Ultimate Fighting Bots · 2026
Ultimate Bots
Ultimate Bots is a humanoid robot fighting league run by Ultimate Fighting Bots, based in San Francisco.
Ultimate Fighting Bots, trading as Ultimate Bots, is the largest American humanoid fighting league and the one this site was missing.
It began in 2025 as invite-only fights in the basement of Frontier Tower on Market Street in San Francisco, the first in July, founded by Vitaly Bulatov, Xenia Bulatov and Michael Cho. Season 1 moved to Temple SF.
The machines are Unitree G1s and Booster T1s, driven with standard game controllers — and, unusually, from a browser, which means a pilot can compete from anywhere. Unitree became the league's official robotics partner in November 2025. In January 2026 UFB staged a humanoid bout inside the BattleBox at CES, in partnership with BattleBots.
Season 2, announced 23 September 2026, reshapes the league into a touring circuit: four permanent teams on league-assigned Unitree G1s, a $100,000 season prize pool, and five scheduled stops — TwitchCon San Diego (12–15 November), IEEE Humanoids, CES, Big Game Weekend and NVIDIA GTC. An F1 Austin date in the original announcement has since been removed from the league's schedule. Teams score points across three disciplines: martial arts, dancing and an obstacle course. Other partners include Nebius, Weights & Biases, MongoDB and Virgin Music Group.
Reported results
- UFB at CES 2026 — inside the BattleBoxTue, Jan 6, 2026
UFB put two Unitree G1s in a boxing-style bout inside the BattleBots BattleBox at CES in Las Vegas, with human pilots at ringside and a human referee.
No result has been published. Boston Dynamics staff attended as spectators and an Atlas was on the show floor, but it did not fight.
Standings
No standings yet
The table is computed from recorded results and appears with the first one.
Upcoming
Completed
Where to watch
- UFB — Live and on replay. The channel is ufb0ts — with a zero.
- Play & pilot — One account to watch and to pilot — UFB lets you drive from the browser.
How to enter
Create an account. Signing up IS the registration — there is no separate application. Pilots drive the humanoids in the arena; the league is explicitly recruiting gamers, athletes and performers rather than engineers.
Same signup, different role. A Ghost works the Physical AI stack behind the robot rather than driving it.