Figure AI Trains Retired Robots to Dive Into Molten Steel

Here’s something you don’t see every day, unless you happen to watch Terminator 2: Judgement Day that much: robots diving into a pool of molten metal.

AI robotics firm Figure recently retired its fleet of Figure 02 humanoid robots. The company wrote in a blog post that the robots were no longer maintainable, and Figure had decided to destroy them completely in order to protect their “custom-built actuators and other intellectual property” from leaks. They settled on the method most…