UFB says its free Studio tool is the way in to becoming a robot boxing pilot
Three shorts on UFB's own channel describe Ultimate Bots Studio and Playground, where users build and test robot moves in simulation, and say activity there counts toward becoming a pilot. UFB also names two captains' teams.
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Ultimate Bots has described how a person gets from the internet to a Season 2 robot seat, in three short videos on its own YouTube channel between 7 and 11 October. The route runs through a free tool called Ultimate Bots Studio.
According to the 7 October short, Studio is "free" and "open to anyone". Users create moves for a robot "from a prompt or a video of you". UFB says it has just released a second part, Playground, where those moves are tested on simulated robots. The league's admins, it says, track how many people are building and how many moves each person makes, and "the more active you are, the better your shot at becoming a pilot."
A 9 October short adds that Playground now lets users test a robot in a simulated cage with "real physics and different environments", switching between floor types. UFB says its "best pilots and ghosts" work in this environment, and tells viewers that pilot sign-ups are on its website. A third short, on 11 October, shows a robot punching and kicking on a simulated ice floor and says the same Studio is what pilots and ghosts use for fights.
What this is, and is not: Studio and Playground are software for building and testing robot moves in simulation. Nothing in the videos says that being active in Studio guarantees a place, how many pilot places exist, or what the selection process involves beyond the activity tracking UFB describes. These are UFB's own statements and we have not seen them confirmed elsewhere.
One detail does not match the league's own schedule. The 7 October short says Season 2 "hits F1 Austin, TwitchCon, the Super Bowl, IEEE, and CES" with a $100,000 prize pool. When we checked ultimatebots.com/schedule on 9 October, it no longer listed Austin and opened at TwitchCon San Diego on 12 to 15 November; today's page did not load in a form we could read, so we have not re-confirmed that. We do not know whether the short predates the schedule change or the page changed for another reason.
Separately, the descriptions of UFB's two captain announcements name teams: the channel says Connor, a Twitch streamer, captains a team called Connor Esports, and Odd Jayy, a robot builder, captains Hello World. UFB has not published a full roster.