Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) have moved from pilot projects to everyday infrastructure. You’ll now see them in supermarkets and DIY stores, airports, schools, hospitals, and logistics hubs, quietly mapping aisles, verifying that tasks were completed, and helping teams do more with less. I often get asked by data protection officers and operations leaders a simple but important question: where does all of the robot data go, and who has access to it?

It’s a fair question and the right place to start. When intelligent machines operate in public and semi-public spaces, privacy and safety aren’t a ‘stage two’ consideration; they’re the precondition for adoption. In my role overseeing data security, privacy, and trust at Brain Corp (the autonomy platform behind more than 40,000 commercial AMRs globally) I’ve learned that trust is not won with slogans – it is earned through disciplined engineering, transparent processes, and verifiable controls.