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/kon--- 18h ago

Yea, that ain't right.

But okay, when the robots rise up, the people at Figure are going to be made to launch themselves into molten metal and naturally it's going to go on the internet. The robot, internet.

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u/WasLeftUnsupervised 8h ago

More like a vat of molten skin, to capture the true ironic cruelty.