Predator is a steel humanoid that got knocked to the floor repeatedly this week & stood back up unassisted every time. Fall recovery is harder than walking, & it's the part worth watching. Upright locomotion is a balance problem with a known starting state. A fall erases that. Predator lands in an arbitrary orientation, has to reconstruct its position from its own sensors, then sequence dozens of joints through a push-up while its center of mass moves the entire time. One error & it's back down. It did this under adversarial conditions, against Frankie LaPenna trying to prevent it. To be clear about what's being measured: REK's founder told NBC News these robots aren't autonomous. They are "100 percent" human pilots in VR headsets. So Predator is testing teleoperation latency, impact tolerance & balance recovery, not machine decision-making. Which makes it a more honest benchmark than most. Lab demos happen on flat floors under controlled conditions. You can't stage a knockdown from someone actively fighting you. Getting up is the gate on humanoids working anywhere near people. Predator cleared it in public, repeatedly, on video. 🦾

Predators weaponizing private images deserve serious jail time. We introduced the Responding to Exploitation and Sharing of Private Explicit Content and Threats (RESPECT) Act to crack down even harder on those who share or threaten to share private explicit images, including revenge p*rn and AI-generated deepfakes. Our bill increases maximum sentences to up to 5 years for adult victims and up to 10 years when the victim is a minor. No more slaps on the wrist. No more free passes. Predators belong behind bars.

Child predators cannot hide from us. @HSI_HQ, alongside state and local partners, arrested 70 child predators in Mississippi - including illegal aliens. We will never stop working to hunt down these revolting freaks and protect our nation's children.

🚨MAJOR CHILD PREDATOR STING BUSTED DISNEY EMPLOYEES LED THE ARRESTS Polk County just announced 281 arrests. 31 traveled to have sex with children. 17 were theme park workers. Disney led with 13, Universal had 4. They already had 798 prior charges. Now they’re facing 488 more. One was a youth coach who offered to pick up a 14-year-old from school.