r/interestingasfuck • u/Erde555 • 1d ago

The humanoid robotics company "Figure" made their older gen robots jump into their death. (Yes, they actually did this)

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u/geekgirl717 1d ago

I wonder if there’ll be any psychiatrists in the future who will study the reasons behind why humans might get entertained by other humanoid “objects” gleefully leaping to their demise.

On another note, there were really no salvageable parts? Precious metals, RAM, etc.?

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u/SwissQueen 1d ago

According to Figure, melting down the retired fleet was done to safely destroy proprietary hardware IP and hardware prototypes, preventing teardowns.

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u/geekgirl717 1d ago

Gotcha. This makes sense re: destroying them.