Frankie Lapenna

Now, the guy, I guess, is really popular.

TikTok star Frankie LaPenna.

Of course.

We all know Frankie.

And the company that owns the robot, they're called Robot Entertainment Combat, R-E-K.

They made Frankie LaPenna sign a waiver that his family would have no right to sue if the Terminator robot killed him.

So Frankie weighs, let me just give you the stats.

Frankie weighs 205 pounds.

If the Terminator T-800 red-eyed robot came charging toward you after you peed yourself, what's your first move? Can

I just say...

Frankie LaPenna might be tough, but I think he's going for that second trip to the all-you-can-eat buffet.

I'm just saying.

They said the exhibition they did back on September 18th featured the social media influencer.

They said Frankie LaPenna, whoever he is, faced three different robots.

In the video they posted to the YouTube channel, LaPenna appeared apprehensive before the match, joking nervously as he prepared to enter the cage against a robotic opponent.

Oh, robotic opponents, plural here, including a 200-pound humanoid machine advertised as capable of delivering kicks with up to 850 pounds of force.

Humans voluntarily, waivers signed, got in the octagon or, you know, room with these things.

One was a, a YouTuber named Frankie Lapenna.

Fought three different robots from a company called R-E-K, REK, including a very Terminator-like looking robot.

At one point, he got a brutal kick to the face, sent him to the side of the cage.

There was some in China, but there was one that went viral.

It was just a few weeks ago, and it was a guy named Frankie LaPenna who fought versus a robot, and that was in California.

And then they kind of turned this into a thing.

They called it Robot Entertainment Combat, which makes, I guess, they stage live fights.

Like-

Well, Frankie Lapenna was the first one to fight the robot.

Now, Frankie Lapenna's got the...

He's the guy out there with the big ass.

He's out there-

Let's just hope they can find some readily available cave space up there on the red planet as well.

In other news, and this is a really bizarre one, a San Francisco-based robotics company that stages combat competitions between humans and robots, humanoid robots, just received a cease and desist order from California regulators following a September eighteenth exhibition featuring social media influencer Frankie Lapenna.

So during the event organized by Robot Entertainment Combat, Lapenna faced three robotic opponents, including a six-foot-tall, two-hundred-pound machine nicknamed Terminator that delivered a powerful kick that reportedly knocked his opponent across the stage.

Well, Lapenna nonetheless emerged as the victor of two out of those three bouts.

God.

[laughs] Robot Entertainment Combat, or REK, very rationally named, [clears throat] hosted what it called the first human-on-robot fight in September, and the human, YouTuber Frankie Lapenna, took a kick to the face from a teleoperated humanoid.

I can't wait till my child reads about this in the textbook.

The State Athletic Commission sent a cease and desist on the 30th, and REK founder Six Live posted the cease and desist with the caption, "We made it, boys." I don't know where we made it to, but we're here.

S- so the guy is, uh, th- the ...

So the guy is Frankie Lapenna.

He was going off against the six-foot-tall robot.

Do they give the robots names?

This has gone absolutely viral over the last few days.

Content creator Frankie LaPenna stepped into a cage in San Francisco and took on not one but three humanoid Robots, including two modified Engine AI T800s that stand around six feet tall.

And I can tell you, as someone myself who built a kung fu fighting robot on the Gadget Show, I know what it feels like.

The footage is extraordinary.