Recorded Future warns hacked humanoid robots pose rising security risk

The humanoid robot boom is often framed as a labor story, but this piece forces you to see it as a cybersecurity and safety story too. Recorded Future treats robots as just another class of networked endpoint—except these endpoints can move, lift and potentially harm people. Real‑world flaws in Unitree platforms and examples of robots quietly exfiltrating data to overseas servers show that the attack surface is no longer limited to your phone or router. As companies like Tesla and Chinese startups pour frontier models into bipedal bodies, the line between AI compromise and physical compromise gets very thin. ([fierce-network.com](https://www.fierce-network.com/cloud/hacked-humanoid-robots-are-emerging-security-threat-report))

For the race to AGI, the implication is that powerful embodied systems will trigger a different regulatory reflex than text‑only models did. If policymakers begin to see humanoids as dual‑use infrastructure—workforce multiplier and potential weapon—they are more likely to demand hard security guarantees, certification regimes, and maybe even geo‑fencing of capabilities. That could slow the unconstrained deployment of the most capable models into physical platforms, even as purely digital agents race ahead. It also suggests a new power center: whoever controls the telco‑grade monitoring and control planes for fleets of robots will have tremendous leverage over how safely physical AI scales.