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SoftBank Robotics

Products: companion. Risk band: Low   RobotRisk index 1.2/100 (incidents/exposure, time-weighted) · 89th percentile of 91 consumer robotics companies.

Analyst brief

SoftBank Robotics's record contains one entry: a May 2018 disclosure by security researchers that the Pepper robot lacked basic authentication and security controls, classified as a cyber-type finding with the lowest severity rating in this set, 1. This is a press-reported security research finding rather than a field failure, recall, or regulatory action, and the record shows no operational incident or injury. The single low-severity entry is consistent with a vulnerability disclosure rather than a realized harm event. SoftBank Robotics's index of 1.3 is the lowest in this set, and its 88.9 percentile places it in the low-risk band within consumer-robotics.

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012018 S1: 1118
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Incident log (1 unique incidents)

SevDateTypeLocationIncidentSource
S105/29
2018
cyber Security researchers find Pepper robot lacks basic authentication/security controls The Register

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