World ID Comes to Robots, Letting a Delivery Machine Check Whether You Are a Human

For thirty years the working assumption behind almost every system on the internet was that the thing on the other end was a person. In 2024 that assumption stopped being true, and it has not been true since. World and peaq made World ID available to robots and machines running peaqOS, through robotic.sh. A machine can now request and verify a World ID proof, confirming that it is dealing with a real and unique human and, where the interaction calls for it, that the person completing an action is the same person who started it. The machine receives a proof. It does not receive a name, a face or anything else.

The mechanism is a zero-knowledge proof presented through World App, a wallet built by project contributor Tools for Humanity, and the notable commercial detail is that machines running peaqOS can perform the check natively, without...

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