Unai Ayucar Carbajo

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Unai Ayucar Carbajo is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of robotics and cybersecurity, a field he has helped define from its earliest stages. His work focuses on exposing the critical vulnerabilities in modern robotic systems, demonstrating that the security lessons from the IT industry are being dangerously ignored in robotics. Carbajo’s major contributions include introducing the Robot Vulnerability Database (RVD), a foundational resource that catalogs and classifies security flaws in robotic platforms, providing a crucial framework for the community. His 2019 paper on the RVD, with 10 citations, is a seminal work in this nascent domain. He further advanced the field by creating the Robotics CTF (RCTF), a practical "playground for robot hacking" that bridges the gap between cybersecurity experts and roboticists. His research on "Industrial robot ransomware: Akerbeltz" (4 citations) chillingly demonstrates how attackers could hold physical machinery for ransom, highlighting the potential for safety-related consequences including human harm. Carbajo’s work is not just academic; it is a clarion call for the industry to proactively address security before catastrophic failures become commonplace.