"Imagine botnets in physical form and you've got a pretty good idea of what could go wrong with the influx of AI-infused humanoid robots expected to integrate into society over the next few decades. Morgan Stanley recently predicted robot revenue could surpass $5 trillion by 2050, and firms including Unitree Robotics, Agility Robotics, and Engineered Art, along with major carmakers including BMW, Toyota, Tesla, and Hyundai (which also owns Boston Dynamics), are all developing humanoid robots."
"As such, building security into these robots "is imperative," Joseph Rooke, risk insights director at Recorded Future's Insikt Group, told The Register. With 3 billion of these robots in use by 2060, according to BofA Global Research's forecast, the worst-case scenario from a security perspective would be "an I, Robot situation with no coming back," Rooke said in an interview."
AI-infused humanoid and quadruped robots are set for widespread use across battlefields, law enforcement, laboratories, warehouses, and manufacturing, with revenue projections exceeding $5 trillion by 2050 and forecasts of up to 3 billion units by 2060. Known vulnerabilities can include hardcoded cryptographic keys, trivial authentication bypasses, and unsanitized command injection in configuration interfaces. Such flaws can enable wormable compromises that spread between robots within Bluetooth Low Energy range, creating the potential for physical botnets and large-scale harm. Immediate integration of security and the emergence of a dedicated robot-security industry are likely and necessary.
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