Home robots can be easily hacked to spy on and attack owners, say researchers

It’s going to be a long time before robots are genuinely useful around the house, but when they get there, we’ll need to be sure they’re safe. A cybersecurity firm has proved this with a new report today demonstrating how to hack a number of popular robots — including Pepper, a humanoid greeting bot built by Japanese company SoftBank.The researchers from Seattle-based IOActive show how the machines can be turned into surveillance devices, sending audio and video of their