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Anyone Within Bluetooth Range Can Take Over This Humanoid Robot — and America's Robot Ban Doesn't Reach the Ones Already Here
Security researcher Olivier Laflamme published two CVEs on August 27 showing that a person within Bluetooth range of a Unitree G1 humanoid — no pairing, no password — can gain root control of the computer that runs its motors, cameras, microphones and collision detection. The decisive flaw was an authorization check Unitree's cloud never performed, and a compromised robot can attack other robots nearby. It lands a month after the FCC put foreign advanced robotic devices on its Covered List, a rule that blocks new models from authorization but explicitly leaves already-authorized robots free…
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