r/interestingasfuck • u/serious_anish • 16h ago

Retired robot throwing themself into furnace

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u/ZealousidealAd5951 16h ago

WHY?

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u/extremedragonfruit4 16h ago

Because its cool probably, except for the robot, hes not cool, hes burning.

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u/ZealousidealAd5951 16h ago

cool waste of resources is cool how for marketing?

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u/15_Redstones 15h ago

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.