The Ultimate Robot Knockout Legend (URKL) is a professional, freestyle combat sports league for full-sized humanoid robots. This is real.

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• mvirts@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  I didn’t think family matters would get a reboot

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• dave@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They seem to do more damage to themselves when falling over than actually inflicting anything on their opponent…

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  • TheRealKuni@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That’s true of a few BattleBots contenders.

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    • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Funny, too.

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• ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I can picture these wearing cop uniforms, running you down at night for jaywalking ,and believe it may be one of our possible futures.

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  • CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m pretty sure the odds of this are 100%. Except it’ll be military bots… and they’ll be purging the poor and middle class, because once you have robots to do all the other stuff the next step is to reduce the population.

    If you and your group control all the raw resources and manufacturing is fully automated, and you have robots smart enough to do all the manual tasks, you don’t need profit, you get to wipe out most of the population and create your paradise.

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    • CannonFodder@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      But everything is driven by profit. I don’t think the 1% will be able to pivot to reduced profit for better stability/comfort.

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  • jpreston2005@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    But how quickly will hackers be able to gain total control of them? Cops will probably have the administrator password as “password123” or some shit. Or maybe instead of engaging in combat directly, they’ll just be running humanoid cameras, lunging after you no matter how quickly you run, or whatever fence you jump over. Long gone will be the days when you could simply outrun the overweight, poorly trained cops. Now these things will be just inches behind you, the whole way blaring sirens and recording your every move. 😐
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  • Archimedes@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The spinning jump kick of the law.

    Stop right there! Or I won’t be able to jump kick you!

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    • qualia@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They fly now? They fly now.

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• the_xboxkiller@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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  The acronym immediately made me think of this.

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• WanderWisley@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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  I’d still put my money on a battle bot any day of the week.

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  • pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I love battle bots

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• snoons@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “What?! Your heads off!”

  “Tis’ but a flesh wound! HAVE AT YEE!”

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  • Monument@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I feel like that should be disqualifying. Or at least, the robots should be compelled to use the swinging head as a mace.

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• axx@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This looks sad. The obsession with humanoid robots is making less and less sense by the decade.

  Support your local robot battle scene.

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  • drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The obsession is actually in search of new tech markets to dominate. AI race, Ev Race, Solar Panel race, gig-economy race. There’s so much money in each of these. Sometimes early investments pay off like EV industry and sometimes they absolutely do not - gig economy race for example.

    This seems like new reality - chase to dominate big general markets and China is absolutely winning everything from EVs and solar panels to literally fishing out every fish out of existence within the next few decades if not less.

    This is really bad.

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• Dookieman12@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This show is obviously just to bait people into making better fighting robots for the military, free of charge.

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• Andonyx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Pointless if their heads don’t pop straight up and make a “ziiiiiiing” sound.

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• Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Looks real the same way WWE looks real. I mean, you gotta love the skill/tech used to achieve these feats, but real robots fighting with no restraint wouldn’t need to take a few seconds to dick around after every kick.

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• halfapage@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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  • some_designer_dude@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Best learn how to fashion an EMP cannon from household parts.

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• thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Total dogshit game

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• QueenMidna@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s very clear none of y’all remember the seminal film Real Steel

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  • QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I remember when it came out, but I only saw it last year! IT BLEW ME AWAY. I wasn’t expecting a film of that quality!

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    • meekah@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’ve seen it about a year or so after it came out. I remember it fondly, maybe I should rewatch it.

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• Samsy@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Looks like the same when I let my kids play tekken the first time.

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• Chaphasilor@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  So that’s gonna be our future. Fighting robots that uncannily get back up with their head dangling on their back.

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• peteypete420@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They way they get up is pretty cool, but they each have one jump kick attack and nothing else? Those deathbot matches from the early aughts are way cooler.

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  • BigPotato@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They learned from Mortal Combat to spam their best move.

    Turns out it’s a mirror battle.

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• Mac@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They didn’t even hit each other

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• kaklerbitmap@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Flashback to my first attempts at playing the original arcade Virtua Fighter

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• ravenaspiring@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I guess it is like watching toddlers walk, but why the random breakout into dance moves? Also how do they target? Seems like they just generally point at the other one.

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  • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    My guess is that they are remote controlled and the operators of the white robot saw that they were winning, so they hit the dance button in the hopes of scoring some points with the audience.

    Instead of fighting each other they should do a laundry folding competition. That would be really impressive!

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    • ravenaspiring@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Indeed, a fitted sheet competition!

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• lavacake1111@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Can we have Hugh Jackman pilot a robot?

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    He can’t, he’s busy fellating Rupert Murdoch.

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    • Monument@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      What?

      (Out of the loop. Don’t know how to unpack that statement.)

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• toad@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This will probably be awesome 10-20 years from now.

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  • SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    10-20 years from now, these thigs will be gunning down people in the streets

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    • toad@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Time to start designing antibot drones then I guess.

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• SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This is pretty fucking futuristic, even if they do miss each other a lot!

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  • thebestaquaman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It doesn’t look like they’re autonomous to me, it looks like they have a pre-programmed set of movements (like the kick-variants we’re seeing, and the “get up” motion), and being controlled by someone outside the ring. That also fits with the way they’re missing: it’s hard to get proper alignment when you’re looking from the side, and the pattern for how they’re missing looks a lot to me like how you often miss if you try to line up e.g. a remote controlled toy car on an opening to drive through when you’re sitting off to the side.

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    • SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Oh yeah, totally.

      Still really futuristic!

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• Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Who would watch robots fight like this. They can’t even do anything. They have no idea how to fight whoever built them has no idea how yo fight. Its like watching blind people spam moves until something lands.

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  • eyekaytee@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    For most people seeing robots even move like this at all is considered crazy

    Most people are also thinking if they have reached this point, where will they be at in 5 - 10 years

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    • Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I would agree if the movement looked dynamic.

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• Professorozone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  When I was a kid we had a game called Rockem Sockem Robots (sp?) and knocking the head of was the definition of winning.

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• wraekscadu@vargar.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This looks so fun haha

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• bandanawearingbanana@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Are they autonomous or do they have pilots? I feel like a human touch would make the fights a lot cooler. Like in that one Love, Death and Robots episode.

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  • drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    it’s fulyl autonomous and it’s just an ad for China’s upcoming robot industry. There a lot of events like that from dancing, to fighting to just doing chores. So it’s not really a market on it’s own to justify more investments and refinement - it’s just a meme.

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• betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Should get Jaleel White to host it.

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• SoloCritical@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Looks like they got a ways to go yet

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• QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  they also have computers racing 250kmph cars and 130kmph drones

  supposedly it’s streamed on YouTube but I’ve never caught one live a2rl.io

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Seems like they are given pre-programmed moves and not, like, using any sensors and logic to fight. I would have expected them to be more autonomous.

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