Industry News | 10.06.25
Robots Prone to Privacy Leaks
By NAMSS Staff
Waterloo News (09/22/25) Punithan, Mayuri
Researchers at the University of Waterloo in Canada have found that collaborative robots, despite using encryption, are vulnerable to privacy leaks through detectable traffic patterns. The researchers found that by analyzing the timing, frequency, and duration of encrypted commands, attackers could infer sensitive details such as patient conditions in hospitals. Using a Kinova Gen3 robotic arm, the team discovered that signal processing techniques, similar to those in noise-cancelling headphones, identified robot actions with 97% accuracy.
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