The Serious Security Problem Looming Over Robotics
They call it Herb2. It\u2019s a dapper robot, wearing a bowtie even while it sits at home in its lab at the University of Washington. Its head is a camera, which it cranes up and down, taking in the view of a dimly lit corner where two computer monitors sit. All perfectly normal stuff for a robot\u2014until the machine speaks: \u201cHello from the hackers.\u201d Clear across the country at Brown University, researchers have compromised Herb2.