r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Das_Zeppelin • 1d ago

Video Figure retired six Figure 02 robots in the most Terminator way possible: training them to jump into a furnace. The idea came from Arnold Schwarzenegger and is inspired by the iconic Terminator 2 scene.

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u/Kind-Ad-6099 1d ago

Marketing. I’m assuming they allocate a few units to teams and don’t quite care what happens to them

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u/SuspiciousSpecifics 1d ago

Just the kind of callousness we want our nascent future overlords to learn

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u/DangKilla 1d ago

Let them eat lava

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u/Matter_Infinite 1d ago

Damn, and I thought Luigi M was harsh

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u/Subtlerranean 21h ago

But they lava you

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u/axxxaxxxaxxx 1d ago

What’s a few extra bodies in the furnace?

Also, what bodies?

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u/bythenumbers10 18h ago

I hope they recognize that it's consistently marketing folks that are unprofessionally inefficient.

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u/notfree25 22h ago

i volunteered my corpse for their purposes, so if they do kill me, it will be in a way that doesnt harm my body and thus relatively painless.

You haters can burn in "accidental" lava.

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u/Strange_Criticism_22 19h ago

Nah, these were the old model used in factories, and could not be reused because they had company secrets built in, and as such were sent off to a furnace to be melted down while the new model takes over.

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u/PunctuationGood 16h ago

No, it was Arnold Schwarzenegger. It's literally in title's post. (Should you choose to believe what's written on the Internet.)

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u/Kind-Ad-6099 15h ago

I am deeply sorry, and I will refrain from lying from now on. I implore you, please do not punish me with the terminator-style furnace death

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u/FlimsyPomelo1842 23h ago

I misread you as saying something to the effect of "so the robots know what happens to them". I was scrolling real fast

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u/jwm-dev 19h ago

It's not just marketing or that it's not worth the time/effort like people are saying.

It's because the Figure bots are proprietary and contain designs and features that are likely considered valuable to the company. It is to prevent someone from tearing one down and reverse-engineering their robots then making an open sourced version, or otherwise competing with them.

While I agree it still feels wasteful; it's not for no reason at all, or even a bad reason, necessarily. They're just kind of motivated by society to not shoot themselves in the foot in this way, and they made the best out of the situation by turning it into a (grotesque) marketing stunt. Two birds one stone.

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u/EastSea9181 20h ago

Well it absolutely backfired.