The Super Bowl wasn’t the only sporting event that drew excited fans to the Bay Area last weekend. An event at a much smaller venue in San Francisco was hailed as the future of combat sports: virtual reality-controlled humanoid robots boxing in a cage.
The match was organized by Rek, a San Francisco-based company, and drew hundreds of spectators who had paid about $60–$80 for a ticket to watch modified G1 robots go at each other. Made by Unitree, the dominant Chinese robot maker, they…

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