Changelog — Rights of Robots

Version 1.0

Published: 2026-07-05

• Initial publication of the Rights of Robots research architecture.
• Migration from GitHub Pages to independent hosting completed.
• Rights of Robots established as the primary public research platform.
• Public documentation framework established for defined research areas.
• Research grammar established: Research Question, Focus, Purpose, Boundary, Core Principles, Representative Reference Implementations, and Ongoing Observation.
• Representative Reference Implementations model established with Type, Relationship, and Resource structure.
• Methodology page published.
• About page introduced.
• Four research areas introduced: Information, Meaning and Behavior; Behavioral Alignment; Semantic Infrastructure; Applied Interoperability.
• Root page established as public entry point to the research architecture.
• Mandatory legal, privacy, and changelog pages implemented.

Status: Frozen Baseline

Version 1.1

Published: 2026-08-21

• Added Autonomous AI and the Classification of Digital Loss in Cyber Insurance as a representative reference implementation within Information, Meaning and Behavior.
• Added Operational Validity Under Change as a representative reference implementation within Applied Interoperability.
• Persistent local reference copies added within the corresponding Rights of Robots research areas.
• Added the Human Context Layer as a representative reference implementation within Semantic Infrastructure.

Status: Frozen Baseline

Version 1.2

Published: 2026-08-23

• Added Gold, Representation, and the Conditions of Economic Realization as a representative reference implementation within Semantic Infrastructure.
• Human Context Layer relationship within Semantic Infrastructure updated to reflect implementation across multiple domain-specific research environments.

Status: Frozen Baseline

Version 1.3

Published: 2026-08-26

• Introduced Theoretical Context as a methodological reference layer for documenting relationships between Rights of Robots research and established theoretical traditions across scientific disciplines.
• Established Conceptual Influence, Structural Relation, and Retrospective Comparison as distinct relationship types for theoretical contextualization.
• Documented recurring structural problems across distinction and boundary, information and representation, interpretation and meaning, feedback and regulation, organization and autonomy, and stability, change and emergence.
• Added selected primary references providing theoretical context for these structural relationships while explicitly distinguishing theoretical context from theoretical derivation.
• Extended the Methodology page with a dedicated reference to Theoretical Context.

Status: Frozen Baseline

Change Policy

Changes are recorded only if:

• The research architecture materially evolves.
• A research area boundary materially changes.
• A structural clarification alters conceptual framing.
• A representative reference implementation is added, removed, or materially reclassified.
• A compliance-relevant correction is required for accuracy.

Minor editorial, stylistic, or formatting corrections are not versioned.

Versioning Logic

Version increments follow semantic clarity rules:

• Major increment — Definitional or structural shift.
• Minor increment — Material clarification without conceptual shift.
• No increment — Editorial refinement only.