The standards we design to.
Public standards, so you can check every one. We use NASA’s methods and margins, written for spaceflight, on robots that work on Earth.
Designing or testing to a standard is not certification. Where a test needs a lab, your quote names it. NASA does not endorse SynthDyne, and nothing here says it does.
How we engineer
The process, from requirement to delivery.
- NASA/SP-2016-6105 Rev 2Design method
NASA Systems Engineering Handbook
Requirements first, then design, then verification that each requirement is met.
Every robot
- NPR 7123.1D, Appendix EDesign method
NASA Technology Readiness Levels
How ready a design is, on NASA’s nine-level scale. Your quote states it for your robot.
Every robot
Sizing
How every joint, frame and bolt is sized for the job.
- NASA-STD-5017BDesign method
Design and Development Requirements for Mechanisms
Every motor, belt and gearbox is sized by its torque-margin method, with its higher factors until tested.
YAD joints; YNA7 gimbals, release and winch
- NASA-STD-5001BDesign method
Structural Design and Test Factors of Safety for Spaceflight Hardware
Its factors of safety as a minimum for metal parts, higher for printed and composite ones, and its life factor for fatigue.
Every frame and arm
- NASA-STD-5020BDesign method
Requirements for Threaded Fastening Systems in Spaceflight Hardware
Bolts sized, preloaded and locked against loosening under vibration, by its method.
Every robot, drones most of all
Salt and corrosion
For the Offshore build, and the coast.
- NASA-STD-6012ADesign method
Corrosion Protection for Space Flight Hardware
Finishes, coatings and the pairing of metals.
Offshore and Desert builds
- MSFC-STD-3029ADesign method
Selection of Metallic Materials for Stress Corrosion Cracking Resistance in Sodium Chloride Environments
Which alloys and tempers to use where there is salt.
Offshore build
- ISO 9223:2012Design method
Corrosivity of atmospheres
How corrosive the air on your site is, which tells us the build it needs.
Offshore and coastal sites
Heat, dust, salt and shaking
What the Desert and Offshore builds are tested to.
- MIL-STD-810H, Change 1Tested to, before delivery
Environmental Engineering Considerations and Laboratory Tests
Selected methods: high temperature 501.7, sunshine 505.7 and sand and dust 510.7 for Desert; salt fog 509.8 and humidity 507.6 for Offshore; vibration 514.8 and shock 516.8 for all.
Desert and Offshore builds
- IEC 60529Tested to, before delivery
Degrees of protection provided by enclosures (IP Code)
The dust and water rating. We state the rating we tested, nothing more.
Desert and Offshore builds
- ISO 9227:2022Tested to, before delivery
Corrosion tests in artificial atmospheres: salt spray tests
A screening test for coatings. It does not predict years at sea, and we do not say it does.
Offshore build
Cyber security
How we keep a connected robot yours.
- NIST CSF 2.0Design method
The NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 (NIST CSWP 29)
How our security work is run: govern, identify, protect, detect, respond, recover.
The company, and every robot
- NIST IR 8259 Rev. 1, NIST IR 8259ADesign method
Foundational Cybersecurity Activities for IoT Product Manufacturers, and the IoT Device Cybersecurity Capability Core Baseline
Our checklist for each robot: its identity, settings, data, access, updates and logs.
Every robot
- ETSI EN 303 645Design method
Cyber Security for Consumer Internet of Things: Baseline Requirements
A second checklist: no default passwords, signed software, secure links, few open doors.
Every robot
- NIST SP 800-41 Rev. 1Design method
Guidelines on Firewalls and Firewall Policy
Deny by default, out as well as in: the robot reaches only the servers on its list.
Every robot with a network link
Robot safety
For the arms and the mobile base.
- ISO 12100:2010Design method
Safety of machinery: risk assessment and risk reduction
Hazards identified and reduced by its method, on every arm and the mobile base.
YAD arms and the mobile base
- ISO 10218-1:2025, ISO 10218-2:2025Design method
Robotics: safety requirements for industrial robots and robot cells
Safe design of the arm, and of the cell it works in.
YAD-02 and larger
- ISO 13849-1:2023Design method
Safety-related parts of control systems
Emergency stops and safe-stop circuits, designed to a stated performance level.
YAD-02 and larger, the mobile base
- ISO 3691-4:2023Design method
Driverless industrial trucks and their systems
Safety for robots that drive themselves around a workplace.
The mobile base
- ISO 9283:1998Tested to, before delivery
Manipulating industrial robots: performance criteria and test methods
How we measure an arm’s repeatability and accuracy before we publish either.
Every YAD arm
Flight
For the drones, and the approvals they fly under.
- DCAR-UAS Issue 03For approvals
Dubai Civil Aviation Regulations for UAS operations
Dubai’s categories, and the equipment each asks for: cargo flights carry a parachute, a geofence with flight termination and detect-and-avoid, with evidence of environmental qualification.
Every YNA7
- JARUS SORA 2.5For approvals
Specific Operations Risk Assessment
The risk method behind Dubai’s operation approvals. We prepare the drone’s part of yours.
Every YNA7
- ASTM F3322-24aTested to, before delivery
Standard Specification for Small Unmanned Aircraft System Parachutes
The parachute standard for small drones. Cargo builds are planned to carry one, tested by an independent test agency.
YNA7 Cargo
- ISO 21384-2:2021Design method
Unmanned aircraft systems: UAS components
Quality and safety in the design and manufacture of the aircraft, its links and payloads.
Every YNA7
Batteries
For every pack that ships.
- UN 38.3Asked of our suppliers
UN Manual of Tests and Criteria, lithium batteries
The tests a lithium battery must pass to be shipped at all. Shown by the cell or pack maker’s test summary.
Every battery
- IEC 62133-2, IEC 62619Asked of our suppliers
Safety of lithium cells and batteries, portable and industrial
Portable packs for the drones; industrial packs for the mobile base and larger arms.
Every battery
NASA standards are free to read on NASA’s standards site. ISO, IEC and ASTM standards are sold by their publishers; those links go to their catalogue pages. Editions as checked in November 2026.