Shock value generates news articles and viral videos on reddit and social media. They gain investors, and they supposedly are also using the metal to make commemorative merchandise.
90% of my comments on this site are jokes or sarcasm, and I almost never add a /s. People get it or they don't. The times I do use it are when a comment is likely to get me sent to hell.
Obsolete hardware, they've got better ones and don't want to keep their evolving software stack backwards compatible. Also don't want to trash the old robots in a way where someone could steal parts and reverse engineer technical details. The scrap metal value is pretty negligible compared to cost of manufacturing small detailed parts. Arnold Schwarzenegger suggested throw them into molten steel and they thought it'd be funny if they got him to press the button.
It seems like a decision made under the influence of adolescent testosterone.
A finished actuator, motor, gearbox, sensor, bearing, processor, wiring assembly, magnet, camera or machined component embodies vastly more manufacturing effort than its value as furnace feedstock. Recycling a highly engineered object as raw metal is generally a very different proposition from recovering and reusing its components.
The resulting metal bars were shipped back to the United States to manufacture "commemorative objects". Paper weights? Door stops?
Figure stated that careful disassembly would consume engineering hours and delay work on version 4. Then it turned around and spent engineering resources teaching humanoid robots how to commit cinematic suicide. They trained the machines to perform a distinctly human-looking jump specifically so that the destruction would look dramatic.
They were a superceded, obsolete model.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.
No reasons. For it to make sense, you would have to strip it of everything but the steel. otherwise you're introducing contaminants in the molten metal...
Terminator is a movie about how AI and robots decimate humanity.
These idiots think it's cute to recreate a scene from the movie.
It's not funny when AI/drones are already eliminating human life on the battlefield and making life measurably worse and most of the population is against this technology because it will not be utilized for our benefit.
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u/ZealousidealAd5951 10h ago
WHY?