“There is no isolation once you hack the robot you can disable all kind of safety.”
According to Apa, these vulnerabilities are especially dangerous because human workers have a certain degree of trust working side by side with these robots.
“These type of robots work in the factory alongside people because they are collaborative robots,” he said. “In this case the people trust and they don’t even use helmets.”
Apa said that some of these collaborative robots have enough strength to fracture a human skull.
Source: Hacked Retail Robots Can Assault Customers… | Motherboard