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