“WHEN THE CYBERSECURITY industry warns of digital threats to the ‘internet of things,’ the targets that come to mind are ill-conceived, insecure consumer products like hackable lightbulbs and refrigerators. But one group of researchers has shown how hackers can perform far more serious physical sabotage: tweaking an industrial robotic arm to cost millions of dollars worth of product defects, and possibly to damage the machinery itself or its human operator.”
Source: Watch Hackers Sabotage an Industrial Robot Arm | WIRED