Humanoid robot fighting, 1-13 November 2026: what was announced, what was not, and what comes next

No league fight that Roboxing could verify took place between 1 and 13 November 2026. What happened instead was a run of announcements, schedule edits and format details, and one important date arrives on the last day of the window: UFB's Season 2 opener at TwitchCon San Diego. This is a dated digest of what each promoter published, what is still missing, and what comes next.

UFB: THE SEASON OPENS, WITHOUT A PUBLISHED CARD

Ultimate Bots (UFB) lists TwitchCon San Diego, 13 to 15 November, as the first stop of Season 2, and its schedule page says all times are Pacific. Roboxing's 3 November story recorded that UFB moved its own dates from 12-15 to 13-15 November and added ticket links, but no fight times. TwitchCon's published show hours are 10am to 7pm on Friday and Saturday and 10am to 6pm on Sunday. As of 12 November UFB had published no card, pairings or stream schedule for the opener, and we found none on 13 November either; that is unverified, not proof that nothing is planned.

The later stops are IEEE Humanoid in Santa Clara (7 to 9 December), CES in Las Vegas (5 to 7 January 2027), Big Game Weekend in Los Angeles (11 to 13 February) and Nvidia GTC in San Jose (15 to 17 March).

UFB's channel spent the month on non-fight content: short clips from its TED appearance about training robots from video, a piece on the engineer behind the robot on Joji's tour, and a page describing "ghosts", the engineers who build the physical AI behind the pilots and who can be drafted for Season 2 through the monthly Ghost Trial. UFB's newest YouTube upload in its feed is dated 9 November.

REK: SIMULATOR PLAYOFFS AND A NEW CONTROL SYSTEM

REK, the San Francisco promotion whose fights are piloted by people, ran two weeks of "REK 2.1" playoffs inside its REK Sim game: week 1 from 30 to 31 October and week 2 from 6 to 7 November, Pacific time. Per REK's Steam announcement, the top six players of each week, twelve in total, advance to "the next stage". REK has said the winners will pilot a real robot, and has promoted 20 November, but its newest Steam post, dated 7 November, still gives no venue, stage, card or leaderboard, and nothing newer had appeared by 13 November.

On 10 November REK posted a short introducing S.T.E.E.L, which it calls "the world's first fighting teleop" and says works with VR and any mocap. That is REK's own claim; no independent coverage has been found. Earlier in the month REK's patch notes showed that its simulator's two robots, now called L100 and H100, are the Unitree G1 and EngineAI T-800 under new names.

CHINA: URKL BACKGROUND, NO NEW RESULT

For EngineAI's URKL, the month's verified material was about the past. Two Chinese reports of the 16 July opening night agree on 32 teams and the T800 as the standard machine but differ on whether a stage of 60 shortlisted teams came before the 32. Roboxing has found no official or mainstream report of a qualifier result since, and the earlier aggregator-only claims about late-October qualifier nights remain unconfirmed. Separately, Unitree's founder said in November that robot-fighting demos are less entertaining than in 2025 and claimed two robots now fight fully autonomously, a claim we report as his, not as verified.

Outside leagues, AGIBOT's Innovation Day in Shanghai produced a video, per two outlets that appear to share one source, of two humanoids boxing until one robot's hand came off. It was a company demonstration with no scoring.

SINGAPORE AND THE REST

The Robot Fighting Championship (RFC) now lists "The Showcase", three nights from 11 to 13 December 2026 in Singapore, with doors at 7pm and first walkout at 8pm. The venue was still "to be announced soon" when we last read the site, so no start time or time zone is shown. Shadow Combat League's newest upload on its channel is dated 8 October, from its New Dawn event in Malaysia.

WHAT COMES NEXT

13 to 15 November: UFB at TwitchCon, card unannounced. 20 November: REK's promoted "REK 2.1" date, its nature unconfirmed. 7 to 9 December: UFB at IEEE Humanoid. 11 to 13 December: RFC Showcase in Singapore. The schedule at roboxing.tv/schedule carries each with its confidence label, and this story will be superseded when a promoter publishes a time.