Figure ships autonomous jumping robots to Finland to leap into molten steel
lukaszkaiser · x · 2026-10-01
Figure showed its humanoid robots were genuinely trained to jump autonomously, then shipped to Finland to leap into a vat of molten steel, with behind-the-scenes footage. Former OpenAI researcher Łukasz Kaiser reposted: "Yes, it is PR. But come on, it is cool."
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