Cobots, sidewalk robots, hospital robots, and automation systems all create a physical relationship with people. That relationship must become measurable.
The governing constraint is the same as it is in transportation: kinetic energy moving through the system must remain within what the surrounding system can tolerate.
Conflict — keeping energy off potential collision paths.
Containment — slowing, redirecting, or stabilizing energy before transfer.
Absorption — dissipating transferred energy before severe injury.
That is why this framework generalizes beyond vehicles. It is not tied to one machine type. It describes a broader physical relationship between people, energy, and system tolerance.
We are entering a decade where machines will share every space people occupy. The relationship between a robot and the person next to it must be measurable — not assumed.
Kinetic Logic provides that measurement.