Figure Melts Figure 02 With Arnold Schwarzenegger in a Terminator-Style Sendoff

Figure 02 got its Terminator ending. And Arnold Schwarzenegger came along for the sendoff.

Figure released its “F.02 Decommission” film on September 30, showing the retired humanoid being lowered into a glowing furnace, complete with a final thumbs-up. Schwarzenegger appears in the film and shared it with a suitably brief farewell: “Hasta la vista, F.02.”

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• Figure’s new farewell film features Arnold Schwarzenegger and a Terminator 2-style furnace sendoff for Figure 02.
• Brett Adcock says the event took place in Finland using a 75-ton electric arc furnace.
• The film follows Schwarzenegger’s suggestion to melt the retired robots; bonus clips show additional jumps into the furnace.

According to Figure CEO Brett Adcock, an exchange on X that began with Schwarzenegger getting the better of him ended in Finland, with humanoids doing flips into a 75-ton electric arc furnace.

That is a fairly elaborate way to clear some office space.

From an internet poll to a furnace in Finland

As we reported ahead of the sendoff, Adcock had said Figure was running out of room at its headquarters and needed to retire its old Figure 02 robots. When someone suggested a charity auction, he said the machines needed to be destroyed to protect the company’s intellectual property.

A poll favored blowing them up, with 46.3% of 1,422 votes. Schwarzenegger offered a different recommendation: “You should melt them.” Adcock responded that he had sent a direct message.

The September 28 AI-generated teaser hinted at what was coming. Then, on September 29, Adcock promised something “mind blowing”, adding: “It’s a bit of a detour 😂.” A trip to a Finnish furnace with the Terminator certainly qualifies.

Today’s release supplies the payoff, with Schwarzenegger himself taking part in the farewell.

A familiar final thumbs-up

The reference is to the closing moments of Terminator 2: Judgment Day, when Schwarzenegger’s T-800 is lowered into molten steel to prevent its technology from surviving. Figure’s film recreates the imagery with a chain, an industrial furnace and its own departing machine.

And yes, it includes the thumbs-up.

The film then trades the solemn farewell for bonus clips showing Figure 02 robots jumping into the furnace—the flips Adcock mentioned in his post. These are part of the sendoff spectacle; the posts do not explain how those shots were produced.

The poll’s voters may not have got their explosion, but Figure certainly delivered on the request for a memorable retirement ceremony.