I wonder why Chinese company EngineAI would name their humanoid machine the T800 and then train it to fight.
Here's the company's CEO Zhao Tongyang getting kicked by it:
If you don't know, the T-800 is the model of cybernetic hunter-killer Skynet sends back to kill Sarah Conner in The Terminator.
Why would a CEO agree to get kicked by what's being heralded as the world's strongest humanoid fighting robot?
To counter claims that EngineAI is using CGI to create their robots.
Here's some behind-the-scenes footage they filmed to try to further disprove the CGI claims, which honestly looks a little CGI too.
There is also supposed video of the T800 on patrol with Chinese police, but this is about all I could find of that:
Which, much like their other models' promotional videos with the police, doesn't say too much about the robot's real capabilities.
There certainly isn't a lot of real-world, unedited footage out there of any of these bots.
What do you think?
Is the kung-fu bot real or fake?
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