{"id":128579,"date":"2021-10-05T11:24:04","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T18:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/blockchain-technology-could-provide-secure-communications-for-robot-teams"},"modified":"2021-10-05T11:24:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T18:24:04","slug":"blockchain-technology-could-provide-secure-communications-for-robot-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/blockchain-technology-could-provide-secure-communications-for-robot-teams","title":{"rendered":"Blockchain technology could provide secure communications for robot teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/blockchain-technology-could-provide-secure-communications-for-robot-teams.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The transaction-based communications system ensures robot teams achieve their goal even if some robots are hacked.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine a team of autonomous drones equipped with advanced sensing equipment, searching for smoke as they fly high above the Sierra Nevada mountains. Once they spot a wildfire, these leader robots relay directions to a swarm of firefighting drones that speed to the site of the blaze.<\/p>\n<p>But what would happen if one or more leader robots was hacked by a malicious agent and began sending incorrect directions? As follower robots are led farther from the fire, how would they know they had been duped?<\/p>\n<p>The use of blockchain technology as a communication tool for a team of robots could provide security and safeguard against deception, according to a study by researchers at MIT and Polytechnic University of Madrid, which was published today in <em>IEEE Transactions on Robotics.<\/em> The research may also have applications in cities where multirobot systems of self-driving cars are delivering goods and moving people across town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The transaction-based communications system ensures robot teams achieve their goal even if some robots are hacked. Imagine a team of autonomous drones equipped with advanced sensing equipment, searching for smoke as they fly high above the Sierra Nevada mountains. Once they spot a wildfire, these leader robots relay directions to a swarm of firefighting drones [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,34,1488,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-drones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}