@worldwidenewz: Figure has officially retired most of its Figure 02 humanoid robot fleet in one of the most unusual sendoffs yet. As Figure 03 scales up, the company says maintaining its older F.02 robots no longer made sense. Simply taking them apart was also a problem. The robots contain custom actuators and proprietary hardware, and Figure said having its technical team dismantle each unit would take enough time to delay work on Figure 04. When Figure asked the internet what it should do with the robots, Arnold Schwarzenegger replied, "melt them." The company contacted him, he agreed to get involved, and the idea eventually turned into a very fitting Terminator-style retirement. After foundries in the U.S. and Mexico declined to accept complete robots containing lithium-ion batteries, Figure found a facility in Imatra, Finland. The company trained the F.02 robots in San Jose to autonomously jump before shipping them to Finland, where they leaped into a 75-ton electric arc furnace filled with molten steel. Figure says the stunt was genuine, not Al-generated footage. The recovered metal was shipped back to the U.S. and will be machined into a limited series of artifacts commemorating Figure 02. A few F.02 units will remain in storage, but most of the fleet is now gone. #fyp #robot #future #technology #codecoin

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