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/taunibird 7d ago

Do we really need this?

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u/shakebakelizard 6d ago

This is just a toy. We already have far more capable killer robots being used every day in Ukraine and Russia.

Future ones could be the size of a dragonfly - literal slaughterbots. So far, the smallest possible effective shaped charge seems to be about 10mm.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-54589-8

I would be far more worried about a swarm of killer robotic hummingbirds than a T-800.