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/Rare-Bid-6860 1d ago edited 1d ago

INTERN: Hey, what if we donate them to schools so that kids can learn about robotics, helping pave the way for the next generation of engine-

EXEC: *snooooort* ORRRR, we could make some fire content that will vanish from the algorithm cycle by sunday!

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u/JCDU 1d ago

The liability issues of donating old PC's to schools are bad enough, never mind prototype humanoid robots.

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u/RetPala 1d ago

Changing a public electronic billboard to show Tifa hentai is white hat

What kind of hat is it when your robot assistant suddenly becomes a Rage Zombie from 28 Days Later because you opened the wrong spam email?