Still unresolved: 6 things this record cannot confirm
6 open questions in the humanoid robot fighting record, and what would settle each one.
6 things this record cannot yet state as fact.
Every entry below is something a reader might reasonably expect a system of record to know, and does not. They are listed because an unanswered question is more useful than a confident guess, and because writing them down is how they eventually get answered.
Who won kickboxing at the 2025 World Humanoid Robot Games? (World Humanoid Robot Games) — Kickboxing was a scored contact sport at the first Games in Beijing in August 2025 — 280 teams, 26 events, 487 matches. The medallists have never been published anywhere findable, in English or in Chinese. Unitree's 11 medals and 4 golds are all on record and all on the track; what happened in the ring is not.
Who actually won the three bouts at SCL's First Light? (Shadow Combat League) — SCL announced First Light for 23 May 2026 and streamed it on X, Kick and YouTube. Results are circulating — Elelliana Affendiva by knockout in round two, Isaac Quinn Lee by unanimous decision, and Bibian by medical stoppage — but they rest on a single aggregator with no established editorial record, and the league has published no result sheet of its own. No bout rows were created here: the machines are unnamed, so recording a winner would mean inventing the robot it was recorded against. The stream exists, which makes this checkable rather than merely open.
Who won martial arts at the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games? (World Humanoid Robot Games) — Martial arts was promoted from demonstration to scored competition for the second edition, which makes its medallists the most significant unpublished result in the sport. The full medal table by organisation is known — AGIBOT topped it with 18 gold — but the martial arts placings specifically have not been released.
Who won EngineAI's Mecha King on 24 December 2025? (Mecha King) — Billed as the first full-size humanoid free-combat championship. EngineAI open-sourced the robot code so teams could train their own fighters, staged the event in Shenzhen, and never published a winner. The same company went on to found URKL, which publishes results — which makes the silence about this one harder to explain, not easier.
Did SCL change its bout format between First Light and New Dawn? (Shadow Combat League) — First Light is described as three rounds of three minutes with a health-bar scoring system — 50 points for a head strike, 25 for a body strike — resolved by knockout, technical knockout or points. BERNAMA describes New Dawn MY as bouts of up to 15 minutes, or until a machine stops getting back up. Those are not the same sport. No source states that a change was made, so this is either an undocumented rule change between the league's first and second events or one of the two descriptions is wrong.
When and where is the CMG2026 final? (CMG2026 Robot Mecha Fighting Competition) — China Media Group announced the competition on 10 June 2026 and opened global recruitment the next day. Three stages were described, ending in a championship finale of full-size autonomous combat. As of September 2026 neither the date nor the venue has been published — which also means nobody entering can know what they are entering.
Written automatically from that source and not reviewed by an editor before publication. Corrections are welcome.