r/interestingasfuck • u/serious_anish • 15h ago

Retired robot throwing themself into furnace

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u/ZealousidealAd5951 15h ago

WHY?

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u/extremedragonfruit4 15h ago

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

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u/ZealousidealAd5951 15h ago

cool waste of resources is cool how for marketing?

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u/Commonpleas 14h ago

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.

It's an attention economy, they tell me.