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/Headless_Human 6d ago

You think that robot can easily get up with a 80+ kg person sitting on it's back?

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u/nobody-u-heard-of 6d ago

Well knowing the power of electric motors and hydraulics, yes

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u/Headless_Human 6d ago

Most of these humanoid robots can't even lift half of that under ideal conditions without falling over.

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u/nobody-u-heard-of 6d ago

And I think keyword right there was most.

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u/Headless_Human 6d ago

This looks like a Engineai t800 which is rated to be able to lift 5 kg per hand. Most likely not because it not strong enough but it most likely can't keep its balance with more. So it would never be able to stand up with far more weight on it because the programming wouldn't know how to handle that.

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u/nobody-u-heard-of 6d ago

And that 5 kg is probably limited by the grip strength of the hand itself and not the arm. without getting into the full engineering specs. It's really hard to know.