Robots & Artificial IntelligenceExclusive: Inside San Francisco’s Robot Fight Club Posted on August 13, 2025 by Administrator For the past few months, Cix Liv – real name – has been operating his company REK out of a no-frills warehouse space off Van Ness in San Francisco. The office has a couple of makeshift desks with computers and a bunch of virtual reality headsets on some shelves. More to the point, REK also has four humanoid-style robots hanging from gantries, and they’ve been outfitted with armor, boxing gloves, swords and backstories.