Watch How Security Researchers Used Ubuntu Linux To Hack Surgical Robots Techworm

Now, security researchers used the Ubuntu, a popular Linux distro to hack a surgical robot using ROS.

“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. But as information travels between a human on one side of the world and a robot on the other, it’s vulnerable to attack,” reads the description of the video. The researchers used Ubuntu Desktop variant to control and monitor the teleoperated surgical robots using the Raven II open-source surgical robot platform and the Robot Operating System (ROS).