"In a video posted to Instagram, EngineAI CEO Zhao Tongyang geared up in leg, stomach, and head pads. Workers taunted him, asking if he was nervous. The company's T800 robot then appeared to kick Tongyang in the stomach, and he can be seen falling to the ground. "Too violent!" Tongyang said in a translation. "Too brutal!" The video featuring its CEO came after EngineAI posted a separate video of its humanoid robot doing kicks and flips."
"Online skeptics made accusations that the bot in the video was CGI, so the company's next video showed the robot landing a kick to the CEO's stomach. In a comment under its latest video, EngineAI wrote that the startup was "curious" what it felt like for the T800 to kick someone, so they did an "experiment" to find out. The video has since amassed over 17,000 likes on Instagram."
EngineAI released a video showing CEO Zhao Tongyang wearing protective pads as its T800 humanoid robot kicked him in the stomach, causing him to fall and exclaim "Too violent!" and "Too brutal!" The clip followed an earlier video of the robot performing kicks and flips that prompted online accusations of CGI, leading the company to stage an experiment demonstrating a physical kick. The CEO-kick video has gathered thousands of likes. EngineAI raised $180.69 million in December 2025 from HPR Capital, Tsinghua Holdings Capital, and Henan Investment Group and plans scenario-based verification and large-scale deployment in 2026.
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