Figure AI sued – whistleblower warned ... robots 'fracture a human skull'
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"Adcock and Edelberg [Founder + CEO, Chief Engineer] expressed a dislike of written product requirements, which Plaintiff responded to by indicating that their stance was abnormal in the field of machinery safety and of concern to him as Head of Product Safety. This interaction took place while Plaintiff was on-site in California."
Previously:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43809460 Figure 'exaggerating' humanoid fleet deployment at BMW
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39611184 Figure AI threatens lawsuit to suppress reporting
The legal accusations from the whistleblower smell like a disgruntled worker blackmailing a company. No human skulls were fractured. No one was injured.
A robot's maximum strength was tested, and people got scared.
"Figure AI sued [by] whistleblower [who] warned [that startup's] robots [could] 'fracture a human skull'