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Sat, Sep 19, 2026 · Start time not announced · San Francisco octagon · San Francisco · US
- Date
- Sat, Sep 19, 2026
- Start
- Not announced
- Where
- San Francisco octagon · San Francisco · US
- Listing
- Reported
About this event
The first public human-versus-humanoid fight staged by an American promotion. REK's earlier events were robot against robot; this one put a person in the cage with the machine, which is what made the size of a full-scale humanoid legible to an audience for the first time. This site carried 21 September until 26 September 2026. That was the date REK released video of the fight, not the date of the fight: reports of the outcome were already published at two in the morning, San Francisco time, on the 21st. REK's own record of its events dates the fight 19 September, and that is what this page now says.
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Reported result
Frankie LaPenna, a boxer, went into an octagon with a 1.83-metre EngineAI T800 and was put down by it.
The machine was not autonomous. A human operator drove it in real time from the edge of the cage through a VR headset and motion controllers, while the robot's own systems held its balance and corrected its posture — so what the video shows is one person fighting another through a machine.
REK published no scorecard, no round structure and no injury report, and the footage that circulated runs about 45 seconds. It is recorded here as an exhibition for that reason: it happened, it is worth having, and it is not a sanctioned result.
Recorded as prose because this site’s table pairs two named robots, and the machines in this one were not named. The card goes in when they are.
Coverage
Schedule reported by the organizer. Times can move — check the source before travelling.