California is trying to shut down robot vs. human cage matches

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The California State Athletic Commission sent a cease-and-desist missive to a startup that hosted a lucifer betwixt a quality and a robot past month, as reported by The New York Times.

The fight, which took spot connected September 18th, pitted a human, Frankie LaPenna, against a humanoid robot owned by a tech startup, Rek, that was being piloted by a quality utilizing what the NYT described arsenic a "remote virtual-reality system." Rek says it is the "the humanoid robot warring league" connected its website, and the robot appears to beryllium 1 from EngineAI but with a Terminator-like caput swapped connected top.

You tin ticker a replay of the combat on YouTube: