Cybersecurity issues for companies employing Mobile Manipulators.

Nowadays, which are the period of the digital revolution robots are widely used due to this evolution. Robot is now an important part of our lives, which can be seen almost everywhere in industry, hospitals, military, logistic etc. Robots are connected to a control device (usually a computer) via Internet WiFi or Ethernet, or a local network. The mobile manipulator is a robot that is connected via the precedent network types to provide remote access. Providing a remote access born some issues with such big importance as maintaining the safety of the data collected by the mobile manipulator, worker safety, and security access. The increasing use of mobile manipulators in the industry gives a new problem which leads to some critical damage of its consequences may be catastrophic and may cause immediate physical damage to the robot, serious human injuries, economic/financial loss, and data leakage, those problems are caused by a malicious attack by hacking and controlling the mobile manipulator. In this thesis, we will discuss Cybersecurity issues for companies employing Mobile Manipulators by listing the threats which may result in a complete/partial prevention access and impact of the attack, and we study the risks caused by this hack/attack. While we provide some solutions to prevent the hack and enhance the mobile manipulator security, or any robot system using the same communication criteria so it’s subjected to the same risks. So after, we see that using a mobile manipulator is beneficial to the industry because it reduces labor costs and time only if we take into consideration all the security measures in order to benefit from its advantages and not convert them into a catastrophe in this industry.