Behold: Video of "First-Ever" Human Versus Robot MMA Fight

Futurism on a 44-second viral clip billed as the first-ever human versus robot MMA fight: a six-foot robot from REK, a humanoid robot fighting company, fitted with a "Terminator"-like head, spars with the TikTok personality Frankie LaPenna in a plastic-lined octagon and kicks repeatedly, until a final kick sends LaPenna across the ring. Futurism doubts it was a real contest: LaPenna "clearly struggles to land a proper blow", and whether the robot really has the force to throw LaPenna across the ring with one kick "is debatable at best".

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