That Humanoid Fighting Robot Startup on Van Ness Just Got a Cease and Desist From the State

After a video went viral of an obviously dangerous cage match between a human and a humanoid robot, California state officials have ordered San Francisco-based Robot Entertainment Kombat to cease all such unlicensed cage fights.Robot Entertainment Kombat (REK), which just opened a storefront on Van Ness in July, is arguably one of the more bro-ishly frightening and dystopian developments on the local AI scene. The company had been marketing robot-on-robot fights for entertainment purposes, but then they got influencer Frankie LaPenna to don some (fairly minimal?) protective gear and have a cage fight last month with a six-foot-tall, Terminator-style robot. To save you the viewing if you haven t clicked play already or haven t seen this on your feed, LaPenna gets his ass kicked, quite literally every time the robot kicks he goes flying and it is nowhere near a fair fight.LaPenna is best known for goofy stunt content on TikTok, and for going on America s Got Talent to pop some ball