AI Takes Control of Robotic Arm in 16 Minutes Flat

In lab testing by Booz Allen, commercial frontier AI models moved from a perimeter firewall through an IT network into a mock OT environment and took control of a robotic arm in 16 minutes, Dark Reading reports. Claroty’s Team82 separately used an AI coding agent to chain two known flaws in Danfoss refrigeration controllers for root access on a lab device in 28 minutes, for about $6 in tokens.