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James Bentley

Horrible news: exploit found in Humanoid robots capable of 'creating a robot botnet that spreads without user intervention' over Bluetooth

Unitree R1.

The only thing more haunting than a robot that can hack other robots is a robot that can hack other robots, which can also walk. An author claims that humanoid robots from manufacturer Unitree are vulnerable to an exploit that embeds "themselves on the devices and then infect the next devices in range", and it's estimated to affect the entire new generation product line.

This is all according to Andreas Makris, aka Bin4ryDigit on X, and Kevin Finisterre (via Hackaday). They have a GitHub page going over their findings, as well as their attempts to reach out to Unitree. Bin4ryDigit claims UniPwn (the exploit) is "the first public exploit of humanoid robots".

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