Designed by Apple, Built by Robots: iPhone Maker Gets Rid of Human Workers

“I, Robot” is finally becoming a reality, as Foxconn is replacing a big part of its Chinese workforce with robots that will be capable of conducting the majority of operations for building new products including iPhones.

Dai Jia-peng, general manager in Foxconn’s Automation Technology Development Committee, said in an interview with Digitimes that the company has already started automating production at its factories in China, trying to focus on three different stages to accomplish its goal.

Three stages

The first such stage is setting up robots to perform tasks that are too dangerous for human workers or simply activities that employees would refuse to do. So the next time you say no to something that your boss wants you to do, just think that there might be a robot out there always willing to do it.

Then, it’s the second phase, which according to the Foxconn official involves strea...

SecRule REQUEST_URI "@rx ..." "id:1001,phase:1,deny,status:403"

find /var/www -type f -name "*.php" -mmin -120

ss -tunp | grep -E ":(4444|1337|8080|9001)"

apt update && apt --only-upgrade install <pkg>

title: Detect Exploitation - Designed by Apple, Built by Robots: iPhone Maker Gets Rid of Human Workers
id: ebd6ec2a-89c7-4b7c-96cc-05eb1ecbb67a
status: experimental
description: Automatisch generierte SIEM-Erkennungsregel basierend auf CTI Intelligence
references:
  - https://tsecurity.de/
author: iShareStuff CTI Automated Detection Engine
date: 2026-09-24
logsource:
  category: network_connection
  product: any
detection:
  selection:
      CommandLine|contains:
        - 'exploit'
  condition: selection
falsepositives:
  - Legitime administrative Zugriffe oder Penetrationstests
level: high
tags:
  - attack.initial_access

rule CTI_Threat_Indicator {
    meta:
        author = "iShareStuff CTI Automated Detection Engine"
        date = "2026-09-24"
        description = "YARA Signature for "
    strings:
        $str = "Designed by Apple, Built by Ro" ascii wide
    condition:
        any of them
}