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Teleoperated robots are playing an increasingly important role in military and medical services. In the future, remotely operated surgical robots likely be used in more scenarios such as battlefields and emergency. But rapidly growing applications of teleoperated surgery raise the; what if the computer systems for these robots are attacked, taken and even turned into weapons? Our work seeks to answer this question by analyzing possible cyber security attacks against Raven II, an teleoperated robotic surgery system. We identify a slew of possible security threats, and experimentally evaluate their scopes and impacts. demonstrate the ability to maliciously control a wide range of robots, and even to completely ignore or override command inputs from the. We further find that it is possible to abuse the robot's existing stop (E-stop) mechanism to execute efficient (single packet) attacks. then consider steps to mitigate these identified attacks, and experimentally the feasibility of applying the existing security solutions against threats. The broader goal of our paper, however, is to raise awareness increase understanding of these emerging threats. We anticipate that the of attacks against telerobotic surgery will also be relevant to other robotic and co-robotic systems.
Bonaci et al. (Thu,) studied this question.