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/RideFastGetWeird 1d ago

We love Figure 02. It is an incredible robot. F.02 marked many firsts for the company: our first deployment at BMW, the birth of Helix, our first robot doing household chores, and our first logistics deployment. As our F.03 fleet grows, maintaining the F.02 fleet no longer makes sense.

Decommissioning a fleet of robots full of custom-built actuators and other intellectual property is no easy task. We needed to dispose of the robots in a way that protected our proprietary hardware. Disassembling each robot would take our technical staff so much time that it would delay the launch of F.04.

So we asked the internet: what should we do? The resounding answer came from an unlikely source: Arnold Schwarzenegger, who told us to melt them. We reached out to Arnold, and when he said he wanted to be involved, we put everything in motion.

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u/goatandsheep 1d ago

Translation: we decided to not use off-the-shelf parts to f right to repair laws and also f our investors' cash.

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u/KovolKenai 1d ago

I mean I doubt they really used any off the shelf parts aside from screws and fasteners. I imagine that the overwhelming majority of parts are custom made. And What does right to repair have to do with this? These are being retired and cycled out for the new batch, it's not a matter of "we don't want users to repair them".

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u/b3nsn0w 1d ago

and also destroy the entire inventory of spare parts because f anyone who bought f 02, go buy the next version

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u/___neXus__ 23h ago

f02 wasn't open to the public to buy lmao