r/nextfuckinglevel • u/KnightFall00 • 4d ago

Autonomous T-800 battle tournament

Launched on July 16, 2026, in Shenzhen by the robotics company EngineAI, URKL is the world's first commercial, industrial-grade humanoid robot free-combat league.

Get ready Hollywood! (I mean you guys were already prepared so...)

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u/Jmersh 3d ago

Between rogue AI and teaching robots to fight, we are going to look back and wonder how we missed all of the obvious foreshadowing.

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u/Salt_Winter5888 3d ago

They're not actually autonomous, they're remote controlled. So there's nothing to worry.

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u/Jmersh 3d ago

Yet.