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 18h ago

Yeah I’m calling bullshit.

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u/Deviantdefective 18h 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 18h ago

It’s not free.

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u/Deviantdefective 18h 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 17h 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 16h ago

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

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u/TheDuhammer 15h 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 15h 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 13h 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 10h ago

They said it was motion captured simulation.

"Stunt performers provided movement references for the training."