Watch how security researchers hacked a surgical robot using Ubuntu Linux
The power of Linux!
Linux operating system was developed as an open source alternative to Microsofts popular yet closed Windows operating system.
After being released in 1991, Linux has come a long way to powering drones and even destroyers.
(Credits-Motherboard)
Now, security researchers used the Ubuntu, a popular Linux distro to hack a surgical robot usingROS.
In the future, your surgeon could be a machine.
Teleoperated surgical robots can be controlled from a distance to operate on patients in hard-to-reach places.
The video was created byMotherboardunder its series called Can I Hack It?
with collaboration of the highly acclaimedMr.
RobotTV show on Amazon Prime.
In the first episode, researchers from the University of Washington attempt to hack a remote operated surgical robot.
source: www.techworm.net
