{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/robotics-ctf-rctf-a-playground-for-robot","title":"Robotics CTF (RCTF), a playground for robot hacking","arxiv_id":"1810.02690","date":"2018-10-01","proceeding":null,"authors":["Gorka Olalde Mendia","Lander Usategui San Juan","Xabier Perez Bascaran","Asier Bilbao Calvo","Alejandro Hernández Cordero","Irati Zamalloa Ugarte","Aday Muñiz Rosas","David Mayoral Vilches","Unai Ayucar Carbajo","Laura Alzola Kirschgens","Víctor Mayoral Vilches","Endika Gil-Uriarte"],"abstract":"Robots state of insecurity is onstage. There is an emerging concern about major robot vulnerabilities and their adverse consequences. However, there is still a considerable gap between robotics and cybersecurity domains. For the purpose of filling that gap, the present technical report presents the Robotics CTF (RCTF), an online playground to challenge robot security from any browser. We describe the architecture of the RCTF and provide 9 scenarios where hackers can challenge the security of different robotic setups. Our work empowers security researchers to a) reproduce virtual robotic scenarios locally and b) change the networking setup to mimic real robot targets. We advocate for hacker powered security in robotics and contribute by open sourcing our scenarios.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.02690v4","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.02690v4.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"robotics-ctf-rctf-a-playground-for-robot","repo_url":"https://github.com/aliasrobotics/rctf-list","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null},{"paper_slug":"robotics-ctf-rctf-a-playground-for-robot","repo_url":"https://github.com/aliasrobotics/RCTF","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}