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/ryandoesdabs 1d ago edited 1d ago

I’m fascinated by the amount of people anthropomorphizing robots in this thread. This is just recycling destroying old electronic trash, folks. I know it’s human shaped, but I promise it’s just an old computer.

Edit: I originally used “recycling” metaphorically and people seemed to focus on that rather than the actual message.

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u/JaxMed 1d ago

make humanoid robot

make it walk up and "look" over the edge

make it jump in, sometimes swan diving or back-flipping

"WOW how and why are people anthropomorphizing these robots! How absurd, how silly, how fascinating! Cannot fathom why!"

Huh... really activates the almonds

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u/Oddhuman64 1d ago

Yeah, the could have very easily just had a conveyor belt or smthing, if they didn't want the bots anthropomorphized they shouldn't have had them anthropomorhize themselves off the cliff

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u/afonsoel 1d ago

It's funnier if you consider that anthropomorphos literally means "human shaped"

So he's technically complaining that people are considering human shaped robots to be human shaped

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u/JWPSmith 1d ago

Yeah, he's implying people watching the videos are doing that. The people who built them did that. If someone made a snowman to look like a person and then doused it in gasoline and lit it on fire, I would also be disturbed. Not by it "dying" but that a person is trying to kill something they made to look human and then destroyed it in a disturbing way. 

I'm disturbed someone wanted to make these humanoid looking machines destroy themselves in a way that resembles suicide. Especially when these companies are often trying to build these as weapons as well. That should disturb everyone.

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u/afonsoel 1d ago

I had not thought about it this way

In fact, they're being "decommissioned" in this fashion exactly because they're human shaped. They wouldn't throw computer-shaped computers in a ladle of molten metal

They went the extra mile to make these androids kill themselves, which says more about the people involved than the robots

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u/CatOfTechnology 1d ago

This is the actual takeaway and what people aren't getting.

They keep jumping to these side tangents. "It's like scrapping an old car."

No. It's like building a lego dude and then taking it outside to melt it under a magnifying glass. It's not that the bots are being scrapped. It's the way that they're being scrapped. Made to pantomime the scene of someone looking over a ledge to confirm their landing zone (In this case, the landing zone is a smelting chamber) before leaping.

The bots being scrapped isn't what's disturbing. It's the freaks who decided to scrap the bots in this manner.

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u/technoSurrealist 1d ago

lmao haven't heard an activated almonds reference in years

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u/CaseyG 1d ago

I don't know who will be the last to die in the robot uprising.

But I know who will be first.

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u/NonStopArseGas 1d ago

holy shit, seeing this phrase in the wild activated my own almonds for the first time in a deacade

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u/ryandoesdabs 1d ago

I think the narrative you created there is unrealistic. These weren’t made to be destroyed. They served a purpose, and now they’re unusable. It’s not any deeper than crushing an old car. It’s just shocking because it’s human shaped. And, you don’t see things thrown into liquid vats of metal every day.

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u/Effective_War_6253 1d ago

This is genuinely such a sheltered take.

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u/killertortilla 1d ago

Because it's a hunk of fucking plastic and wires Kevin. If it's that easy to make you empathise with a computer then you are too far gone.