加州试图叫停人机笼斗：Rek 收到停业令
California is trying to shut down robot vs. human cage matches
加州体育竞技委员会向人形机器人格斗联盟 Rek 发出停止函，要求其未经批准不得在加州举办或宣传任何涉及人类的拳击、综合格斗比赛。9 月 18 日 Rek 让人类 Frankie LaPenna 对阵一台由人通过 VR 远程操控的机器人，Rek CEO Cix Liv 于 9 月 30 日在 X 上公开了这封信。Rek 下一场计划于周五举行，由两台带武器的机器人对战。
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