Rethinking Robot Safety in the Age of AI
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The shift from “does the robot fail safely?” to “what if an attacker changes what it sees or decides?” moves robot safety squarely into cyber-physical security. If you deploy physical AI—factories, warehouses, hospitals—your safety case now needs adversarial ML and network threat modeling, not just interlocks and e-stops.
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