Now we've got robots that can chase and kick us — is this the robot revolution we signed up for?

A robot may not injure a human being, at least according to the late science fiction author Isaac Asimov. It's a rule that the EngineAI T800 robot may have missed, as evidenced by the "combat robot" forcefully kicking its company's CEO in a now-viral video.

This is apparently the season of running, punching, and kicking down the doors of humanoid robots, a period that closely follows the time of a safe embrace from a variety of fabric-covered humanoids.

Let's focus, first, on the somewhat startling video from EngineAI, which was actually a response to claims that a previous video showing their T800 forcefully pounding a punching bag, kicking down doors, running, and pulling off round-house kicks was AI- or CGI-generated.