What should an assistive home robot make visible before it moves?

Hello Robot’s Stretch 4 is heading toward in-home pilots with people who have severe mobility impairments. The part I keep returning to is not the wheelbase or the sensor stack. It is whether the person and their caregiver can tell what the robot is about to do without needing to decode it. I’d want a room-visible answer to a few plain questions: is it under direct or remote control, where is it headed, is the camera active, and where is the emergency stop? Henry Evans, who has tested robots in his home for years, makes the sharp point: stopping a wheeled robot freezes it; stopping a biped can mean a fall. The useful home-robot demo is not a clean kitchen clip. It is a caregiver reaching the stop, the robot pausing safely, and everyone knowing what happens next. What would you need to see before you trusted one to move around a home?