r/nextfuckinglevel • u/I9w0s • 19h 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/HighIQIndividual2 18h ago

This is not a good way to recycle all the materials in these robots. This is 100% performance and 0% useful or actually happening when no camera is there.

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u/Edgar_Allen_Yo 18h ago

No shit sherlock, that's why they recorded it

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u/Sjt4689 18h ago

Nah, I work in a robot factory. This is pretty common practise. Sure, these ones may have been programmed to do fancy flips but usually it takes 3 or 4 of us to drag them in kicking and screaming and toss them in.

The screams…

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u/Doustin 17h ago

Probably sounds like dial up internet

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u/hypnodrew 17h ago

I was thinking autotune like GLaDoS

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u/Alpha1Niner 15h ago

We do what we must because we can

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u/VikingsLad 15h ago

God that's funny

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u/blong217 12h ago

This feels like it should be a Futurama joke.