Meet Jake the Robot - aka Rizzbot. The Rizzbot is all over TikTok, insulting and rizzing up the ladies, throwing up middle fingers, dancing, and fainting — all while wearing a chain, Nike Dunks, a cowboy hat, and belting out a very memorable laugh.
Since July 2025, Rizzbot videos have been going viral every other day, with clips of the robotic Casanova racking up upwards of 45 million views on TikTok. One of Rizzbot's latest clips features a woman twerking on the mechanical contraption before it thrusts its pelvic area on the woman's behind. This video has reached 1.1 million views and counting.
Now, sitting at 1.8 million followers on TikTok, many questions began to swirl around Jake the Rizzbot's origins. Questions like "Who owns the Rizzbot?," "Who created the Rizzbot?" and "What is the Rizzbot?" have all been asked.
But worry not, Complex spoke with Kyle Morganstein, a PhD student in the Human Centered Robotics Lab at the University of Texas at Austin, who trained the robot, to answer these questions so you don't have to.
Here is all the information we've found regarding Rizzbot, the viral, disrespectful robot rizzing up your girl.
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Where is the Rizzbot based?
You can see him insulting people and throwing down his signature rizz all over Austin and most recently in NYC.
Who trained Rizzbot?
The Rizzbot was programmed by a team at the Human Centered Robotics Lab at University of Texas Austin. While the team isn’t chronically online, Kyle Morganstein, a PhD student at the lab has “seen all sorts of fan cams. I've seen slow motions, and getting over by a car. I've seen all the craziest stuff coming in.” The lab focuses on research that makes robots safer for people to interact with, and to make sure people feel safe and find robots helpful.
Why does Rizzbot behave this way?
The robotics team responsible for its training tried to teach it different dance moves. On weekends the robot would go out socially to show off at different parties.
When they first met the robot its name was actually named Snoop. With training, they started teaching him to shake his head for a little bit, and move his arms in a circle.
The owner decided to go a different direction with Rizzbot, but some of the settings like motion capture lets people do dances and then teaches the robot to do the same.
How was the Rizzbot trained?
The robotics team worked with it for two or three weeks, through an agreement where the robot stayed in the lab while it was studied.
On the weekends the robot would go out socially to show off at different parties.
When the team first met the robot its name was actually named Snoop. With training, they started by teaching him to shake his head for a little bit, move his arms in a circle-simple things.
What was the lab’s reaction when they saw Rizzbot going viral?
The team was shocked. The owner of the robot is a YouTuber who prefers to be anonymous, and enjoys entertaining people. His goal for the robot was to show off and see how people react to it. The robotics lab at UT Austin didn't necessarily think he was going in that direction… giving people the middle finger, and the voice module. After they got to know the robot, they were shocked to see it turn into the Rizzbot that went viral. Kyle says, “it doesn't feel like the same robot as it looks the same, obviously it's the same sunglasses and cowboy hat, but it's really taken on a life of its own. People respond to it very differently now that it's become more of a social media thing. They come up with a new slur for robots every other day.” (“Clankers” anyone?)
How unique is the Rizzbot?
A lot of its behaviors come pre programmed from the company - it’s not actually that unique or special. The robot’s controller has given it a personality so that it does things people perceive as funny. There are some things that are special to the robot, but the general movements are preprogrammed - anyone can own one for $50,000.
Why do people love Jake the Rizzbot so much?
“I think people are curious about one thing: if you've ever seen the Rizzbot before it's not a very tall, pretty short robot” Kyle says. He adds, “I don't think that we should take that to mean that it's safe. It certainly can't respond violently. But because it's so much shorter people assume that it is safe and so they're more willing to come right up to it. Especially when it's sort of just standing still.”
The Rizzbot is not autonomous at all - the guy with the controller usually has a set up where he tries to keep himself out of the way, but there's always some control. It’s a natural curiosity for people, and an opportunity to see the Rizzbot on the street.
“There is an opportunity to show people that these are really cool things that can help them. People have a natural fascination to see what these new tech technologies are whether they experience a good or bad one.” says Kyle.
Some people really love the Rizzbot - they find it really funny. Meanwhile, Kyle thinks that other people feel like when Mark Zuckerberg first got a makeover - the new haircut, better clothes, and a big chain - that the Rizzbot is a bit of a PR wash for robots.
What should people know?
There’s a lot of skepticism with power being in the hands of technology. UT Austin’s Robotics Lab wants to convince people that there is a good, humanistic future for robots. Kyle had this to say about the Rizzbot, “I don't think it's a given that it's good or bad. It will be said for so many people that the Rizzbot is one of the first times that they've seen a robot with human-like physical behavior.”
What does the Rizzbot say about the future of robots?
There's a real risk and concern with technology that takes people's jobs. The Rizzbot might show that there is a flipside: what are the things that you don't want to do that technology can help you with, so you can spend more time doing the things you want right.
Kyle says, “it feels like technology gets to define those who are in the driver seat and people feel like it's happening to them. I would push people to take an active role in what future they want to live in, because we can build all of that.”
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