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Comment by rcarmo | Hacker News Reader

Well, as long as it doesn't start developing anatomically accurate metal skeletons with red glowing eyes...

Humans allegedly already took care of that

Getting roundhouse kicked to extinction woudl not be an unfun way to go. We might even be proud of having passed the torch. These would not be boring inheritors to earth.

All those kids who spent their youth breaking plywood kung-fu style might just save us.

Is there any more footage of the actual fight?

I honestly feel the human should be allowed to pick some (not fire) weapons, like a long steel bo stick, a metal club/bat, or something.

Because from what I saw in the clip, it wasn't the robot kicks or punches at all, all the robot needed to do is stay upright and not run out of battery, because of course human meat limbs aren't going to punch and kick down a metal machine.

Seems too complex when you can just create a basic metal casing that can kill people. Why would they care if its anatomically accurate or not, it doesn't need us to relate to the characters like the movies do

https://xkcd.com/652/

The following might sound like pop culture Mad Libs but it's 100% true.

The Jurassic Park guy [1] directed an 80s sci-fi film [2] about malfunctioning domestic robots. I saw a few minutes of it on cable in the late 90s. There's a scene [3] where Magnum PI does battle with an overhead projector on wheels that has a .38 duck-taped to it in the distantly-future year 1991. The movie was about as good as the robot was menacing, which is to say it wasn't. The critics didn't think so either.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaway_(1984_American_film)

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q493OCr0piY

I remember that movie. Gene Simmons from Kiss was the bad guy. He made a self propelled bullet of some sort that could target specific people.

Its more of a living tissue over metal endoskeleton.

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