Researchers at IOActive have found nearly 50 vulnerabilities in industrial collaborative robots, machines that work side-by-side with people in manufacturing and other settings, that can be abused to possibly cause physical harm to workers, or even configured to spy on their surroundings.
The machines can be remotely tampered with to alter safety configurations that prevent them from operating outside a designated safety boundary, for example. Others that have built-in cameras and microphones can also be accessed and used for commercial espionage.
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