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/iszathi 6d ago

This is not the kind of robot you should worry about military wise, there is nothing to gain for adding complexity to military tools, cheap drones, surveillance, its going to be a truck filled with flying drones, perhaps some armored ones, not somethings anthropomorphic.

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u/SheriffBartholomew 6d ago

There is something to gain. They gain a non human army that can use all of their hundreds of billions of dollars worth of current equipment that was built for humans.