Eyes, Ears, And Now Arms: IoT Is Alive
HelpNet Security, Tuesday, April 29th, 2025
I've never quite seen anything like this in my two decades of working in the Internet of Things (IoT) space. In just a few years, devices at home and work started including cameras to see and microphones to hear.
Now, with new lines of vacuums and emerging humanoid robots, devices have appendages to manipulate the world around them. They're not only able to collect information about their environment but can touch, 'feel', and move it.
This is equal parts exciting and concerning. Cheap and unregulated devices are imminently hackable with horror stories of bad actors accessing media feeds and spying on users. Armed with, well, arms, this evolution interconnects cybersecurity with physical security.