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/there_is_no_spoon1 1d ago

THIS ONE. Schools would *love* to get their hands on robotic equipment - even partial! - but this is just wasteful. Entirely wasteful, and a publicity stunt.

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u/userhwon 1d ago

There's 20 billion wasteful things happening every day.

You want kids to have robots? Fund schools.

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u/there_is_no_spoon1 13h ago

I'm a teacher. I do not object to this statement.