  The reuse of technologies and inherent complexity of most robotic systems is
increasingly leading to robots with wide attack surfaces and a variety of
potential vulnerabilities. Given their growing presence in public environments,
security research is increasingly becoming more important than in any other
area, specially due to the safety implications that robot vulnerabilities could
cause on humans. We argue that security triage in robotics is still immature
and that new tools must be developed to accelerate the
testing-triage-exploitation cycle, necessary for prioritizing and accelerating
the mitigation of flaws.
  The present work tackles the current lack of offensive cybersecurity research
in robotics by presenting a toolbox and the results obtained with it through
several use cases conducted over a year period. We propose a modular and
composable toolbox for robot cybersecurity: alurity. By ensuring that both
roboticists and security researchers working on a project have a common,
consistent and easily reproducible development environment, alurity aims to
facilitate the cybersecurity research and the collaboration across teams.
