Machine identity
A federated, mutually recognized registry tying every deployed unit to its manufacturer, operator, insurer, and jurisdiction.
2026
Registered & timestamped
Humanoid robots have their standards bodies. They have no ICAO.
I am Prof. Mitar Marinović. I design institutions and advise the people who run them. My craft is synthesis: connecting technology, governance, culture, and capital into initiatives, global and local.
My current mission is the treaty layer for embodied intelligence.
About
Belgrade · Dubai · New York
I am a professor and the Rector of Metropolitan University in Belgrade, Serbia, born in Herceg Novi, Bay of Kotor, Montenegro.
I design institutions and advise governments, cultural organizations, and the people who lead them across the EU, USA, UAE, and the Western Balkans.
I read early signals for a living: where technology and society are heading, and what will need to exist by the time they arrive. Then I build it, with partners, across borders, one initiative at a time. The registry of what that produces is further down this page.
When I am not building, advising or lecturing, I write.
What I Do
Three practices
For institutions
Institutional Advisory
For governments, cultural institutions, and bodies working on the governance of emerging technologies. Strategic foresight, institution design, international positioning, and the development of landmark projects. Engagements are structured individually and begin with a conversation.
For audiences
Lectures & Keynotes
Talks and executive sessions on strategic foresight, the governance of emerging technologies, and institution design, for governments, universities, and leadership teams.
For individuals
In Private
One conversation, ninety minutes, in confidence. For founders and leaders whose metrics work while something essential has gone quiet. You will be talking with a man who went through his own rebuilding and kept notes.
The motion, the act of releasing this energy outwards, is its own reward.Mitar Marinović, Zelenika, essay
The Paper
Public working paperThe Governance Gap: Why Humanoid Robotics Needs Its Chicago Convention
Technical standards for humanoid robots exist and are fragmenting along national lines. The paper argues that four functions, machine identity, mutual recognition of certification, distributed emergency control, and evaluation of embodied intelligence, can only come from a treaty-level institution, and that the window for convening one is two to three years.
SHA-256 · authorship timestamped on the Bitcoin blockchain · © 2026 Mitar Marinović
The Embodied Intelligence Coalition
Coalition in formationThe Coalition convenes a proposed intergovernmental institution, the Universal Intelligent Robotics Authority, that would do for humanoid robots, bipeds, quadrupeds, and every machine that thinks and acts what ICAO did for aviation: adopt proven technical standards by reference and give them binding force across signatory markets. Four functions define the mandate. The Coalition's home is embodiedcoalition.org.
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Mutual recognition
One certification, valid in every signatory market: a legal act between states, on the precedent of Article 33 of the Chicago Convention.
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Distributed emergency control
A common hardware-level shutdown protocol whose activation keys remain in national custody.
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Evaluation of embodied intelligence
Behavioral evaluation of the model controlling each unit, re-tested after every material update, as a condition of deployment.
References
Registry · selected- DubaiMuseum of the FutureCreative development of the landmark.
- Abu DhabiNatural History MuseumCreative development of the institution.
- Boka BayThe Ocean Race Europe · Grand Finale 2025Directed the event's arrival in Montenegro.
- Herceg NoviLightseed Technologies · The Future Carbon Fibre Hub of EuropeFounder. Advanced, automated composite manufacturing, timed to EU accession.
- MontenegroFuture Technologies InstituteFounder. A two-wing institute: the Future Technologies Academy, training the advanced-manufacturing workforce, and the Advanced Materials Lab, researching carbon nanotubes.
- BelgradeMetropolitan University · RectorAcademic leadership, pro bono.
Writing
Archives of the Future SelfI write essays on institutions, memory, and frequency harmonization, as well as short stories. A novel is on its way: XII Empires.
Contact
CorrespondenceWrite for institutional matters, editorial requests, or a private conversation.