REK

A San Francisco promotion founded by Cix Liv, and the first to stage humanoid robot fights in the United States. Its matches pit modified Unitree G1 robots — around 4.5 feet and 80 pounds — against each other, driven by human pilots wearing VR headsets, in nightclub venues at $60 to $80 a ticket.

It is the commercial counter-argument to the Chinese leagues: no engineering rubric, no standardised platform supplied by a manufacturer, just a ticketed show. By August 2026 REK listed twelve events across eight cities, and an America tour taking in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Austin, Miami and New York reportedly sold out every stop. Reporting on the tour's dates is contradictory, so this site carries no REK fixtures until the promotion publishes a calendar.

Liv has said REK intends to launch a full league built on purpose-made combat machines of roughly six feet and 200 pounds.