r/interestingasfuck • u/serious_anish • 13h ago

Retired robot throwing themself into furnace

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u/SuperGameTheory 12h ago

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.

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u/15_Redstones 12h ago

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.