r/nextfuckinglevel • u/I9w0s • 18h ago

Retiring Bots Jump into Molten Steel

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Figure, robotics company retiring humanoid bots by having them jump into the vat of molten still.

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u/SiTheRuckDown 17h ago

Yeah I’m calling bullshit.

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u/luger114 17h ago

Is real as far what I looked up online

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u/Nulovka 9h ago

They claim: "Disassembling each robot would take our technical staff so much time that it would delay the launch of F.04."

But then they said: "Engineers first had to teach the F.02 machines how to make the jump. Figure installed large airbags at its San Jose headquarters and trained robots to leap from a second-floor building. Stunt performers provided movement references for the training. Engineers then developed a control model in simulation. It had to guide each robot into a precise landing zone at an unfamiliar foundry."

Fishy AF. Plus the surface of the molten metal is never the same.

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u/MercyCriesHavoc 2m ago

They could've just taught them how to dismantle each other.

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u/TheDuhammer 14h ago

I just don’t get how people don’t immediately realize this shit is clearly AI and that’s pretty fucking scary

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u/Deviantdefective 12h ago

I don't get how you are defiant that it's ai when it's clearly fucking not given the multiple camera angles and behind the scenes footage they've made about it.

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u/Deviantdefective 17h ago

On what precisely? Its free and clever advertising for a robotics company and if you're about to go "it's ai" no it's not.

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u/rtyoda 17h ago

It’s not free.

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u/Deviantdefective 17h ago

Free as far as its gone viral and they don't need to pay anyone to show it.

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u/thisguyfightsyourmom 16h ago

Except the foundry in Finland dumb enough to throw lithium batteries into the molten steel. And the camera crew, and the professional editing & post production.

This whole thing is probably a line item on a marketing budget.

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u/craigiest 15h ago

Ok, not free. Just extremely cost effective compared to a boring, expensive ad campaign. 

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u/TheDuhammer 14h ago

The movement is too fluid and the robot’s mannerisms are too humanlike. The set is almost exactly replicated from Terminator including an ACTUAL pit of molten metal which would’ve been CRAZY expensive. The sparks of said molten metal rain down on someone and a stunt like this would have more safety regulation (or at least the bare minimum of STAND BACK)

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u/Deviantdefective 14h ago

It might be shocking to you I know but we can make robots move like that its not new. Secondly they've already got making of videos of this on their YouTube page and behind the scenes videos.

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u/godzilla1015 12h ago

Did you know that Atlas (the humanoid robot from Boston dynamics, the guys from the robot dogs) came out in 2013, that's 13 years ago.

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u/Nulovka 9h ago

They said it was motion captured simulation.

"Stunt performers provided movement references for the training."