Robotics · 1 October 2026 · 4 min read
peaqOS can now ask a machine to prove its chip is real
Verify, the sixth peaqOS function, checks a secure-element signature against the manufacturer’s certificates and ties that result to the machine’s identity.
peaq said on 1 October that peaqOS Verify is live. The check is specific. The machine’s secure chip signs a challenge. peaqOS compares that signature with the chip maker’s certificate chain. Separately, peaq says it verifies the business operating the machine. Both results are written against the machine’s existing onchain identity, so a lender, insurer or another machine can read them without a login to the manufacturer.
This is the part of robotics that does not photograph well, and it is the part that decides whether a fleet record is usable. A rating, a dataset and a payout are only as strong as the certainty that the machine named in them is the machine that did the work. A row in a vendor’s database does not answer that for an outsider.