Robotics is evolving pretty quickly and today I want to highlight a few robot-controlled devices that can really harm us. Meet the Rovio robot! You probably think this is some kind of airplane or something high-tech in this class, but the truth is different. This is actually a robot. Yes, it’s a little robot in the form of a toy and you can get it as a gift for your kids. It navigates with the help of numerous sensors and can even use a GPS when used outdoors.
These toys are very popular these days. The reason we tell you all this is because we don’t know what the next invention will be. The robot itself is equipped with a built-in 640 × 480 VGA camera that is not easy to see if you have no idea of it, and has a microphone so you can hear everything the people you are watching spy, speak. Thanks to the Wi-Fi compatibility of this robot, you can control it from any point on the planet that is connected to the Internet. This device can also come to its docking station to recharge itself. So it can really work as a highly effective and autonomous spy tool.
But unfortunately that’s not all. Another robot that can not only threaten our privacy but also life itself is Robotic Weapon, designed by the Rogers Design Group. It is an RF controlled platform that wields a weapon. The shot accuracy is not really high, but considering that it gets pretty close to you, at Jammer-Shop Corporation we can say that low accuracy is not a real problem. Robotic weapon is made of aluminum and is controlled via WLAN. It also has a wireless camera and microphone. The entire device can be easily controlled by a single operator. This operator can see everything his robot sees and hear everything the robot hears.
Isaac Azimov, a great science fiction writer once wrote in his three laws of robotics: “A robot must not harm a human being or harm a human being by inactivity”, but now they can. For example, we can mention robot devices that took part in a war in Iraq, the so-called SWORDS robot, which is mounted with .45 cal machine gun and was developed for the war. These devices are quite dangerous and are said to be the future of modern warfare. There are more types of these military robotic devices, many of which are telepresence devices that cannot act without an operator, but machines like Guardian can be quite independent.
As you can see, remote controlled robotic devices can be quite harmful and dangerous, and the bad news here is that people with some knowledge of electronics and programming can build these devices at home. Of course, they won’t be as perfect and functional as their military counterparts, but even they may be able to spy on you or even kill you.
In this case you will surely need some protection and in fact it does exist. As long as the majority of these robots are RF controlled, we can use signal blockers against them. The easiest way to organize a remote control and video streaming is the Wi-Fi connection, so you can try to block it with 2.4 GHz signal blocker first. You may never need this signal jammer, but when it comes to security, it’s better to make the best of it.