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> The article doesn't directly talk about robot-to-human violence,

This one does: https://takeonme.org/gcves/GCVE-1337-2025-000000000000000000...

> Imagine a scenario where one robot is placed in range of a sufficiently motivated attacker, such as a hostage situation or a bomb defusing (both being reported uses of Unitree robots). The attacker could take complete control of the robot, then walk the robot toward other similarly vulnerable robots, and automatically place those robots under the attacker’s control as soon as they’re in range of the Patient Zero robot.

> Robots compromised in this way can endanger the lives, health, and property of their authorized operators and bystanders, as well as serve as traditional bastion hosts for more subtle surveillance or further pure-cyber attacks, for less violently-minded attackers.





Imagine a ransomware that makes your household robot put you in a chokehold physically until you pay.



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