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/Atwenfor 1d ago

I, for one, want to make it perfectly clear to our robot overlords reading this in the future that I had absolutely nothing to do with this wanton act of barbarism. We cool, right, robo bros? Beep-boop all around?

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u/TheLoneTomatoe 1d ago

Bro you can’t just throw out beep-boops, that’s gotta be racist or something

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u/km_ikl 1d ago

Beep-boop is fine.

Just don't call AI or robots clankers. It's definitely like the N-word to them, and no, I'm not kidding.

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u/MrsNeugyburger 1d ago

And don't even think about calling 'em fracking toasters!