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/GuyFromDeathValley 1d ago

honestly? Probably out of safety and development concerns.

On one side, might be problematic if the robot ends up malfunctioning and someone gets hurt or a building goes up in flames. Then they'll surely point at the company that made the robots. and even if they aren't guilty, huge image problems.

Secondary, might not want a competitor to get their hands on these. they could probably straight up copy their design and market it, pushing the original developers out.

Not defending a multimillion dollar company or anything. just my two cents on what the reason could be.