{"id":15476,"date":"2026-09-30T17:12:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T16:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/technophilosoph.com\/2026\/09\/30\/terminator-style-how-to-dispose-of-discarded-humanoid-robots\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T22:05:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T21:05:25","slug":"terminator-style-how-to-dispose-of-discarded-humanoid-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technophilosoph.com\/en\/2026\/09\/30\/terminator-style-how-to-dispose-of-discarded-humanoid-robots\/","title":{"rendered":"Terminator-Style: How to Dispose of Discarded Humanoid Robots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A few weeks ago, the Figure.AI team wondered what to do with the dozens of old Figure 02 humanoids that had served their purpose and were now slated for disposal. Figure CEO Brett Adcock asked the internet for advice. And the answer came from a very unexpected source. None other than Arnold Schwarzenegger replied and suggested the only logical course of action: melt down the Terminators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-x\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You should melt them.<\/p>&mdash; Arnold Schwarzenegger (@Schwarzenegger) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Schwarzenegger\/status\/2090122510822150541?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 19, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No sooner said than done! The Figure team got in touch with the Styrian Oak and the actor who played the Terminator and began preparations. These turned out to be more difficult than expected\u2014not so much in terms of how to control the robots, but rather in finding a steel mill willing to melt them down in its own blast furnaces. All the American companies raised concerns that the process might damage their facilities. It wasn\u2019t until a Finnish steel company agreed to participate that things moved forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.figure.ai\/news\/f-02-decommission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">result<\/a> is entertaining. Not only does it recreate the scene from *Terminator 2*, but Schwarzenegger himself makes an appearance, delivering one of his most famous lines. But see for yourself!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pfAh5oQDPDM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s a look behind the scenes of this shoot:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dAWA4wF8hsM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And another one:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h2zX92JKRdU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, the Figure.AI team wondered what to do with the dozens of old Figure 02 humanoids that had served their purpose and were now slated for disposal. Figure CEO Brett Adcock asked the internet for advice. And &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/technophilosoph.com\/en\/2026\/09\/30\/terminator-style-how-to-dispose-of-discarded-humanoid-robots\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Terminator-Style: How to Dispose of Discarded Humanoid Robots<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8770504,"featured_media":15477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[694240505],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-robot-en","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p72hdn-41C","amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/technophilosoph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Figure-02-Melting.png?fit=2000%2C1125&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technophilosoph.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technophilosoph.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technophilosoph.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technophilosoph.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8770504"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technophilosoph.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15476"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technophilosoph.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15551,"href":"https:\/\/technophilosoph.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15476\/revisions\/15551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technophilosoph.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technophilosoph.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technophilosoph.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technophilosoph.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}