The latest Engadget Podcast dives into 1X's new $20k 'terrifying' home robot, the recent AWS outage, and Apple's rumored OLED plans. If your home assistant looked like it was auditioning for a sci-fi thriller, would you still trust it with your chores?

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https://www.engadget.com/mobile/smartphones/engadget-podcast-would-you-trust-a-terrifying-home-robot-113000179.html?src=rss

The Coming Robot Home Invasion

https://www.andykessler.com/andy_kessler/2025/08/wsj-home-robots.html

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#CyberSecurity #Ecovacs #HomeRobots #Spyware #Surveillance #Hacking: "In an email to Giese on August 16 and shared with TechCrunch, Ecovacs’ Ma mentioned that the researchers’ talk at Def Con “has captured my attention.” That’s why, the email continued, Ma asked the Ecovacs security team to retrieve the correspondence the company had with the researchers. Ma said that the company “inadvertently overlooked” the researchers’ emails from December 2023.

“We have carefully reviewed your points raised in the previous emails and the Demos at Def Con 2024, and conducted an in-depth verification and self-examination,” Ma said, adding that the company will fix issues in two Ecovacs models — the Goat G1 and the X1 — and in the Ecovacs app.

“Your analysis has been greatly valued and appraised by our technical team. Your insights are invaluable in safeguarding the security and integrity of our products, and they contribute significantly to the consumer electronics industry as a whole,” Ma wrote. “Ultimately, it is the general consumers who will benefit most from your dedication.”"

https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/22/ecovacs-says-it-will-fix-bugs-that-can-be-abused-to-spy-on-robot-owners/

#CyberSecurity #Spyware #HomeRobots #Ecovacs #Bluetooth: "The main issue, according to the researchers, is that there is a vulnerability that allows anyone using a phone to connect to and take over an Ecovacs robot via Bluetooth from as far away as 450 feet (around 130 meters). And once the hackers take control of the device, they can connect to it remotely because the robots themselves are connected via Wi-Fi to the internet.

“You send a payload that takes a second, and then it connects back to our machine. So this can, for example, connect back to a server on the internet. And from there, we can control the robot remotely,” said Giese. “We can read out to Wi-Fi credentials, we can read out all the [saved room] maps. We can, because we’re sitting on the operation of the robot’s Linux operating system. We can access cameras, microphones, whatever.”"

https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/09/ecovacs-home-robots-can-be-hacked-to-spy-on-their-owners-researchers-say/

A Humanoid Robot may be yours for as little as $16,000.

See here - https://techchilli.com/robotics/a-humanoid-robot-may-be-yours-for-as-little-as-16000/

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