加州要求 Rek 停止举办人类与机器人笼斗赛事
California is trying to shut down robot vs. human cage matches
加州州立体育委员会向初创公司 Rek 发出停止令，要求其未经批准不得在加州举办、宣传或推广涉及人类的拳击或综合格斗赛事。上个月 9 月 18 日，Frankie LaPenna 与一台由人类通过远程 VR 系统操控的人形机器人进行比赛；Rek 计划于周五举办两台机器人使用武器互斗的比赛。
Jay Peters
is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme.
The California State Athletic Commission sent a cease-and-desist letter to a startup that hosted a match between a human and a robot last month, as reported by The New York Times.
The fight, which took place on September 18th, pitted a human, Frankie LaPenna, against a humanoid robot owned by a tech startup, Rek, that was being piloted by a human using what the NYT described as a “remote virtual-reality system.” Rek says it is the “the humanoid robot fighting league” on its website, and the robot appears to be one from EngineAI but with a Terminator-like head swapped on top.
You can watch a replay of the fight on YouTube:
The CEO of Rek, Cix Liv, posted the letter to X on September 30th, which called the fight “unsanctioned” and demanded that Liv and REK stop “holding, promoting or advertising any boxing or mixed martial arts contest match, or exhibition, involving any human” in California without the approval of the California State Athletic Commission. “We made it boys,” Liv said.
Rek’s next planned match, which takes place on Friday, will feature two robots with weapons fighting each other.
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来源：The Verge · AI · theverge.com