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Security researchers find Pepper robot lacks basic authentication/security controls
S1 · 29 May 2018 · SoftBank Robotics
Record
| Company | SoftBank Robotics |
| Industry | Consumer robotics |
| Type(s) | cyber |
| Date | 29 May 2018 (day precision) |
| Time of day | not documented |
| Location | no physical site (recall / fleet-wide / aggregate record) |
| Severity | (near-miss / disclosed vulnerability) |
| Scale | not documented |
| Confidence | medium |
| Verified flag | Yes - independently re-checked against the cited source |
Summary
Security researchers publicly documented that the Pepper humanoid robot (Aldebaran/SoftBank Robotics) had minimal security controls, including lack of authentication on its APIs, calling it a security vulnerability rather than a caused-harm incident.
Primary source
Publisher: The Register · Retrieved: 2026-09-16
Supporting source rows (1)
| Date | Supporting source row | Publisher | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 May 2018 | Security researchers find Pepper robot lacks basic authentication/security controls | The Register | The Register |
Consumer robotics context
cyber context
SoftBank Robotics industry position
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