Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: One of the most important technologies developed to make human life easier is robotics. Initially used extensively in the automation of production systems, robots have also begun to be widely used in the service sector, with rapid technological developments. The need for security, which ranks second after physiological needs, has also been an area where these technological developments have been intensively used. Robots of various types, developed using different combinations of software and hardware, have begun to be used in both private and public security sectors. Every advancement brings new challenges. Developments in robotics have introduce their security issues, and ensuring the reliability of security robots has become an important area of research, including issues such as ensuring that these robots work flawlessly and perform their tasks correctly, that they operate without failure under different conditions so that security services are not disrupted, and that physical, financial, and information security issues do not arise due to malicious use and loss of control. This study aims to conduct a bibliometric analysis of studies on robots used in security services and robot security in the VoS database, to identify studies and researchers that contribute to the literature in this field, and to reveal the scope and historical development of studies related to this topic. Within this scope, the studies obtained from the search conducted in the Web of Science (WOS) database were examined using the VOS viewer program with co-authorship, co-occurrence of keywords, and co-citation analysis. The findings reveal that publication output has increased sharply since 2019, co-authorship networks remain weak, and three distinct intellectual clusters were identified: cyberattacks on robotic systems, inter-robot communication security, and robot operating system vulnerabilities. No studies on safety robots and robot safety have been found in the literature, and this gap constitutes the main motivation for the present study.
Author: Ertuğrul Çavdar
Institution: Kastamonu University
Language: Turkish
Subfield: Control and Systems Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W7166646012