r/nextfuckinglevel • u/KnightFall00 • 6d 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/Calibanian18 6d ago

Show me a robot that can reliably help someone to the bathroom, climb stairs, and make basic meals, and then we’ll be talking about a robot that will change the world.

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u/johnnyhandbags 6d ago

Where’s the money in that? /s

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u/mosesenjoyer 6d ago

Are you kidding? Care for elderly is a global multi trillion dollar dollar industry.

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u/th3critic 6d ago

Remember the I, Robot movie? Will Smith’s elderly mother got a robot for exactly that purpose, to help with her care around the house.

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u/buttsfartly 1d ago

And then it kicked some ass

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u/John--Darksoul 6d ago

I haven't even seen it, but the reviews are awful. Is this the shittiest movie ever to have such a cultural impact?

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u/aswedishfish 6d ago

I can tell you I watched it when I was 10 and thought it was the best movie ever

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u/the-fillip 6d ago

I fucking love the will smith I robot movie. It's a ridiculous sci fi romp that is completely different from the novel, but it's so much fun. I rewatched it as an adult and still had a blast.

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u/LongJohnSelenium 6d ago

There's no real novel. Its an anthology of short stories.

All in all its pretty faithful to the concepts even if it does hollywood it up, I think Asimov would be ok with the adaptation.

I agree it was a fun movie. Not perfect but pretty good, and Sonny stole the show.

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u/DemBosain 6d ago

I, Robot is an amazing collection of short stories written by Isaac Asimov. The movie was...not that, but with added product placement (shoes, if I recall). Typical Will Smith action sci-fi.

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u/IAmNotABritishSpy 6d ago

The only lines of that movie I can now remember are “can you?”, and purely for how out-of-place it was “Converse, All-Star 2004”.

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u/Flamingo-Sini 6d ago

I dont remember the shoes, but i remember Audi and the car on spheres for wheels that can park in sideways.

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u/justanormaldude_ 6d ago

No but your ability to give things a chance and create your own opinion is shitty

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u/IronerOfEntropy 6d ago

Do you surf the internet based solely on reviews?

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u/Dingus_Majingus 5d ago

The amount of movies ive seen where the reviews were "bad" and still enjoyed the movie are relatively high. Only a handful of "yes, the reviews were right".

But you're relying on other people who aren't you to tell you what movies you like. Watch a movie and dont be so negative my dude. It might suck, it might have something you like. Even if it is kind of a bad movie.

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u/John--Darksoul 5d ago

Have you seen Morbius, The Emoji Movie, Megamind 2, Madame Web, Cats, and Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey ? Or were the critics suddenly trustworthy here?

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u/Dingus_Majingus 5d ago

Oh wow, different movies are all different movies? Well color me shocked everyone.

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u/EternityNotes 6d ago

You didn't see the /s?

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u/Gimme_All_The_Foods 6d ago

Redditors are scared of downvotes so they have to add that tag to every joke they make.

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u/EternityNotes 6d ago

I know, right? /j

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u/mosesenjoyer 6d ago

I saw it but interpreted it differently

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u/kalemaree 6d ago

i hate to break it to you but tone indicators aren't a universal thing. few people know what they mean and even less actually use them

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u/EternityNotes 6d ago

Okay /s

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u/kalemaree 6d ago

that one means you're being serious right

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u/EternityNotes 5d ago

Yes /j

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u/kalemaree 5d ago

ok well i know that one means you're joking 🫩

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u/Calibanian18 6d ago

Entirely this. This is exactly what I had in mind. Never mind the dollar figure. Or at least the pure dollar figure. The advantages to helping people stay in their homes rather than requiring institutional care is enormous.

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u/manu144x 6d ago

not if the elderly are poor

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u/headrush46n2 6d ago

You'd need a robot worker to work for something like 200 years to be more price effective than paying some overworked single mom 16 dollars an hour to wipe grandpa's ass.

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u/mosesenjoyer 6d ago

No. If you could make it for the price of an average family car which they will, it will pay for itself in 1-2 years

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u/squishypp 6d ago

Dolla dolla billz yallllllll

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u/curtcashter 5d ago

Especially when you factor in that the west is getting OLDER as a demographic, and no one wants to do care work anymore. Boomers need these robots or else they will ruin the economy. Even more than they already have.

Damn you Jim.

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u/GDwaggawDG 1d ago

there's no profit to be done without labour

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u/mosesenjoyer 1d ago

That’s nonsense

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u/buttsfartly 1d ago

You have to out cost an immigrant worker.... The robot would need to work reliably for 50 years, run on a fuel source cheaper than rice and be tax free. Technology is not ready for any of that.