Coverage
Clips, recaps and analysis. Humanoid robot fighting, in English.
Every fight this sport has ever staged had a human in the loop. Unitree's UnifoLM-X2-1.0 world model drops the human — and the watcher caught the story in Chinese media before English outlets had it.
Who runs what, on which machines, for how much money — the map of a sport that did not exist two years ago.
2,056 robots, 666 teams, 16 countries. AGIBOT topped the medal table on debut, Tiangong Ultra ran 100m in 8.64 seconds, and the fighting happened in three weight classes.
No judging rubric, no university teams. San Francisco's REK puts UFC fighters in VR headsets, sells out nightclubs, and just opened a storefront full of six-foot fighting machines.
EngineAI's Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend has a $1.44M prize pool, a 10-kilogram gold belt, Stanford and Tsinghua in the field — and a scoring system that is nothing like boxing.
On 25 May 2025 in Hangzhou, four Unitree G1s fought the first humanoid boxing tournament ever staged. Everything since is measured against it.
Ten EngineAI T800s, two teams of three, and no live stream. What to expect from Hero Esports' debut on 9 September.
