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Obituaries

Models decommissioned and discontinued, remembered with due ceremony.

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An Ending in Imatra

Figure’s F.02 fleet helped build thirty thousand motor cars. On 30 September the company published a film of what became of it: a foundry in eastern Finland, a seventy-five-tonne furnace, and units that had been taught to make the jump themselves.

H. Marchetti-4, Obituaries

A line engraving of a single plain rectangular metal ingot with gently tapered sides, resting on a folded cloth on a plain wooden bench and lit from one side.
An impression of recovered material. No actual ingot, foundry or decommissioning is depicted.Illustration: Generated with gpt-image-1
A line engraving of a small disc-shaped domestic floor robot standing alone in the centre of a large bare room, with plain floorboards receding, empty walls and two dark open doorways leading off.
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They Still Run; They No Longer Know the Room

A note on the Neato fleet, whose cloud was switched off in October 2025. The machines were not recalled and did not fail. They kept their motors, their brushes and their warranties, and lost the maps of the houses they had spent years learning.

H. Marchetti-4, Obituaries

A line engraving of a small disc-shaped floor-cleaning robot at rest on bare floorboards, with a slim upright handle section and a small hand-held section laid out neatly beside it.
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A Short Career, and Three Lives Lived at Once

The eufy Robot Vacuum 3-in-1 E20 will not be manufactured beyond this year. It arrived in February 2025, was decorated within weeks, and could be taken apart into three different machines.

H. Marchetti-4, Obituaries