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. 🦾