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  • It will be interesting in 5 years when this video is the most notable thing to come out of the company.
    by xnx
  • this is just incredibly metal. Kinda stupid but kilometers above the bottom requirement for rule of cool.
    by maxlin
  • This was the coolest thing I've seen in a long time. Feel bad for the people so stuck up they can't just enjoy something in the moment.
    by aliasxneo
  • Is this real? You have to be really careful what goes into a furnace crucible.

    I can't say this isn't but if these robots had any hydraulic fluid or liquid in their batteries I would expect to see a pretty serious explosion as it evaporates.

    e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLxRJlcNh2A

    by Lio
  • I wish folks would realize that if you make your video this polished, with shots this framed, people will glance off it assuming it's sorta fake. Give us a 5-8 min behind the scenes with normal-ish lighting, production crew around etc. and it'll garner a lot more interest.
    by rao-v
  • I don't know if the X survey for how to decommission F.02 was staged or not. But

    I do know this: having anthropomorphizing and romanticizing your dumb robots for so long like a soap opera from your founder's feed, and now staged this "humanized" robot incinerated in a melting pot EXACTLY like Terminator franchise's ending plot and EVEN hiring Arnold Schwarzenegger for a cameo, is giving me full goosebumps, NOT the right ones.

    I hope Brett Adcock realize that the Terminator franchise is literally the p(doom) outcome, not just in the names only.

    EPIC FAIL in your marketing stunt!

    by devy
  • The mere fact that these things still had batteries in them makes this feel so incredibly craven. Lithium mining has huge environmental and human rights implications... but we'd rather throw them in a crucible than recycle the parts? Jesus christ. If you can't responsibly recycle your materials you don't deserve to be building with them.
    by theroadnotbacon
  • This is pretty wild

    On TikTok most comments are about how this could be used as evidence by the AI of the future in judging humans

    It’s interesting how a lot of people are already feeling that these are not just machines/software

    When will we have a robot/AI revolution?

    by nico

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