Figure sends its old F.02 robots into molten steel
A retirement video for old hardware, a furnace in Finland, and a reply from the Terminator himself.
Figure retired its old F.02 humanoids by having them flip into a vat of molten steel, and posted the footage as a video called F.02 Decommission.
Founder Brett Adcock followed with the behind the scenes clip and the setup. "To be clear", he wrote, "we actually trained our robots to jump autonomously, shipped them to Finland, and had them leap into a vat of molten steel." In a separate post he said the furnace was a 75-ton electric arc furnace, and that the whole thing began because Arnold Schwarzenegger had ratio'd him on X.
Schwarzenegger showed up in the replies with four words. "Hasta la vista, F.02."
Hasta la vista, F.02.
Shown versus claimed
This is a joke send off for retired hardware, not a capability release. Adcock says the robots jumped autonomously, and the sources do not include any technical detail beyond that, so nobody outside Figure has verified how much of the jump the robot did on its own. Treat the autonomy line as part of the bit unless Figure says more.
What it does tell you is that F.02 is done. Figure's current generation is F.03, and a visitor to the company's lab recently said hundreds of Figure 03s were ambling around. The company has also been pushing that fleet publicly, including four straight hours of Helix 2.5 footage from 30 homes. Torching the previous platform on camera is a way of saying the old robots are no longer the story.
Robot companies usually retire hardware quietly. Older units get stripped for parts, parked in a back room, or shipped to a university. Figure turned the process into a marketing set piece with a movie reference and a cameo from the actor who supplied it.
There is nothing here to benchmark and nothing to argue about. It is a good video.
This started by Arnold ratio'n me on X, ended in Finland with our humanoid robots doing flips into a 75-ton electric arc furnace