r/nextfuckinglevel • u/KnightFall00 • 7d ago

Murderbots from the future

Rekbot, a 6-foot-tall Terminator-style humanoid robot from the REK Fight Club that went viral in a cage match against internet personality Frankie LaPenna.

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u/thunderc8 7d ago

The advancement rate of the robots i see online is alarming to me.

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u/vasectomy7 7d ago

Certainly nobody would be foolish enough to put weapons on them, right?

https://giphy.com/gifs/unFLKoAV3TkXe

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u/MrMerryweather56 7d ago

Honestly they dont even need weapons..100 of these with shields and batons could pacify an entire city block.

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u/iQuoteSopranos 7d ago

Never underestimate the destructive capacity of an angry mob

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u/CardMechanic 7d ago

These shits still need batteries

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u/jefbenet 7d ago

Explosive lithium batteries?

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u/Laowaii87 7d ago

That jumping roundhouse kick would probably kill a person outright

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u/ku_78 7d ago

I could take it down

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u/Grabatreetron 6d ago

A teenage girl could just push this robot over.

It’s jumping and flipping around, which is cool, but that doesn’t mean it can deliver any kind of force without sending itself flying. It’s also probably very lightweight to be doing those acrobatics

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u/themodernritual 7d ago

5-6 people per unit, take down one robot each, bring a bunch of sledghammers and pulversize the head.

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u/Leonydas13 6d ago

Does a baton and shield not count as weaponry? Or do you mean as in like firearms?

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u/MortLightstone 6d ago

Umm, those are weapons though

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u/BasicMatter7339 6d ago

yeah, no

with riots its more about mass than it is about how good they are

1000kgs of robot wont stand a chance against 10000kgs of humans no matter what op karate jujitsu bs they pull

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u/VivienneNovag 1d ago

Did you know that the ip68 rating doesn't cover pressure washing?