(May 7, 2015) To make
cars as safe as possible, we crash them into walls to pinpoint weaknesses and
better protect people who use them.
That’s the idea behind a series of experiments conducted by
a University of Washington engineering team who hacked a next generation teleoperated
surgical robot — one used only for research purposes — to test how easily a
malicious attack could hijack remotely-controlled operations in the future and
to make those systems more secure.