murphy labs
Safety & certification for embodied AI

The independent safety & certification layer for embodied AI.

Model alignment made language models trustworthy. Murphy does the equivalent for the physical world. We surface how an embodiment fails before it ships, and turn that into the proof it takes to clear safety, certification, and insurance.

Murphy’s Law: anything that can go wrong, will. In the physical world, it always does. We find it first.
Failure distribution Measured
nominal tail-risk DENSITY OUTCOME SEVERITY →
Most outcomes are nominal. The long tail is where edge cases and failures live.
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Why this must exist

Today’s robots run on AI no one can prove is safe.

Learned policies can’t be inspected, and they fail in the long tail no spec covers. Meanwhile, insurers are carving AI out of liability cover and regulators are forcing self-learning systems into third-party review — against standards that keep changing. Proving safety now takes someone independent who keeps up.

What we do

Find what breaks. Map the standards. Turn it into proof.

Surface failures

Find what breaks, before it ships.

We build the scenarios that break an embodiment, in simulation and on real hardware, and surface the edge cases and failures long before it reaches your floor.

Edge-case library

Failures become training data.

Every failure we surface becomes training data, and we hold the growing library to train from. A small dose of the right edge cases changes deployment outcomes dramatically.

Standards engine

A standards brain that keeps up.

Standards and regulations never stop changing. We hold a deep bank of failure data and heuristics, and backsolve compliance and certification from the rules as they evolve.

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The lift from edge cases

Training on a small dose of the right edge cases lifted real-world task success from 5% to 75% in published results. That library is the asset we build.

The end result: proof that the exact system you’re deploying is safe, certifiable, and insurable.

Who relies on it

Robot makers

Clear the safety, certification and procurement gate, with proof, before go-live.

Operators & 3PLs

Put learned robots near your people with evidence.

Certifiers, insurers & regulators

The independent evidence the emerging bar requires.

Princeton University Built by engineers from Princeton

Alignment you can prove — not hope for.

We’re working with a small number of warehouse-robotics teams. If you build or deploy learned manipulation policies, let’s talk.

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