Humans First. American Innovation.
Building a safer future for humanoid robotics in America.
By Raoul Shah
Safe humanoid robotics in America.
SafeHumanoids is an initiative of AutoWrap Robotics and AutoWrap AI dedicated to showcasing and advancing the development of safe humanoid robotics in America. The initiative focuses on human-robot interaction, environmental awareness, intelligent safety, validation, and responsible deployment of humanoid systems alongside people.
Mission
Advance American innovation in humanoid robotics by developing and showcasing technologies that enable intelligent machines to operate more safely and responsibly alongside people.
American invention and engineering
The work behind the initiative is American-invented and American-engineered: four issued United States patents, and the control software written against them.
Human-centered by design
Supervised autonomy, bounded work zones, human-presence detection and an operator who can stop the machine at any moment — enforced in the software, not just described.
Responsible development
What is built and what is not is stated plainly, including the stages that have not been completed on production hardware.
One ecosystem, three parts.
SafeHumanoids is not a separate company. It is a dedicated initiative within the AutoWrap technology ecosystem, created to focus attention on the safety question that the humanoid era turns on.
The issued patent portfolio and the physical automation it describes — surface treatment, vehicle lighting, service centre orchestration. autowraprobotics.com →
The control platform: perception, planning, execution and inspection, built to run on robots it does not have to own. autowrap.ai →
Safe humanoid robotics in America — the technologies, engineering and safety systems needed for humanoid robots to work responsibly alongside people. By Raoul Shah.
Why it exists.
SafeHumanoids was created by Raoul Shah as an initiative within the AutoWrap Robotics and AutoWrap AI ecosystem to focus attention on one of the defining challenges of the humanoid era: enabling intelligent machines to operate safely alongside people. America is entering the humanoid robotics era, and the question of how these machines behave around people is being decided now, in the engineering.
Four issued U.S. patents. Verifiable on the public record.
Every number below can be checked against USPTO or Google Patents. All four are granted — not applications, not provisionals, not pending.
| Patent | Title | Filed | Issued | Claims |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. 12,643,243 B1App. 19/260,568 | AI platform for automated vehicle surface treatment using humanoid robots Robotic application of paint protection film, vinyl wrap, ceramic coating, window tint and graphics — to vehicles, watercraft, and building window surfaces. | 6 Jul 2025 | 2 Jun 2026 | 10 · system |
| U.S. 12,649,240 B1App. 19/266,236 | AI-led platform for automated vehicle treatment using humanoid robots Adaptive robotic installation and servicing of vehicle lighting — headlights, tail lights, fibre-optic headliners and underbody strips — in confined, variable conditions. | 11 Jul 2025 | 9 Jun 2026 | 15 · system + method |
| U.S. 12,511,598 B1 | Humanoid AI for autonomous vehicle service centres A central AI orchestrating a humanoid fleet across a facility: explainable diagnostics for ICE, EV and software-defined vehicles, task re-allocation, digital twins, geofenced zones. Dependent claims reach high-voltage EV handling, and humanoids that drive a vehicle into a bay and schedule charging against grid demand and electricity pricing. | 10 Jul 2025 | 30 Dec 2025 | 20 · system, method, CRM |
| U.S. 12,507,946 B1 | AI-driven dermatological imaging and predictive simulation platform An adjacent, separable asset applying the same imaging-to-forecast lineage outside mobility. Available for licence independently of the robotics set. | 23 Aug 2025 | 30 Dec 2025 | method |
Named on the face of all four patents
West Palm Beach, Florida — address of record at filing
Now based in Virginia
Scope. Nothing on this site is legal advice — counterparties should have their own IP counsel review claim scope before any agreement.
The claims, reduced to working software.
The portfolio is not a paper position. Each patent has a corresponding control platform you can run right now in a browser — the orchestration logic, visualised. Open one and watch it work.
Operations Control Tower
The whole autonomous operation in one view: a central AI orchestrating a fleet of arms, gantries, mobile units and humanoids through the Scan → Plan → Apply → quality control → corrective-action pipeline, across vehicles, marine hulls and building glazing — with live digital-twin metrics, geofenced zones, and automatic task re-allocation when a unit drops offline.
Spans the three robotics patents · 12,511,598 · 12,643,243 · 12,649,240Autonomous Service Centers
A central AI coordinates a fleet of humanoids to run a whole service center — intake, Explainable-AI diagnostics (including EV/SDV), repair, quality control, and customer handoff.
U.S. Patent 12,511,598 B1Autonomous Surface Treatment
Robots apply paint protection film, ceramic coating, vinyl wrap, tint, and graphics via real-time 3D surface mapping, automated multi-tool switching, machine-vision defect detection, and fleet learning.
U.S. Patent 12,643,243 B1Vehicle Lighting Treatment
A humanoid services vehicle lighting in tight cabins, dynamically adapting its posture, motion path, and care to sensed conditions — remove, install, align, restore, and inspect.
U.S. Patent 12,649,240 B1How companies work with us.
We are a licensor. The portfolio and the software behind it are available to companies who want to apply them in their own products, lines or service networks — structured to fit how you actually operate. Structures below are starting points for discussion, not an offer of terms.
Field-of-use licence
A licence to practise the claims within a defined application, territory and term — the usual route where you already have manufacturing or service operations to apply it to.
- Scoped by application, not the whole portfolio
- Exclusive or non-exclusive within the field
- Running royalty or fixed-fee structures
Joint development
We adapt the control platform to your robot, your material and your process, with the resulting work product and any improvements allocated up front.
- Integration onto your chosen robot platform
- Process tuning for your film, coating or component
- Defined ownership of improvements and new filings
Multi-field or portfolio licence
A licence spanning several fields of use, or the portfolio as a whole, for a licensee whose operations cross more than one application. Outright assignment of the portfolio is also available — see licensing & acquisition.
- Several fields under one agreement
- Software and simulation assets included
- Direct support from the named inventor
Issued claims, not applications
Four granted U.S. patents with verifiable numbers, filing dates and grant dates — the position exists today.
Working control software
The orchestration logic runs now: browser platforms and a ROS 2 / Gazebo simulation package, not slideware.
Robot-agnostic integration
The claims recite humanoid, articulated-arm, gantry and mobile platforms. Swapping the robot is configuration, not a rewrite.
Recorded evidence
Thirty-five recorded simulation runs, each captioned with the claim element it exercises. Watch them →
Direct inventor support
Raoul Shah is the named inventor on all four patents and works with licensees directly — on site in the United States for integration and process tuning, and remotely thereafter. Scope and duration are set per agreement.
One AI brain. Any robot. Safety at every step.
The control platform runs in simulation today, behind a hardware-abstraction layer written so the same behaviour can drive a physical robot without rewriting it. It has not yet driven one. Validating in simulation before anything moves a motor is the point of the layer, and the physical stage is still ahead.
Sense & model
Cameras and depth sensors build a real-time 3D model of the vehicle and workspace.
Plan & adapt
The AI plans the task and adapts posture, motion, and parameters to conditions.
Act, supervised
The robot executes within safety-rated limits, monitored, with instant human stop.
Verify & log
Machine-vision QC verifies the work; every decision is explainable and audit-logged.
The SafeHumanoids Framework.
Autonomy near people and property demands more than capability — it demands trust. Every platform is engineered to a safety framework aligned with recognized U.S. and international standards, and enforced in the software itself.
Hardware safety & E-stop
Emergency stop, safety-rated monitored stop, and force/speed limiting. The robot stops on any fault, first.
Supervised autonomy
Human-in-the-loop by default. Operators can pause, override, or stop at any moment.
Geofencing & presence
Work zones are bounded; human-presence detection slows or halts motion in the cell.
Explainable & auditable AI
Every diagnosis and action traces to its inputs and is recorded in a tamper-evident log.
Cybersecurity & privacy
RBAC, signed updates, encrypted telemetry, real-time PII anonymization, and U.S. data handling.
Built for the USA
Designed for American shops and workers, with a compliance roadmap to U.S. safety requirements.
In plain terms: SafeHumanoids is early-stage. These standards define the framework our systems are engineered to and our active compliance roadmap — they are design targets and a path to certification, not claims of completed third-party certification. We publish this because trust starts with transparency.
What is built, and what is not.
Stated plainly, because a licensee's engineers will establish it in the first technical call anyway.
Issued IP + control software
Four granted U.S. patents. The orchestration logic runs in browser platforms and a ROS 2 / Gazebo simulation package, with automated tests in continuous integration.
Hardware-in-the-loop
Driving a physical robot through the hardware-abstraction layer. This is the stage a licensee or development partner enters at; it has not been completed on production hardware.
Unattended autonomy
Production-grade unsupervised service. Multi-year research — the direction the portfolio protects, not a current capability.
Issued IP, working software, and a clear way to license it.
If your company applies films, coatings or lighting to vehicles, vessels or buildings — or builds the robots that do — there is a defined way to work with this portfolio. Technical and commercial questions are both welcome.
Three modules. One platform.
Each module is backed by its own issued U.S. patent and is written to drive commercially available robotic platforms. A licence is granted per module and per field of use, not across the whole portfolio.
AI-driven software that controls robotic platforms to apply paint protection film, vinyl wraps, ceramic coatings, window tint, custom graphics and decals on vehicles, watercraft and building glazing — with real-time 3D surface mapping, automated defect detection and self-correcting application. No proprietary hardware required.
Autonomous installation and servicing of vehicle lighting — starlight LED fibre-optic headliners, exterior underglow, and functional lighting. This patent contains the portfolio’s only ordered method claim: scan, plan, transport and prepare, install, route and verify wiring, then quality-control and correct.
The autonomous vehicle service centre control layer. A centralised AI module orchestrates a fleet of humanoid robots across service centre functions — customer check-in, multi-modal diagnostics including EV and software-defined vehicles from model year 2005 onwards, repair, parts logistics, premises upkeep and customer communication.
Scope, pricing and terms are set per agreement. Nothing here is an offer, a licence, or legal advice. The demonstrations linked above are physics simulations, watermarked as such — not recordings of a real robot.