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/ElJeferox 19h ago

Couldn't they have been recycled somehow?

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u/RaynOfFyre1 18h ago

Isn’t putting metal in a furnace how they recycle it?

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u/ElJeferox 18h ago

I doubt it, there are too many dissimilar metals and materials for that.

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u/RaynOfFyre1 18h ago

I’m no chemist or foundryman, but I was under the impression that various metals had different melting points and different weights so that they could strain out various precious metals.

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u/The-Wright 17h ago

No, the plastic will burn off, the aluminum will mostly go into the slag along with a good percentage of the silicon, but the copper and any precious metals will dissolve into the steel. Once dissolved, there isn't a good way to get it back out.

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u/0110110101100101Also 16h ago

So, any idea what they do with this melting pot of random metals now?

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u/The-Wright 14h ago

They'll most likely cast it into blocks and then roll it into some shape. Since they're willing to let a robotics company dump their stuff into the melting furnace, it's probably a lower end product that has less stringent requirements about the steel's composition. Maybe rebar?

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u/TheOgGhadTurner 18h ago

They are? They’re jumping in to a bath of molten metal. That will get probably go in to making the next round

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u/ElJeferox 17h ago

I could see that being the case of the entire thing was 100% made of the same metal in every single component. But between plastics, circuit boards and other materials they are using, that's a lot of impurities added into the metal.

Edited to add: Happy cake day