Human vs Robot Fight at San Francisco's REK Event Hit 'Completely Different', Says Attendee
BLUECOW009 · x · 2026-09-21
An attendee recaps the human-vs-robot bout at Friday's REK robot fighting event in San Francisco: unlike robot-vs-robot matches, watching a human face a remote-controlled robot triggered real fear and relief in the crowd. The robots were teleoperated, but the kicks were genuinely powerful — a raw emotional experience the author says is categorically different from machine-on-machine bouts.
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