Our vision is to make GLITCHED the trust mark for physical AI, starting with robot software. We help fleet operators turn security findings into release decisions backed by evidence, so trust can keep pace with deployment.
Sectors
Where robots now work.
The same kind of software now runs machines in fields, hospitals, warehouses, homes and places people cannot easily reach.
Agriculture
Picking, planting and monitoring crops in greenhouses and open fields.
Aged care
Companionship, mobility help and monitoring for people living with age or illness.
Surgery
Instruments steered by surgeons, with more autonomy arriving step by step.
Transport and logistics
Delivery robots on pavements and fleets moving goods through warehouses.
Security
Patrol robots watching car parks, campuses and buildings.
Factories and production
Arms and mobile robots building and moving things along the line.
Construction
Bricklaying, surveying and heavy work on building sites.
Household support
Cleaning, tidying and fetching in the home.
Underwater robotics
Inspection and repair beneath the surface, where people cannot easily go.
Space exploration
Rovers and crawlers working on other worlds.
Pipe inspections
Crawlers checking drains, pipelines and tunnels from the inside.
Wherever one of these ships, software is in control of something that moves near people. That is the part we test.
AI is cheap, it understands protocols, and it knows how systems work. The strongest attacker a robot will meet is already a model, so we test with one. We run AI agents against robotic systems the way an attacker would, while a fleet is still something you can change.
The surfaces a robot actually exposes
Voice, radio, machine-readable text. The interfaces that used to be protected by obscurity, and are not any more.
The paths a test plan never covers
An agent explores the state space, chains actions together, and keeps going after the first thing that works.
Findings someone can decide on
What was attempted, what succeeded, and what it means for the decision to ship, written for the people making that call.
Signals
Reviewed
Robotics on the radar.
Security research, real-world deployments, and the rules taking shape around them. A curated view, linked to the original sources.
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Security & safety
Digit 5 connects to offboard safety systems
Salem, US
Agility and FORT announced a partnership to extend Digit 5’s safety architecture with an offboard interface connecting the robot to external safety systems.
Partnership announcement · Describes planned safety infrastructure, not an independent safety assessment.
NVIDIA’s ROSCon keynote covered accelerated memory transports in ROS 2 Lyrical, a feature for transferring large tensors and point clouds with less overhead.
Conference session · The linked programme describes the feature and its integration into robotics applications.
Boston Dynamics opened a training centre at Hyundai’s Georgia campus. Atlas robots are learning manufacturing tasks, including sequencing automotive parts for assembly.
Training facility · The announcement describes preparation for manufacturing deployment, not full production rollout.
The EU Cyber Resilience Act’s reporting obligations began applying on 11 September. The Commission’s implementation timeline places full application on 11 December 2027.
Regulatory milestone · The date marks reporting duties, not the start of every requirement under the Act.
Fieldwork Robotics funds raspberry-picking robots for UK farms
Norfolk, UK
Fieldwork Robotics, a University of Plymouth spin-out, raised a £2.5 million Seed+ round and is deploying production harvesting machines on farms in Norfolk and Staffordshire under an Innovate UK programme.
Company funding announcement · It expects multi-robot fleets in commercial use from 2027; performance has not been independently assessed.
Two ministries unveiled an AI Care Technology strategy: AI and smart-home monitoring for older people living alone, smart facility models, and specialised physical AI for care settings from 2028.
Government strategy · A plan and timeline, not a deployment; the 2028 physical-AI milestone is a target.
J&J MedTech’s OTTAVA surgical robot gets FDA de novo authorisation
Silver Spring, US
The FDA granted de novo classification to the OTTAVA soft-tissue robotic system for general surgery procedures including gastrectomy, splenectomy, small bowel resection and appendectomy.
Regulatory action · Surgeon-controlled system; a commercial launch timeline has not been disclosed.
Monumental raises $32M to put bricklaying robots on more sites
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Monumental, which works as an autonomous bricklaying subcontractor, raised a $32 million Series B led by Khosla Ventures to expand its fleet across Europe and the UK and launch in the US.
Funding announcement · Fleet size and homes-built figures are company claims.
Nauticus has both Comanche ROVs on commercial offshore work
US Gulf Coast
Nauticus Robotics said one Comanche ROV supports offshore wind development in the US Northeast and the other is doing platform inspection off the US Gulf Coast.
Company announcement · Bids it mentions are not included in current activity and may not become contracts.
The Nebraska grocer introduced Simbe’s autonomous Tally robot and Store Intelligence platform at select stores to track product availability, pricing and placement.
Deployment announcement · Number of stores and results were not given.
Busan City will send semi-autonomous crawlers with cameras, 3D laser scanners and ultrasonic and gas sensors into sewers, with deep learning flagging six defect types, in a five-month project from August.
Municipal programme · A 125 million won project, not a city-wide rollout.
ISO 10218 industrial robot safety standard is revised
Geneva, Switzerland
The 2025 edition of ISO 10218 (Part 1 for robots, Part 2 for applications and cells) is the first major revision since 2011. Trade coverage reports it folds in collaborative-robot requirements from ISO/TS 15066 and makes functional safety and cybersecurity requirements explicit.
Standard · Dates and detail come from ISO’s catalogue listing and trade coverage; national adoptions such as ANSI R15.06 and CSA Z434 follow separately.
ISO 25785-1 draft would set safety rules for humanoid and legged industrial robots
Barcelona, Spain
The draft covers industrial mobile robots that need active control to stay upright, including humanoids, quadrupeds and balancing wheeled platforms, filling a gap left by ISO 10218 and ISO 3691-4.
Draft standard · Still in committee, so not yet in force. Date is the working group’s latest session I could confirm; publication is estimated for late 2026 or 2027.
KUKA says its robot OS and controller reach IEC 62443-4-2 Security Level 2
Augsburg, Germany
KUKA announced Security Level 2 certification under IEC 62443-4-2 for its iiQKA.OS2 operating system and KR C5 controller platform, and says it also meets EN ISO 10218-1:2025.
Company announcement · The page names no certifier or certificate number, and “first in robotics” is KUKA’s own claim.
Curated snapshot, reviewed 12 October 2026. Markers locate the organisation or event, not affected devices. Dates refer to announcements, disclosures, or policy milestones.