Figure has given its Figure 02 humanoid robots an incredibly unusual retirement, with most of the fleet now officially gone. 🤖🔥 As Figure moves toward scaling its newer Figure 03 platform, the company decided keeping the older F.02 fleet running no longer made practical sense. Dismantling them individually wasn’t exactly efficient either. Their custom actuators and proprietary components would have required engineers to take apart each robot by hand, potentially taking enough time to slow development of the next generation.. Then the internet had an idea. When Figure asked what it should do with the retiring robots, Arnold Schwarzenegger simply replied: “Melt them.” Figure reached out to Schwarzenegger, and the joke eventually became a real plan with an unmistakable Terminator vibe. Finding a facility willing to accept complete humanoid robots wasn’t easy. Several foundries in the U.S. and Mexico reportedly turned them away because the machines contained lithium-ion batteries. F...