Robots Help University Of Tulsa With Cyber-Security Research

The University of Tulsa now has three robotic “dogs” they’ll use for cyber-security research, as part of a $3.7 million grant from the Army.

The Boston Dynamics robots will help T-U study how robots can enter a physical space that might be dangerous for a person, and evaluate a cyber-security issue.

“The robotic dogs will be used to communicate with the environment to see if there's anything malicious going on, and they can also actuate in the environment to control that,” Dr. Rose Gamble, TU’s VP for Research said.

T.U. plans to build a virtual reality studio where student control the robots from a distance and test the ability for them to patrol a cyber world and look for virtual threats.