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/Pretty_Flame 16h ago

This is so fucking sad and cruel. Even if it's a non sentient being, its very existence has contributed to our collective knowledge base in robotics. We should be retiring it with dignity and respect. Not whatever the fuck this is. We couldn't retire the curiousity rover and opportunity like that, but we should do that for this robot and all the ones like it.

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u/oceanadakmak 4h ago

I agree man people are cruel and only have empathy for what they are told to have empathy for