World's First Human Vs. Robot MMA Fight Sees TikToker Get Quickly Destroyed By A Terminator-Like T-800
REK said the exhibition was the first Human vs. Robot fight, and a human operator remotely controlled the 6-foot machine.
- On September 18, influencer Frankie LaPenna stepped into a San Francisco cage to fight an EngineAI T800 humanoid robot organized by Robot Entertainment Kombat .
- Robot Entertainment Kombat organized the match to promote its virtual reality game, deploying a remote-controlled Rekbot standing 1.8m tall and weighing up to 85kg.
- A viral 42-second clip has garnered nearly 50 million views on Instagram, showing LaPenna, who has over 20 million followers, squaring off against the machine.
- Online commentary reflected dystopian fears, with one viewer asking: "Why is it we create the most dystopian future in films and then make it reality?".
- REK teased "more" to come soon, indicating the Rekbot "wasn't even the final boss," while the company considers pitting its robots against professional mixed martial arts fighters.
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The influencer Frankie LaPenna enters the cage and tries to hit the humanoid, which cashes and responds with a series of kicks until it gets to the ground. The challenge took place on September 18 in San Francisco and was organized by REK, Robot Entertainment Kombat, who presented it as the first fight between a person and a humanoid robot. LaPenna, contrary to what has been reported in some reconstructions, is an American creator. The decisive …
Robot Dominates Influencer in World's First-Ever 'Human vs. Robot' Cage Fight
Influencer Frankie LaPenna fought a remote-controlled humanoid robot in San Francisco, with footage showing heavy kicks and no publicly available scorecard confirming the exhibition's outcome.
Content creator Frankie LaPenna fought a REK combat robot.
American influencer Frankie LaPenna fought a robot on Friday. Footage shows the robot kicking the influencer to the ground. The fight was organized by the tech company REK to promote a virtual reality game. The robot was controlled remotely by a human.
World's First Human Vs. Robot MMA Fight Sees TikToker Get Quickly Destroyed By A Terminator-Like T-800
Terminator Schwarzenegger Well, it was just a matter of time before something like this happened. The world’s first human vs. robot MMA fight happened. And, as one should probably expect, based on past reports, the MMA fight between the human and the Terminator-like T-800 robot saw the human get quickly floored. As if we don’t have enough to worry about with robots running faster than Usain Bolt, joining police forces, begging on the streets, an…
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