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Humanoid robots decommissioned in Terminator-style molten steel leap
Figure said most retired F.02 robots were destroyed in a 75-ton furnace, and the recovered metal will become limited commemorative artifacts.
- Robotics company Figure decommissioned its retired humanoid robots in a Terminator-style disposal, sending them to a foundry in Imatra, Finland, where the machines autonomously leaped into a 75-ton electric arc furnace.
- The unusual disposal effort followed the arrival of Figure's newer fleet, as conventional dismantling risked exposing proprietary hardware; facilities in the United States and Mexico had rejected the request.
- Engineers trained the robots to leap at the San Jose headquarters using airbag simulations, though the 24-hour operation in Finland faced extreme temperatures and electromagnetic fields across six cycles of roughly 20 minutes each.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger encouraged the project and later joined the effort, while Figure shipped the resulting metal back to the United States to machine it into a limited run of commemorative artifacts.
- Beyond disposal, the project demonstrated autonomous robot control under extreme conditions, proving the machines executed trained movement policies despite severe electromagnetic interference and environmental disruptions.
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