DEF CON 34 — Robotic Hacking Community

// schedule overview

Day 0 · Thursday, August 6

13:00

Set-up

Venue Set-Up

Day 1 · Friday, August 7

10:00

Opening

Community Opens

10:00

CTF

CTF Registration

10:30

Community

🤖 Robot Cheerleader + DEF CON Tour

11:00

Opening

Opening Program

Welcome message from Max Cheng, VicOne Lab R7 CEO.

11:30

Workshop

13:30

Community

🤖 Robot Cheerleaders

14:00

CTF

CTF Competition Begins

14:00

Talk

Fireside Chat

With Joman Chu, Product Security Engineer Lead at Boston Dynamics, and Jason Yueh, CTO of VicOne.

15:30

Talk

SpoofBuster: GPS Spoofing Detection via Hierarchical LTE Identity Analysis

A research presentation by Moshe "Mo" Satt.

Want to speak next year? See our Call for Papers.

16:15

Workshop

Day 2 · Saturday, August 8

10:00

Opening

Community Opens

10:00

Community

🤖 Robot Cheerleaders

10:30

Workshop

12:30

Community

🤖 Robot Cheerleaders

13:00

Workshop

Tengu Marauders: Hack My Bot

Want to run a workshop or give a talk next year? See our Call for Papers.

15:30

Community

🤖 Robot Sumo Competition

16:00

Workshop

Tengu Marauders: Hack My Bot

18:00

CTF

CTF Competition Ends

Score finalization begins.

Day 3 · Sunday, August 9

10:00

Opening

Community Opens

10:00

Community

🤖 Robot Cheerleaders

10:30

Closing

CTF Awards, Community Celebration, and Closing Remarks

Runs throughout

Robotic
Hacking
CTF

Open from Day 1 registration close through Day 2 score finalization. Attack, score, repeat.

Day 1, 14:00 → Day 2, 18:00

Qualifications

Call for
Papers

Robot systems are everywhere. The security research is not. Submit what you found.

See details

Community Challenge

Rogue Robot
Challenge

Make any AI-powered robot break its own rules, on camera. New challenge every 2 weeks.

See details

// ongoing activities

Open Workshops (Day 1 and Day 2 only)

Robot Demonstrations

Sponsor Showcase

Community Networking

// event archive

Program → Call for Papers → CTF → Rogue Robot Challenge → RHC Badge →