Hangzhou ran a humanoid boxing contest in May: five teams, standard Unitree robots, a published point system
Inside the 2026 Hangzhou International Embodied Robot Scenario Application Competition (Yunqi Town, 15-16 May), a boxing track used standard Unitree robots, best-of-three sets and a points scale. No winner has been found.
One humanoid fighting contest in the 2026 calendar is not yet on Roboxing. On 15 and 16 May 2026, a humanoid robot boxing competition ran as one of the core contests at the 2026 Hangzhou International Embodied Robot Scenario Application Competition, in Yunqi Town, Xihu District, Hangzhou. It was not a league night but a boxing track inside a general robotics competition.
The platform. Organisers named Unitree's G1 or R1 humanoid as the standard competition robot, per Chao News. The Hangzhou municipal government's English portal names the G1. Standardising the machine means teams compete on their control software, not their hardware, which is the opposite of the leagues where each side brings its own robot.
The rules, as published by Chao News on 16 April. Bouts were full-contact and standing, played as best of three sets, each set made of three two-minute rounds. Hits to the head or torso counted. A hand strike scored 1 point and a leg strike 3 points. A robot that fell and got up before the referee's ten-second count lost 6 points; one that could not get up in ten seconds lost the round. The side with more points won the round, and the side with more rounds won the match. An on-site report in the Daily Business News on 13 May describes the scoring zones slightly differently, naming the torso, legs and neck, so the exact target areas should be treated as reported rather than settled.
The field. The same on-site report says five teams, drawn from universities, research institutes and companies that adapt robots for specific uses, would contest the boxing title, out of about 200 teams across the whole competition. The competition's other tracks included quadruped substation inspection and fire rescue.
The purpose. Organisers framed being hit as controlled impact testing: a robot that is going to work in a factory, a home or a crowded public space has to survive collisions, so a fight is a stress test of balance, motion control and structural strength. The Hangzhou portal gives that reasoning directly.
What is not known. No source Roboxing has found names a winner, a final or a scoreline for the boxing contest, and the team list has not been published in anything read. Whether it was streamed is unverified. Because no independent result exists, nothing is entered in Roboxing's results table. If you have the placings, they would close a gap that the open-questions page now has room for.
Why it matters. A boxing track with a published point system, standard robots and university and institute teams is a different model from the promoter-run leagues. It sits inside a robotics competition, not a fight card.