Brutal Humanoid Robot Cage Match Stops Abruptly When One of the Robot’s Heads Pops Off

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You might wince at the professional spectacle of two humans beating each other to a pulp. But when it’s two robots? We want maximum carnage.

Thankfully, the inaugural Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend (URKL) competition in Shenzhen, China, has delivered on providing the most brutal-but-bloodless spectacle you can lay eyes on.

In a video of a cage match between two mechanical humanoids, one of the clanker combatants literally knocks its opponent’s block off by delivering a flying kick to the face.

The robot continues to fight with its head dangling from between its shoulders and throws a few punches, but not for long.

After being knocked to the ground again, it flails uncontrollably while trying to get to its feet. The violent jerking severs the cable connecting the hanging head, and the robot collapses onto the ground. The other robot, victorious, dances over its unmoving body.

According to the state-run tabloid Global Times, the URKL competition featured 32 teams from around the world who all used the T800 humanoid robot from EngineAI, a Chinese robotics company.

The point of the competition, according to EngineAI CEO Zhao Tongyang, was twofold: create a global commercial robot fighting brand and promote research and industrialization.

“Let the event feed back into technology, and let technology drive the industry,” Tongyang told Global Times.

You can’t accuse Tongyang of not putting his money where his mouth is. In a video that went viral last December, he donned a suit of armor and let himself take blows from one of his T800 robots. One kick was so powerful that it slammed him to the ground.

It’s hard to tell how much of a splash the event made in the country, but it must’ve been a wild spectacle to witness in person. Legendary martial arts movie star and filmmaker Donnie Yen was in attendance and sounded blown away by what he saw.

“Honestly, I used to see robot fighting only in science fiction movies,” Yen said at the event’s opening, per Global Times. “But today, for the first time, I got to watch real robots fighting up close.”

“The weight of the machines, the precision of their movements — it was incredible,” he added.

Martial arts is one of Chinese robot companies’ favorite ways to show off their capabilities. China stunned the world earlier this year with a televised martial arts display performed by a group of Unitree G1 robots that shared the stage with human actors.

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IN the summer of 2019, I was seated in the wine cellar of a walled Medieval town high above the Dordogne Valley of France, not far from Sarlat-la-Canéda, making phone calls, writing reports. I have given this story in other places and it appears as though you’re about to hear it again. Rob Skiba is a name you that you might be familiar with. Though he had made a name for himself as a Nephilim researcher, more recently Rob had taken a dive into the deep end of the pool via flat earth research. The recorded interviews I conducted between he and Rick Hummer, a fellow flat earth investigator and close friend of his, was published while still occupying that very wine cellar. Read all about it. Chicago Is Not a Mirage.

Word quickly spread. Within a few short weeks, dozens of flat earth researchers began accepting my invite for a private interview, if not a series of interviews. From a 17th-century tower built by King Louis XIV, and with a stunning view of the Alps, I sat down with Robbie Davidson, founder of the Flat Earth International Conferences, conducting multiple sessions. While staying in Dumfries, Scotland, David Weiss agreed to take part in the interviews, as did Bob Knodel of Globebusters. There were others. But when I asked the interviewees to discuss the moments that shaped their lives, among the many PSYOPs, false flag attacks, and hoaxes that were discussed, only these men committed commentary to the false 9/11 narrative.

The resulting recordings ballooned into The Unexpected Cosmology, a book which became a website and was even intended as an anthology. And of course, the following discourse was originally a chapter. It was Walt Disney who stated, “Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.” Those sentiments remain applicable here as well. American Sensationalism: The 9/11 Interviews was always intended to be expanded upon with the inclusion of new researchers. So I’m sorry to say the project became stagnant during the Covid-19 psychodrama. I took a break to tackle other projects. We lost Rob Skiba. Rob offered hours of private conversation regarding his life but we never got around to the big one. 9/11. It was in the cards. Sadly, Bob Knodel died soon afterwards. Voices are being squeezed from an entire generation. Gnosis passes with them.

In the aftermath, the FE community became fractured. People began going their separate ways. Robbie Davidson, among a noted few others who were interviewed for the project, got up and left the movement altogether. It is not my intent to erase his or the contributions of others if only brief. They came, they went, their testimonies remain.

The original vision may have hit roadblocks but it is not forgotten. I expanded this paper a few years later to include testimony from author Pauly Hart, a dear friend of mine. I had wanted to continue that trend every year thereafter but you know how it goes. For the 25th anniversary of the attack I have redirected my efforts to its first large scale expansion, including Andrew Hoy and Darrin Geisinger into the mix. Perhaps others will lend their experiences to the recorder in time.

The following is their report.

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