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In one of its kind accident involving two ‘smart’ robots, a Tesla S autonomous car hit and destroyed a Promobot v4 robot in Las Vegas where CES 2019 is undergoing. Promobot v4 is an autonomous robot designed with the intent of placing them as administrators, hostesses, museum guides, concierges and consultants. These autonomous robots can […]
The manufacturer has solved two of the five reported errors; three patches are in the process of being released Telepresence robots manufactured by the company Vecna Technologies can be hacked using a set of five vulnerabilities, as reported by experts in digital forensicsfrom the International Institute of Cyber Security. Vulnerabilities can be combined to allow an […]
Robotics is almost everywhere, and it is not surprising to see a team of six teenage girls has created a robot that will be fighting in the FIRST Global Challenge to take place in Washington DC in mid-July. But things have changed since the team’s visa application has been rejected by US authorities. Visa denied, […]
IT security researchers at Trend Mirco demonstrated [PDF] how factory/industrial robots could be hacked and used for malicious purposes by threat actors – The demonstration centers around the security flaws in Internet of Things (IoT) devices and how they require emergency security implementations. The robots in question are manufactured by forums like ABB, Kawasaki, Fanuc and Yaskawa. T. The […]
Uber to launch self-driving cars in Pittsburgh This Month — You can take a ride for absolutely free! What comes to mind when people talk about self-driving or driverless cars? Google? Tesla? or Hacking them? That’s great but how about Uber for a change? Yes, Uber is working on driverless cars that will take over the roads in PA […]
Knightscope robot knocked down a 16-month old boy at Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto, CA! A 16-month old boy was knocked down by a 5′ tall and 300 pounds Knightscope security robot at the Stanford Shopping Center. The parents of injured Harwin Cheng are not happy and worried that the robot can hit others as well. It […]
These small and agile drones have been designed to kill might be devastating for us and we could be left “utterly defenceless” says a leading American computer scientist. Killer drones are the supposed “endpoint” of the ongoing techno march towards the Laws/lethal autonomous weapons systems, claims Professor Stuart Russell. Two programmes commissioned by the US […]
University of Washington in Seattle’s research team managed to hijack a tele-operated surgical robot. This exposed major security vulnerabilities in machines that are eventually going to replace surgeons in hospitals all over the world. Telesurgical procedures have been performed by doctors since 2001 after a New York based surgeon removed a patient’s gall bladder successfully […]
A tech-firm has amazed the world with its proof-of-demonstration of a remote-controlled “stun copter” that can deliver 80,000 volts of electricity to a hapless target, at the South by Southwest Interactive festival, Austin, Texas, giving an idea how terrifying the consumer grade personal drones can be. The drone, an invention of the Chaotic Moon Studios—an […]