AMERICANALMANAC (Jonah Adams) - Social media influencer fights six-foot robot in MMA cage — then the real story comes out
American social media influencer Frankie Lapenna stepped into an MMA cage to fight a six-foot robot built by Rek Robotics, and the machine dropped him with a jumping switch kick before the company admitted a human was controlling it the whole time. Lapenna, who built his following online, decided to square off against the robot […] The post Social media influencer fights six-foot robot in MMA cage — then the real story comes out appeared first on American Almanac .
American social media influencer Frankie Lapenna stepped into an MMA cage to fight a six-foot robot built by Rek Robotics, and the machine dropped him with a jumping switch kick before the company admitted a human was controlling it the whole time. Lapenna, who built his following online, decided to square off against the robot known as "Rekbot" in front of scores of onlookers. The stunt was billed as a test of man against machine at a moment when advances in artificial intelligence and robotics have raised real questions about what these systems can do. Before the fight started, one bystander summed up the mood. "I'm scared for you," an unidentified man told Lapenna. He probably should have been. The Sun reported that Lapenna managed…Open