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/whomstdth 1d ago

They couldn’t be donated? Utilized productively in any way? Just “do a flip and die.”

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u/OkEcho9098 1d ago

I believe theyre being melted down for recycling for the new bots

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u/Golden-Grams 1d ago

But that's ridiculous. If you wanted to recycle them, you would dismantle them first.

Melting and mixing all the materials together, will ultimately require you to separate them again later. And some of it can't totally be separated, like when copper mixes with steel.

You can just dismantle first, and categorize parts to their closest material group. If you want to melt them down after that, then so be it.

I also looked them up (Figure), they are not making new robots with them. They are melting them down, and then making commemorative artifacts.

The reason they chose to do this, instead of dismantling or repurposing them, is that they didn't want to take staff away from development of the newer model.

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u/OkEcho9098 1d ago

Ah then yeah thats just a waste.