Do warehouse AMR operators actually monitor their fleets for security in production?

Hi all — I’m a security engineer researching runtime security for autonomous mobile robot fleets (warehouse/3PL AMRs on ROS 2). I keep hitting one question I can’t answer from the outside, and I’d value the perspective of people who actually run or build these fleets:

  1. For fleets already deployed in production — is anyone doing continuous security monitoring (detecting anomalous behaviour at runtime), or is security still mostly design-time hardening (SROS 2, DDS security) and then hands-off?
  2. When an operator worries about a robot being compromised, is that framed as a cybersecurity problem or purely as a safety/uptime problem? Who owns it internally?

Not selling anything — genuinely trying to understand the current state before assuming a gap exists. Grateful for any real-world experience.

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Hi @RoboticsTehnologis,

Nice to hear you are using ROS in production!

While I can’t answer your question directly, the OSRA is about to kick off some work on improving ROS security. It would be really valuable to get your experiences, thoughts, and questions folded in to that effort. Can you DM me with your contact info so we can get you looped in to that effort?

cc: @tomoyafujita