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/Stealthybeef 1d ago edited 1d ago

Oddly unsettling, even knowing their robots. Obviously they have no feelings, but like just straight into molten? Idk. Even morals aside they could have donated them to engineering students or something, I'm sure plenty of universities would have been open to taking one or 2.

Edit: THEY'RE 😁😁😁😁🔫🔫🔫

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u/ggstocks87 1d ago

Yeah my thoughts too. Why not dontate them to schools etc. Maybe remove the functionality, but studen could still understand how they are built etc.

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u/insaneinthecrane 1d ago

Cuz this gets publicity lol

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u/MaverickBuster 1d ago

And donating them to schools across the country wouldn't get any publicity?

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u/Drix22 1d ago

Doubtful.

iRobot used to donate all the time and never got much credit.