Humanoid Robot Constitution Runtime for Governing Physical AI Operating System Execution

A humanoid robot constitution runtime governs proposed humanoid robot operations before propagation into lower execution layers. A humanoid robot includes sensors, actuators, processors, and memory storing a machine-readable constitution defining constitutional provisions, authority domains, and persona constraints. A constitutional runtime associated with a Physical Artificial Intelligence Operating System (PAIOS) receives a proposed humanoid operation from an application, planner, behavior tree, large language model, vision-language-action model, operator interface, or other source. The constitutional runtime determines applicable authority domains and persona constraints, evaluates the proposed operation against the machine-readable constitution, resolves conflicts where applicable, and generates a constitutional enforcement output. The constitutional enforcement output may permit, deny, modify, route, or condition the proposed operation before the operation is propagated to a ROS2 middleware pathway, validation layer, actuation-dispatch trust layer, actuator firewall, driver, or actuator controller.