CRII: SaTC: Towards Securing Social Robots

机器人学传统上一直专注于工业和医疗应用，直到最近，随着被称为社交机器人的机器人的发展，这种机器人被设计为与人类进行智能和社交互动。关于这些社交机器人的隐私和安全影响的研究很少。此外，随着社交机器人在未来十年内在家庭、办公室和日常生活中的潜在广泛使用，保护我们的隐私和确保广泛使用的社交机器人的安全将是高度社会挑战之一。这项研究项目解决了社交机器人的网络安全、它们的脆弱性和风险。该项目有四个主要目标：(1)通过关注用于对社交机器人、其传感器和执行器进行编程的工具，寻求发现社交机器人的安全漏洞；(2)开发能够检测社交机器人是否已受到危害并违反隐私和安全指令的算法；(3)分析当前社交机器人原型的相关功能；以及(4)调查社交机器人的隐私和可用性问题。此外，威斯康星州东南部的学生和教师计划在马奎特大学举办网络安全夏令营，特别是机器人领域的隐私和安全问题，特别是社交机器人。

Robotics has traditionally focused on industrial and medical applications until recently with the development of robots, known as social robots, that are designed to intelligently and socially interact with humans. There has been little research on the privacy and security implications of these social robots. Moreover, with the potential wide-spread use of social robots in the next decade for the home, office, and daily living activities, high among the societal challenges will be protecting our privacy and ensuring security of social robots in wide-use. This research project addresses the cyber security of social robots, their vulnerabilities and risks. There are four primary objectives of this project: (1) seek to uncover security vulnerabilities of a social robot by focusing on the tools used to program these robots, its sensors and actuators; (2) develop algorithms capable of detecting whether a social robot has been compromised and violated privacy and security directives; (3) analyze relevant capabilities of current social robot prototypes; and, (4) investigate privacy and usability issues of a social robot. In addition, a summer camp at Marquette University on cyber security with special sessions on privacy and security in robotics, and especially social robots, is planned for students and teachers in southeastern Wisconsin.