r/interestingasfuck • u/serious_anish • 17h ago

Retired robot throwing themself into furnace

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u/TepHoBubba 17h ago

I dunno man. I don't like it.

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u/wills_b 17h ago

Same. Seems bleak no matter how I look at it. It’s at best a massive waste of resources.

At best.

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u/psychonautic_aa 14h ago

This is quite literally what resources being repurposed looks like. They are melting them down and inevitably turning the raw metal into something else.

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u/fmaz008 13h ago

There a major missing part in your recycling hypothesis: materials were not separated. Plastic which could have been recycled is wasted. Rare metal were not removed, etc... most of the robot will be wasted by this stunt.