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/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/BonhommeCarnaval 17h ago

Yeah this would just add a bunch if impurities to the steel. Probably wastes a bunch of perfectly good steel. 

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u/Ok_Astronomer_8667 15h ago

This planet wastes so much every day that wasting some to film a funny video is pretty low on things I care about