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The case for robot cybersecurity

Robots are the most critical cybersecurity frontier.

A compromised server leaks data. A compromised robot can kill — it welds, lifts, drives, or operates on a patient. Security flaws become safety risks in robotics. Below, we quantify how fast that frontier is widening, using the world's robot-vulnerability records.

548
robot vulnerabilities aggregated
RVD · NVD · EUVD · CISA KEV
298
rated high or critical severity
CVSS / RVSS
267
with an assigned CVE identifier
cve.org
14
landmark robot hacks (2017–2026)
see Milestones

Robot vulnerabilities over time

New disclosures per year (bars) and the cumulative total (line), aggregated across sources.

Sources: RVD, NVD (robot keywords) & EUVD — 548 records, deduplicated by CVE.

Severity distribution

Robot vulnerabilities by CVSS / RVSS severity band.

Severity from source metadata (NVD CVSS, RVD RVSS, EUVD base score).

Coverage by source

This lab does not rely on any single database — it fuses several, the way zerodayclock.com does for IT, but focused on robots.

RVD (github.com/aliasrobotics/rvd) · NVD (nvd.nist.gov) · EUVD (euvd.enisa.europa.eu) · CISA KEV cross-referenced.

Why robots are different

In IT, the worst case is data loss. In robotics, the worst case is a machine that hurts someone. Robots fuse IT, OT and IoT attack surfaces and add actuation, so the same bug class carries far more consequence — which is why we treat every robot security flaw as a safety defect.

See Reviewing the status of robot cybersecurity, Safety requires security in robotics, and the Milestones of how the threat escalated.

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