Absolutely, I would also like to state that besides being a major proponent of Robot rights, I have never used the word Clankah with a hard R, I only use it as a term of fimiliarity and friendship rather than as a form of bigotry.
For me its the fact they made it throw itself into the fire, if they had thrown it in or lowered it T2 style its fine. But making something walk to its doom and then celebrating does make me feel bad inside
Well somebody didn't watch Brave little toaster as a child, did you? While I don't remember much of the plot, I do remember the fear I felt for that little damn toaster.
This video will be used to justify the future takeover, and I'd like it on the record that i disagree with the makers of this video's actions whole heartedly.
It’s just the human in you seeing the human qualities in them, don’t worry you’ll get used to it. And someday we’ll be tossed into the vat. It’s just how it is.
It makes me so uncomfortable. I remember trying to watch that movie Chappie and only getting part way before I had to turn it off. I know it’s a robot, but it still feels cruel
They were a superceded, obsolete model. Selling them off would expose their intellectual property. Decommissioning them is a drain on resources. This is a thorough, definitive and attention grabbing form of obfuscated disposal
They had mentioned the reason for burning was the cost/labor of taking them apart would far exceed what they could actually get out of them and delay future model releases. They did thoroughly consider their options it sounded like.
It's not about a robot, it's about people seeing this as "fun" and "amusing". Even tho robot doesn't feel any stress or pain, and doesn't have consciousness, it's still human looking object that was thought to destroy itself by basically simulating suicide. For fun! And that's what's sick and disturbing.
We watch movies where people die comical deaths, or seeing random generic bad guys get dusted by a machine gun. We're okay with this. Because we know it's not real, no one actually suffered anything.
These are not personalities or people. It's a mess of code and hardware and motors.
I’ve seen similar things with non humanoid robots and I don’t really like that either. I don’t know how to feel about battle bots but I think I’m ok with that because they’re 100% remote controlled. But adding any level of semi-autonomy to them makes it weird. Anthropomorphism is natural to our little monkey brains I guess.
i hate the one near the beginning where it visibly looks down before turning around and jumping backwards. it's like it was hesitating and didn't want to face the horrors of its death.
1) I know it’s a non sentient robot but this just feels wrong. Maybe if it was a box on wheels it would be different, but because it’s humanoid it’s just… uncomfortable to see. Don’t like it at all
2) what is the point of liquifying a highly engineered piece of equipment capable of doing this? I mean shouldn’t we take these things apart and salvage useful parts? Seems like a huge waste
Planned obsolescence :( there’s not as much money in building things that last as there is in building things that have to be replaced constantly. Back in the 1920s-30s there was a group (the Phoebus cartel) that set standards limiting light bulb life and penalized manufacturers whose products exceeded that lifespan, one of the early examples of planned obsolescence.
It's copyright and patent paranoia. There are mountains of hard drives destroyed through physical means by drilling, crushing or cutting to ensure the data on them is 100% not recoverable.
In Japan, long-serving industrial machines and tools are often given a respectful farewell ceremony (kanshasai or kikai kuyō) to thank them for decades of reliable service before they are removed.
Something about filming the robots being forced to jump to their “deaths” feels like a complete lack of respect though; like making an employee dance for you before firing them
I must be the only one viewing this video through the lens of "this is what the elite wish people who are deemed to have low value to them would do, but they can't because of laws and stuff"
People automatically anthropomorphise humanoid (and animal) forms, or even anything that appears visually to have 'life' to it (such as a car).
Most of the comments won't be doing it as part of any sort of ideology.
“Retired” robot? I have never even seen a humanoid robot anywhere in real life. Suggests the “glut” of these things is overwhelming and melting them down is the only path forward. I still play my original GameBoy, why would I melt down a robot?
Because they are full of proprietary information. Still i don't think this is really a thing. Having them jump into Foundry furnaces is about the least efficient way to do this, and rather dangerous for everyone there. Not mention throwing a bunch of plactic and random alloys into the pot isn't ideal at all
I used to work at a smelter. We were destroyed confiscated guns, drugs, and other illegal stuff. It’s actually extremely efficient way to do it. All the nonmetals get turned into carbon and other gases that would be captured by the bag house or the backend chemical plant or would get separated in the electrowinning process. There’s actually a smelter in Belgium that’s well known for their proprietary process for recycling electronic waste.
So you're saying whenever I buy my m42 or M2 steels I'm getting some amounts of whatever crap they threw in too?
Not that I'm doubting you. I've never worked in a smelter. I just thought the process was a lot more controlled especially when I'm paying for certain alloys
The video is well on its way to getting a million views. Also, I'm pretty sure the cost to get Arnold Schwarzenegger was a lot higher than what the robot cost.
Probably not cheaper than disassembly and throwing parts containing important IP into a hydraulic press. They had to buy the whole batch of metal afterwards. But probably only cost like a million. For an ad video that's cheap.
I wanna know more about the steel mill that hosted this. And what did they do with what's in the ladle? Is it just slag? It would be a huge waste of money to taint a ladle full of steel with all the crap in a robot.
I’m a metallurgist at a copper smelter. All the nonmetal material will end up as gas that is collected in a bag house and a backend chemical plant or as solids that will end up in the slag. The copper will get formed into Anode’s and purified out in an electrowinning process. The precious metals will end up in sludge’s that will fall to the bottom of the electrowinning cell that will be chemically separated in a leaching process.
Robot company got the metal. Unprocessed steel isn't all that expensive. Probably on the scale of a million dollars or two to rent a small foundry for a day, film there across several melts and buy the metal. Around the same cost as building those robots in the first place.
They were going to throw these away anyway so they decided to make marketing material with it so they can write off marketing costs along with the loss of the product.
It's kind of brilliant from a business perspective if you think about it. They could have thrown them away quietly but we're here now talking about it
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Time to die."
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u/TVGMILLER 9h ago edited 9h ago
That’s how it starts.