▲ 270 ▼ The Ultimate Robot Knockout Legend (URKL) is a professional, freestyle combat sports league for full-sized humanoid robots. This is real. (ikt.id.au) submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by eyekaytee@lemmy.world to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world 73 comments fedilink hide all child comments Welcome to the future!
[–] axx@slrpnk.net 21 points 1 month ago (1 child) This looks sad. The obsession with humanoid robots is making less and less sense by the decade. Support your local robot battle scene. permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] drmoose@lemmy.world 1 point 1 month 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 and "realpolitik" 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 1 point 1 month 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 and "realpolitik" 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. permalink fedilink source parent