Online Webinar: EU Machinery Regulation, AI Act & Required Evidence for January 2027

Session Lead
Dr Don Munasinghe
R&D Lead and Co-founder, RAVASEC Ltd

From 20th January 2027, the EU Machinery Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 applies in full, with AI Act obligations phasing in alongside it. Drafted with autonomous and AI-driven machinery in view, both change what anyone building or operating a robotic system is expected to demonstrate.

This session covers what the incoming regulatory instruments require. From the essential requirements for systems whose controllers can propose their own actions to what evidence actually means in practice, the presentation aims to clarify these and more, along with where UK duties sit alongside the EU regime and which gaps are common in research environments.

It closes with a short demonstration from RAVASEC's own work, showing the same scenario run twice with an identical AI controller, once with an independent runtime safety layer in place and once without.

Over a 60-minute session, Dr Munasinghe will explain the key requirements of the incoming legal framework, the evidence organisations will be expected to maintain, and the most common compliance gaps emerging across the sector.

Dr Munasinghe is R&D Lead and co-founder of RAVASEC Ltd, a UK company building an independent runtime safety layer for AI-driven and humanoid robots, together with the conformity evidence those systems will need under the incoming European machinery and AI regimes. He completed his PhD, "A Semi-Autonomous Real-Time IDPS for Cobots", at the University of West London. That research became ROS-PCon, taken from concept to commercial proposition through Innovate UK's CyberASAP accelerator in 2022-23.

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