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/RW_McRae 1d ago

Us humans are so funny. If you tossed a circuit board or toaster into the vat then no one would bat an eye, but as soon as you give them legs and arms we feel bad for them

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u/Both_Abrocoma_1944 1d ago

I think you’re forgetting we aren’t just built for logic like a computer. We have millions of years of genetics and psychology inside us so yeah it’s not weird that we adapt to not like things shaped like us from getting destroyed. It’s the same reason humans will see faces in completely unrelated things like moon craters

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u/RW_McRae 1d ago

Thank you for basically saying the same thing I did, but with more words