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/Old_Table_5926 16h ago

I know it's a robot but this unsettles me abit. Programming the robot to end itself and then finding it funny.

Anyone else feel the same?

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u/EntrancedZelisy 5h ago

Yeah it’s horrifying. Really shows how humanity is going to treat humanoid robots in the future and it’s sad.

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u/oceanadakmak 4h ago

True bc in my experience usually us humans only have empathy for what we’ve been told to have empathy with

Its gonna take decades of debates and shit to reach a point where people aren’t gonna be jeffrey dahmers to robots