As Global Powers Explore Humanoid Robots, Cyber-Risk Looms

Recorded Future warns that the rapid rise of embodied AI (humanoid robots, drones, robotic dogs) is creating new cyber risk surfaces: researchers have found backdoors and unauthorized data exfiltration in popular robots, and nation-state actors—particularly Chinese APTs—have been conducting sustained cyberespionage campaigns against the mining sector to secure critical minerals and supply-chain advantages, posing strategic security and supply-chain risks even though the observed activity is primarily espionage rather than destructive operations.