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California regulators halt human-versus-robot cage fight
Original: California regulators sent a cease-and-desist to fight promoters who pitted a human against several robot combatants in a San Francisco cage fight. https://nyti.ms/4hFgvyc
California regulators issued a cease-and-desist against promoters who organized an event in San Francisco in which a human fighter faced several combat robots in a cage fight. The intervention underscores how existing athletic sanctioning rules are being applied to unusual human-versus-machine contests, raising questions about safety oversight and how such novelty spectacles should be regulated.
Why now: The unusual spectacle of a human fighting robots, and the regulatory crackdown it triggered, is drawing wide attention.
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