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Robots capabilities continue to expand rapidly and are increasingly deployed across accelerator facilities to perform emergency response, predictive maintenance and inspection tasks. As robotic systems become an integral part of machine maintenance and safety concepts, the robot itself is shifting from an external tool to a critical element of the machine infrastructure. The reliability of the robots themselves therefore directly affects the availability of the accelerator it serves.
This talk examines how robot reliability requirements can be derived from accelerator availability targets and how failure modes in robotic systems propagate into machine downtime. We present the trade-offs between capability and reliability in robot design and their effects on accelerator availability. From this, we present implications for future machines such as the Future Circular Collider (FCC), where robotic interventions are expected to play an even larger role in maintaining machine availability.