‘Human vs. Robot’ cage match was a hit. Sports commission calls a foul

A human defeated two of the three robots he faced in a cage fight recently held in San Francisco. The humans behind that fight could face a battle of their own — the legal type — if they want to hold another event like “ Human Vs. Robot ,” the Sept. 18 competition that placed influencer Frankie LaPenna inside an octagon to battle three humanoid robots that were controlled remotely by a human operator in separate MMA-style fights. REK (Robot Entertainment Kombat), the “humanoid robot fighting” company that staged the event, billed it as the “first human vs.