# LrrK Kinematic Consumer Risk Bulletin **LRRK Watch / Open-Source Intelligence** — Signals across consumer systems that sense, move, and act in homes and yards. **Issue type.** Monthly filing. | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Window | 1–29 February 2012 | | Collection cutoff | 29 February 2012 | | Platform | Quiet Systems | | Data label | Open-source intelligence // LRRK analytic product // monthly filing | | Handling | Public-source material. Image rights require separate verification before publication. | | Scope | Consumer kinematic electronics only (home, yard, companion, educational). | | Classes in frame | Robot vacuums / mop combos · robotic lawn mowers · window-cleaning robots · pool-cleaning robots · robot pets / companion animals · social / desk companions · educational / programmable kits · robotic litter boxes · security / home patrol robots · consumer robotic arms · elder-care / assistive companions · kitchen / food-prep robots · toy / entertainment robots · niche outdoor / garden robots · emerging general-purpose or humanoid home robots | | Spine | CPSC, Health Canada, EU RAPEX (2012 name; later Safety Gate), UK, manufacturer recall pages, named newsrooms, dockets. | | Color | Message boards, consumer forums, and Reddit — annotated context only. Never Fact without a reputable primary. | ## Executive read ### BLUF February’s consumer kinematic file is a control text, not an injury. IEC publishes 60335-2-107:2012 on 21 February — the first particular-requirements standard for robotic battery lawn mowers. No official recall. No named injury. ### Key judgments 1. **[Assessment — High confidence]** IEC Webstore and BSI date IEC 60335-2-107:2012, edition 1.0, to 21 February 2012. Scope is robotic battery rotary mowers ≤75 V d.c.; ride-on and pedestrian machines are out. 2. **[Assessment — High confidence]** The text is not a RAPEX alert and not a CPSC or Health Canada recall. Machines manufactured before 21 February 2012 are outside its applicability clause. 3. **[Inference — Moderate confidence]** Automower-class machines are already in EU yards; a new particular-requirements number is not a finding that those yards emptied. ### Analytic labels - **Fact** — verified reporting or primary record - **Assessment** — analytic judgment - **Inference** — reasoned but not directly observed - **Uncertainty** — unresolved information gap ### Source grades - **A1** — authoritative primary record / directly confirmed - **B1–B2** — generally reliable and corroborated - **C3** — useful but requires caution (typical for forums) --- ## 01. IEC 60335-2-107:2012 — first particular-requirements standard for robotic battery lawn mowers *Event / publication dates: 21 February 2012 (IEC Webstore; BSI Knowledge)* **Product class.** Robotic lawn mowers **Verified record — [Fact — A1]** On 21 February 2012 the International Electrotechnical Commission published IEC 60335-2-107:2012, edition 1.0, *Household and similar electrical appliances — Safety — Part 2-107: Particular requirements for robotic battery powered electrical lawnmowers* (TC 116; ICS 65.060.70; ISBN 978-2-88912-895-2; 144 pages). The document “deals with the safety of robotic battery powered electrical rotary lawnmowers with the rated voltage of the battery being not more than 75 V d.c. charged by mains electrical and/or solar power.” It “does not apply to non-robotic machines such as lawn trimmers, lawn edge trimmers, lawn edgers, ride-on lawnmowers or pedestrian controlled lawnmowers.” Common hazards for home or similar use; battery requirements point at IEC 62133; EMC and environmental hazards except noise are out of scope. The applicability clause: “This International Standard is not applicable to machines, which are manufactured before the date of publication of this document by IEC.” To be read with IEC 60335-1:2001. [IEC Webstore](https://webstore.iec.ch/en/publication/1527); [BSI Knowledge, published 21 Feb 2012](https://knowledge.bsigroup.com/products/household-and-similar-electrical-appliances-safety-particular-requirements-for-robotic-battery-powered-electrical-lawnmowers). This is not a recall, not a RAPEX weekly-report alert, and not a named injury file. It is the first IEC particular-requirements text for this class. **Threat landscape.** A yard machine that moves and cuts without an operator on the handles. The physical harms in scope for a particular-requirements standard are laceration, lift/tilt access to the blade, and battery/charger faults. The control change is a written test fabric for machines built on or after 21 February 2012; pre-publication inventory is expressly outside the clause. **Forum / community notes.** - none found. **Intelligence assessment.** [Assessment — High confidence] Publication date, title, 75 V d.c. cap, and exclusion of ride-on / walk-behind are as the IEC page writes them. [Inference — Moderate confidence] Existing Automower / Robomow / LawnBott inventory already in yards is not pulled by this text. [Uncertainty] National adoptions and RAPEX citations of this edition are unpublished this month. **Opportunity.** A RAPEX weekly report that cites 60335-2-107 against a named robotic-mower SKU, or a CPSC / Health Canada robotic-mower page. **LRRK relevance.** Control Fabric and Passport (first written particular requirements for a consumer yard robot). Watch: first dated alert that uses the number. Lab: lift/tilt and blade-access tests. **Confidence.** High on the 21 February publication and the scope sentence. Moderate on how fast national bodies will cite it. Low on in-yard inventory that predates the clause. --- ## Forward indicators 1. Any RAPEX weekly report that names a robotic lawn mower and cites IEC 60335-2-107. 2. Any CPSC / Health Canada robot-vac or robotic-mower action. 3. Any official iRobot Roomba, Mint, or Neato safety action. 4. First dated consumer-home companion SKU or safety action (a hospital kiosk is not a home SKU). 5. Any brand-named robotic-mower pediatric case. > **Collection integrity.** One signal graduated — a standard, not a recall. **Excluded:** ride-on / walk-behind mower files (out of class by the standard’s own sentence). No February CPSC robot-vac or robotic-mower numbered page. No RAPEX robotic-mower weekly-report ID this month. No CPSC Roomba / Mint / Neato / Scooba numbered page dated 2012. No Health Canada in-class consumer-robot action dated 2012. No RAPEX robotic-mower weekly-report ID dated 2012 located. **Killed / not imported:** invented Roomba CPSC recall; CPSC 08-256 LawnBott (25 April 2008); RAPEX A12/1406/14 Biltema LMR24 (12 September 2014); CPSC 20-115 Modular Robotics (30 April 2020); Health Canada RA-74597 iRobot Clean Base (21 December 2020); Husqvarna Automower AWD fire (Health Canada 2021 / CPSC 22-727, 17 February 2022); Honda Miimo 2024 sensor recall; EN 50636-2-107:2015 and A1:2018 (later-year European adoptions). Forum empty. *LRRK — security assurance for systems that sense, move, and act.*

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