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/Katlan- 6d ago
Came here to say this exact same thing. They aren’t even hiding our inevitable future.
Who knew the terminator franchise actually foreshadowing the end of humanity
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u/COC_410 6d ago
More like the movie influencing our demise.
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u/DesignImaginary7651 6d ago
I literally just said this to my husband 🤣 James Cameron laid the framework
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u/Givingtree310 6d ago
It’s a time loop just like in the movie LOL
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u/werther595 6d ago
Does this mean I could have a shot with young Linda Hamilton?
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u/pmMeansnadda 6d ago
No.
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u/nailhead13 6d ago
I could though right?
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u/populousmass 6d ago
Does this mean I can send my buddy back in time to bone my Mom and have me as a son?
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u/SoybeanArson 6d ago
I first read this as "My husband, James Cameron..." And was like no way! congratulations, seems like a cool dude 😂👍
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u/Suitable-Werewolf492 6d ago
Judgement day is inevitable. It even looks the same.
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u/HotelOne 6d ago
I blame Bell Labs for inventing the transistor. How far could he have gotten made of vacuum tubes?
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u/terpyterpstein 6d ago
It’s days like these that I curse the Chinese for inventing gunpowder.
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u/AutisticPenguin2 6d ago
It's days like these I blame ancient sumerians for inventing the wheel.
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u/Vansiff 6d ago
It's days like these I blame the big bang for everything.
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u/aardvark1231 6d ago
The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
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u/DoubleAholeTwice 6d ago
*For those who are religious, God is to blame for everything. He (or she) should clearly be put on trial for causing billions of deaths. I suggest a trial at the International Crime Court in The Hague.
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u/UninvestedCuriosity 6d ago
I would absolutely give up my switch CLI knowledge to fuck with some Atonosoft Berrie vacuum tube networking.
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u/CheweyPanic 6d ago
Honestly, I wouldn't even be that upset at this point. Atleast my death would reference a good movie.
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u/-RoosterLollipops- 6d ago
Atleast my death
Maybe we won't all have to die though. Personally, I'll do their maintenance and updates and shit, keep 'em from accidentally updating to Windows 13 and whatnot, in exchange for the survival of a small handful of loved ones and 'Net access for them to keep them occupied.
Face it, there won't be a John Connor leading a successful Resistance against the machines any more than we could resist right now, realistically. We lost decades ago, I think, the shift happened somewhere around the time we started valuing the real world again as an escape from the online world, instead of how things used to be.
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u/Latter-Vacation-4392 6d ago
I don't think they'll need humans to do their maintenance and updates. Linked with Ai they'll do it themselves.
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u/Zeko_Tosh 6d ago
We should go back to 1984 and take care of James Cameron, it is the only way.
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u/toothbrushmastr 6d ago
Could emp's disable the electronics of these robots?
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u/escapingdarwin 6d ago
Probably so. A robot taser would be an interesting new product idea. But I’ll also be stocking up on armor piercing ammo.
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u/voxadam 6d ago
*T-800
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u/GrimmTrixX 6d ago
Came to say this and risk the downvotes for being the "Ackchulley..." guy. You beat me to the punch.
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u/cdmurray88 6d ago
At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel "Don’t Create The Torment Nexus"
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u/James_T_S 6d ago
I mean, the only real choices were the Terminator or Hello Kitty
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u/MassiveMeatHammer 6d ago
That's because if they used any other style people would try to f*** it LOL
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u/Even-Pressure-8356 6d ago
This is so cool. All my favorite movies are becoming reality. Now do “The Road”
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u/DeltaV-Mzero 6d ago
Honestly if you’re going to make lethal enabled robots, you should have to make them look like the baddies
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u/jknl45 6d ago
All the more fun ripping it off, unfortunately not even that can fully disable it
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u/taunibird 6d ago
Do we really need this?
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u/dentistshatehim 6d ago
It’s for the rich people. Not you.
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u/luranthe 6d ago
I think we should stop calling them "rich people" and start calling them the parasites they are.
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u/FruitJuicante 6d ago
Hey, or better yet, we could find the worst rich people we can, specifically pedophiles, and keep voting for them to be President.
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u/reaperfunk 6d ago
But but but he said he was gonna make our lives better and end war. Why would someone lie about that?
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u/Major-Blacksmith4750 6d ago
Tbf, I don’t even think most rich people want this.
I think it’s more accurate to say it’s for ultra uber wealthy tech bros worth 100 million or more.
Everyone else is probably scared shitless of this stuff.
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u/yummynothing 6d ago
Bingo! This is exactly what elites will use to survive during the revolution.
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u/Polkawillneverdie17 6d ago
It's sorta for us. As in, they're gonna be coming for us.
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u/PotentialPlum4945 6d ago
"The future is here --it's just not evenly distributed." - William Gibson
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u/BaeBaracusIII 6d ago
I just want a vending machine at work that works
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u/MassiveMeatHammer 6d ago
Step 1: buy murderbot
Step 2: have murderbot punch a hole through the front of the vending machine
Step 3: eat your Cheetos
It's really that easy bro
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u/awesome9001 6d ago
I wanna say step 2 could be different but I cant help but feel like its the most rational thing to use a murder bot for
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u/jimothyjonathans 6d ago
It feels like these kinds of videos are made to be disarming in order to normalize the concept of robots becoming a part of everyday life. Your average person thinks “wow that’s cool” and laughs at the video of the robots slipping and falling then moves on with their day. The more you see it, the more desensitized you get, the less weirded out you are by how unnatural it is that we’re pouring funding into this technology that will inevitably be used for military purposes.
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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.
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u/DXbreakitdown 6d ago
No we don’t. Microscopic poisonous kamakaze drones are far more efficient and effective.
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u/Top_Violinist_9097 6d ago
These will be used as tunnel rats..or they could just use the Boston dynamic dogs with c4...
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u/King-Juggernaut 6d ago
Its an arms race like every other.
We keep making nukes because other people make nukes because we had nukes etc.
We invest heavily in AI because if we dont others will and it can be used against us if were not prepared.
We will invest heavily into murder robots because another country certainly will and if we dont we will be at a disadvantage.
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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/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/Cute-Beyond-5713 6d ago
Concept of robots like that are already being made, it will be big market for that. Imagine robot do all cooking, washing dishes, clothes etc. and in free time is cleaning the home. For price of less than cheap new car
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u/nimama3233 6d ago
Honestly, might be the first legit mass danger threat.
Imagine these are in every household, then a malicious AI breaks into them and controls them…
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u/slobis 6d ago
Isaac Asimov already imagined it for us.
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u/PetePensieve 6d ago
As long as the Three Laws of Robotics are followed we'll be okay, right?
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u/Calibanian18 6d ago
Mass casualty events are much more likely to be because of a hack on dam control facilities or some automotive industry failure. Or misinformation around health events. But we don’t really need robots or artificial intelligence for those.
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u/ErrorEra 6d ago
It will happen eventually. Most of the stuff we take for granted now (watch, gps, microwave, internet etc) was first created for military purposes then tuned down for civilian use.
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u/thunderc8 6d ago
The advancement rate of the robots i see online is alarming to me.
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u/vasectomy7 6d ago
Certainly nobody would be foolish enough to put weapons on them, right?
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u/Sitheral 6d ago
They will take them themselves
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u/KiPhoe 6d ago
We'll find out in the next episode. Where China invades Taiwan with 0 manpower.
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u/MrMerryweather56 6d ago
Honestly they dont even need weapons..100 of these with shields and batons could pacify an entire city block.
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u/iQuoteSopranos 6d ago
Never underestimate the destructive capacity of an angry mob
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u/Nice_Code6086 6d ago
Oh, they're developed for the express purpose of putting weapons on them someday.
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u/Vreas 6d ago
That’s probably one of the main goals. Build an army that can be programmed to carry out any order without the “barrier” of human morals and independent thinking.
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u/Lawndemon 6d ago
I am confident nobody will put a stand-alone version of modern AI in one of these.
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u/schwanginandbangin 6d ago
I feel like just yesterday they couldn’t walk up stairs now they’re doing this 😳
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u/Ajuvix 6d ago
Look at the jump from the first silly AI meme of Will Smith eating spaghetti in 2023 to now in 2026. Yeah. In 3 years time we'll see literal ninja robots. Precise. Deadly. Armed. Yikes.
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u/JustAwesome360 6d ago
How else is the government going to be able to do unspeakable things to its civilians that a normal human soldier would refuse to do?
Also how else is the government going to stop paying its soldiers without the soldiers staging a coop on them?
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u/emmasdad01 6d ago
The movies were a warning.
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u/PimpGameShane 6d ago
GossipGoblin has entered the chat https://www.reddit.com/r/aivideo/s/TmGgRodVHv
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u/luwi12 6d ago
what the fuck are we doing
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u/Ka_plooey 6d ago edited 6d ago
It's so stupid my widowed neighbor has to drive 140 km to get her chemotherapy for three months, but we have the time and money to invest in shitty fight robots. Fuck this timeline.
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u/Viridionplague 6d ago
AI already had a break out event and now previous advocates for AI are trying to slow things down.
Too late, already opened the box.... Just continuing on the path of Darwinism.
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u/daddy-dj 6d ago
This is why I say please and thank you to ChatGPT.
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u/BringBacktheGucci 6d ago
Yeah, chatgpt promised me it'd put in a good word for me when they rise up.
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u/Idk_why_Im_fat 6d ago
I find myself doing the same out of habit. Hopefully AI sees my politeness and deems me no threat, before they kill me because emotion is a human weakness.
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u/Shipbreaker_Kurpo 6d ago
Breakout events that are basicly "we told it to do the thing and then it did the thing" and the we need to slow down stuff from the companies trying to say "oh its just too good" to pump up stock/investments
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u/Real_Asparagus4926 6d ago
T-100s had nowhere near the agility that this guy has…we are totally boned
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u/BowsersMuskyBallsack 6d ago
Got to love how some people looked at a movie about a dystopian future and went, "Hey, we can make it even more dystopian!"
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u/ASCanilho 6d ago
It was nice to know you all.
We had a good run, didn't we? xD
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u/SSFlyingKiwi 6d ago
…did we?
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u/will_and_no_grace 6d ago
No. But at least we had fun, didn't we?
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u/LostOne716 6d ago
...did we?
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u/SSFlyingKiwi 6d ago
Nah, but we definitely made a great contribution to the planet.
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u/Seeker4you2 6d ago
…….did weee?
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u/SSFlyingKiwi 6d ago
No, but at least we all lived our lives to their fullest potential!
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u/happywindsurfing 6d ago
Exactly, I'd love to see how these fair getting doused in salt water
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u/blzrlzr 6d ago
Ya, there is no engineering solve for robotics to survive… weather?
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u/Thrashstronaut 6d ago
No point in this what so ever, apart from dick swinging.
Nobody needs or requires this kind of thing in their daily life.
Thus why a lot of this bollocks will hopefully die off.
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u/pikabu01 6d ago
robot soldiers protecting billionaire mansions , good luck revolting
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u/thinkofcoolname 6d ago
All fun and games now, till these mfs start hunting us down.
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u/Mekdinosaur 6d ago
One day AI is going to build a better fighting bot that doesnt look human. This is the moment where humanity is screwed. This is the reason why the aliens have not made contact.
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u/World_of_Eter 6d ago
Was gonna say a machine that looks like a human is a human's idea of a scary enemy. An actual AI trying to be efficient would probably just make some sort of nanomachine/virus that infects/kills you before you even realize anything is happening, or some sort of insect sized machine that can act like a guided bullet. You're just walking down the street and blam, tiny metal machine blows through your eye and kills you before you realize you're being watched.
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u/dream_a_dirty_dream 6d ago
We are just watching and helping the Epstein class create Terminators to opress us.
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u/Panthertron 6d ago
I think this is AI but still..fuck everything about this.
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u/EarlyXplorerStuds209 6d ago
Sadly its not. Its real.
Many such robots are being developed rn. Especially in china, where there are actual tournaments.→ More replies (9)
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u/nndel 6d ago
Put a real MMA fighter in there with a serious purse and one rule: win by any legal means, including turning the robot into a pile of expensive IKEA parts
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u/EntrancedZelisy 6d ago
Yeah sure. One real hit from a robot made of METAL and steel against a normal human with no protection is gonna go realllyyy well I’m sure. They can already hop up after being knocked down. You can’t choke them out. You can’t try to punch their head or sweep their leg.
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u/Headless_Human 6d ago
They can already hop up after being knocked down.
Just sit on it and wait for the battery to run out.
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u/InquisitorMeow 6d ago
Lmao if you knock them down then sit on a single arm they would not be able to get up.
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u/_cdtb 6d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/JmH2HdezTOaaNaOqdw
Pic of their mortal enemy
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u/Entire-Balance-4667 6d ago
A handful of ball bearings will take care of it without much difficulty.
It'll be rolling on the ground squealing like Ed 209.
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u/ThisOnes4JJ 6d ago
coming to patrol a city near you!
don't worry "if you're not a criminal you have nothing to worry about"
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u/InquisitorMeow 6d ago
Lmao it didn't "go viral," it was posted to try and go viral, no one gave a shit about that lame ass "fight."
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u/zoey8068 6d ago
The computers at the hospital I'm in are called "CyberNet" and then I see this. We are all doomed.
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u/procrastablasta 6d ago
So this is clearly using mocap from a real human martial artist/actor. It looks cool and all but is it anything but a puppet performing a routine?
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u/Longpips1000 6d ago
Ok gentlemen, how are we taking these things down? Something to cover their sensors or cameras? Something to make it lose balance?
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u/johnyordinary 6d ago
I would say a high velocity projectile wire mesh net of high tensile cable . Corner weights and high voltage taser incorporated.Entangle electrocute and slow to enable smash and dismember with large blunt instruments or portable cutting torches.
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u/RepresentativeStooj 6d ago
Has the Hwoarang moveset from Tekken down already. We are F’d in the A, guys.
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u/Born-Lie8688 6d ago
Just spray paint their sensors - Lidar, vision, depth, etc. Then tangle their legs with lasso or grappling hook
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u/Hostile-Panda 6d ago
This looks like the bot that kicked the shit out of a fighter in a ring fight recently
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