CRII: SaTC: Towards Securing Social Robots

机器人技术传统上专注于工业和医疗应用，直到最近才开发出被称为社交机器人的机器人，这些机器人旨在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，随着未来十年社交机器人在家庭、办公室和日常生活中的广泛使用，保护我们的隐私和确保社交机器人的安全将成为社会挑战的重点。 该研究项目涉及社交机器人的网络安全，其漏洞和风险。该项目有四个主要目标：（1）通过关注用于编程这些机器人的工具，其传感器和执行器，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被破坏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;（4）分析社交机器人的安全漏洞。以及（4）研究社交机器人的隐私和可用性问题。此外，马奎特大学还计划为威斯康星州东南部的学生和教师举办一个关于网络安全的夏令营，其中包括关于机器人技术，特别是社交机器人的隐私和安全的特别会议。

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.