Analysts warn of cybersecurity risks in humanoid robots

A quiet economic subsector is emerging around humanoid robots, and it’s already experiencing a variety of cybersecurity challenges.

In case large language models (LLMs) don’t wipe out enough jobs, organizations in the US and Asia are currently working toward replacing manual laborers too, with machines that look and move like people but won’t demand wages. Fortune tellers at Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and elsewhere are projecting that humanoid robots are inevitably going to get cheaper to manufacture over time — though you can already buy a Unitree R1 today for $5,000 — and that, as a result, somewhere between tens of thousands to hundreds of millions of them could be in the world by 2050.

Joseph Rooke, director of risk insights at Recorded Future’s Insikt Group, points out that “nations are clearly watching this space. Just look at China’s latest 15th Five-Year Plan. It specifically calls out ’embodied AI’ as a sector it wants to lead in.” 

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