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The Serious Security Problem Looming Over Robotics

Posted on August 24, 2018 by Spencer Radford
Spencer Radford

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All perfectly normal stuff for a robot鈥攗ntil the machine speaks: 鈥淗ello from the hackers.鈥�

鈥淣o one's really thinking about security on these types of things,鈥� says computer scientist George Clark, who researches robotics and cybersecurity at the University of South Alabama.鈥� 鈥淓veryone's just putting things out there trying to rush to market, especially in a research type of environment. My worry is how this carries over to a more industrial or consumer market.鈥�

Clear across the country at Brown University, researchers have compromised Herb2. They鈥檝e showed how they can scan for internet-connected research robots in labs and take command鈥攚ith the blessing of the robot's owners at the University of Washington, of course.

鈥淲e could read the camera, essentially spying,鈥� says roboticist Stefanie Tellex. 鈥淲e could see where its arms were and they were moving. There was a text-to-speak API so we could have the robot mysteriously talk to you.鈥�

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