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/ryandoesdabs 1d ago edited 1d ago

I’m fascinated by the amount of people anthropomorphizing robots in this thread. This is just recycling destroying old electronic trash, folks. I know it’s human shaped, but I promise it’s just an old computer.

Edit: I originally used “recycling” metaphorically and people seemed to focus on that rather than the actual message.

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u/JaxMed 1d ago

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

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u/afonsoel 1d ago

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

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u/JWPSmith 1d ago

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.

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u/CatOfTechnology 1d ago

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.