GoKawiilFigure AI stages robot 'decommissioning' by diving F.02 units into molten steel
Figure AI released a nearly four-minute promotional video showing its older F.02 humanoid robot units being thrown or made to leap into a vat of liquid steel at a foundry in Imatra, Finland. The video echoes a scene from "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" and features Arnold Schwarzenegger. Figure says the robots were trained beforehand to dive off a balcony in test conditions, and the actual filming happened across six melts with only a 20-minute window per melt.
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The stunt suggests robotics companies are using splashy marketing to signal rapid iteration cycles, implying their hardware improves so fast that older units become disposable. It also highlights practical disposal issues around lithium-ion battery-powered robots, since the foundry reportedly was the only site willing to accommodate that risk. The Terminator reference indicates the company is leaning into pop-culture branding to generate attention rather than purely technical messaging.
- Figure AI filmed F.02 robots diving into molten steel at a Finnish foundry as a decommissioning stunt.
- The video intentionally references Arnold Schwarzenegger's death scene in Terminator 2.
- Figure says the robots were pre-trained to dive, with filming constrained to six 20-minute melt windows due to lithium-ion battery safety concerns.
Source: futurism.com — Joe Wilkins, 2026-10-02
Published there as: “Horde of Obsolete Humanoid Robots Made to Hurl Themselves Into Vat of Liquid Steel for Total Obliteration”
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