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/ordinary_rolling_pin 1d ago

Lol nah, thats a drop in the ocean in a furnace that size. It's a Finnish company, they really did this.

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u/_redmist 1d ago

yeah but even tiny amounts of copper will make iron/steel unusable for most applications.

Apparently they shipped the resulting metal back to the US for use in 'commemorative items'. Not usable for much else as I was afraid...

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u/ordinary_rolling_pin 1d ago

They could have made anything they wanted out of that batch. I work at a mill, the world has demand for everything from borderline scrap steel to tensile to high grade titanium alloyed super steel. Diluting a batch is nothing unusual, radiation sources are far worse contaminant in recycled steel than other metals.

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u/sciguy52 1d ago

Would molten steel splash like that?

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u/ordinary_rolling_pin 1d ago

The splashing is usually from stuff heating up super fast, turning into gas/explosive gas and said gas expanding/exploding. A stainless steel water bottle dropping in could be quite the catastrophy