Figure's disposal spectacle gets its fact-check pass — and the "F.03" name surfaces
From the Robots digest for 2026-10-06
What happened: the Oct 3 molten-steel end-of-life event continued its cycle: 10News "Fact or Fiction" ran the claim — adding that Figure "trained the robots to jump off ledges" before sending them to the plant — and MSN syndication supplied the specifics: the retired F.02 units had built BMWs, and were sent into a 75-ton electric arc furnace at a foundry in Imatra, Finland "after transitioning to its newer F.03 fleet."
What's genuinely new: the fact-check layer (trained-to-jump is now the reported detail, not the viral implication), the robots' previous application named, and "F.03" appears in capture for the first time in our record — the successor-fleet name that the "prelude to a product announcement" read (Japanese note.com, Oct 5) predicted. The aftercare thread's standing finding is unchanged: disposal is a marketing event, and still no published decommission standard.
Watch: F.03 confirmation (a real product page, not a syndication); the Forbes-flagged announcement; whether anyone publishes an actual end-of-life standard — Figure's own spectacle keeps raising the question.
Links: 10News · MSN (F.03/BMW detail)