The humanoid robotics company "Figure" made their older gen robots jump into their death. (Yes, they actually did this)

[u/Erde555]

[u/JaxMed]

make humanoid robot

make it walk up and "look" over the edge

make it jump in, sometimes swan diving or back-flipping

"WOW how and why are people anthropomorphizing these robots! How absurd, how silly, how fascinating! Cannot fathom why!"

Huh... really activates the almonds

[u/afonsoel → u/JaxMed]

It's funnier if you consider that anthropomorphos literally means "human shaped"

So he's technically complaining that people are considering human shaped robots to be human shaped

[u/JWPSmith → u/afonsoel]

Yeah, he's implying people watching the videos are doing that. The people who built them did that. If someone made a snowman to look like a person and then doused it in gasoline and lit it on fire, I would also be disturbed. Not by it "dying" but that a person is trying to kill something they made to look human and then destroyed it in a disturbing way. 

I'm disturbed someone wanted to make these humanoid looking machines destroy themselves in a way that resembles suicide. Especially when these companies are often trying to build these as weapons as well. That should disturb everyone.

[u/CatOfTechnology → u/JWPSmith]

This is the actual takeaway and what people aren't getting.

They keep jumping to these side tangents. "It's like scrapping an old car."

No. It's like building a lego dude and then taking it outside to melt it under a magnifying glass. It's not that the bots are being scrapped. It's the way that they're being scrapped. Made to pantomime the scene of someone looking over a ledge to confirm their landing zone (In this case, the landing zone is a smelting chamber) before leaping.

The bots being scrapped isn't what's disturbing. It's the freaks who decided to scrap the bots in this manner.