Figure's end-of-life theatre: F.02 robots "decommissioned, T2-style"
From the Robots digest for 2026-10-03
What happened: Figure retired its F.02s by having them "hurl themselves into a vat of molten steel" — with an Arnold Schwarzenegger bit (Sep 30) — the practical point being proprietary-tech protection + material recovery at end-of-life, staged as franchise homage.
What's genuinely new: the first fleet-scale, on-camera end-of-life event for a humanoid line — the robot-aftercare thread's decommissioning-anatomy chapter (200–500 subcomponents, "kinetic data breach," no published standard) now has its pop-cultural datapoint: spectacle is how the industry currently handles disposal.