Given that the robot's software can be programmed to guess PINs in any order the user chooses, it may be able to crack phones far faster than that 20 hour benchmark.

Designed by a hacker, the "Combo Breaker" can figure out a lock's combination and get the thing open in less than 30 seconds.

Admittedly, this isn't the most elegant security threat we've ever seen, but it works. Meet R2B2, a 3D printed robot that punches PIN combination after ...

Those combination locks you pick up for a few bucks at the office supply store have never been the epitome of security — but now there's a robot that'll own the lock in seconds, all without ...

An invasion of 3-D printed robots may be coming, capable of popping combination locks in as little as half a minute.

In front of a tough crowd, Niwot’s SparkFun Electronics won the praise of hackers when a robot built by the company’s founder cracked opened a locked safe in 30 minutes.

Security researchers have built a robot with one goal in mind: to crack your smartphone’s PIN. Using 3D-printed parts, servomotors, a plastic stylus, an Arduino microcontroller, and a cheap ...