What do humanoid robot fighting leagues pay? Prize money announced so far, league by league
URKL cites a 14 million yuan pool, UFB a $100K season pool, RFC has not named one; for the other leagues no prize has been found. Sources and limits for each.
Prize money is one of the few numbers in humanoid robot fighting that leagues like to announce and nobody has yet been seen to pay out. This page lists what each league has said, with the source and its limits. It is a record of announcements, not of payments.
URKL (EngineAI, China)
The biggest figures belong to URKL. Science and Technology Daily, reporting the league's 16 July opening bout in Shenzhen, gives a total prize pool of 14 million yuan and says the champion receives a gold belt valued at more than 10 million yuan, or the equivalent in cash. It places the global final between December 2026 and January 2027. Earlier, in February, the news site Mugglehead described the belt as a 10-kilogram golden belt valued at about 10 million yuan, or US$1.44 million, and mentioned no separate pool. The two accounts are consistent on the belt; the 14 million yuan pool appears only in the July report among the sources read here. Whether and when any of it is paid out has not been reported.
UFB (Ultimate Bots, United States)
UFB's home page states a "$100K prize pool across the season", about Season 2, which opens at TwitchCon San Diego on 13-15 November. The page does not say how the pool is divided between events, teams or pilots, and its schedule page lists no per-event prize.
RFC (Singapore)
RFC's site says the prize pool for its Showcase, 11-13 December 2026 in Singapore, will be "to be announced at the Showcase and fought for by the teams on the league card". The page also shows the string "$X88,888", which reads like a template placeholder and is not treated here as an amount. It mentions "a belt on the line" and lists ticket prices as TBA.
REK, Shadow Combat League, ARC, CyberHero and CMG2026
In the sources Roboxing has read for these leagues, no prize amount is stated. Shadow Combat League's New Dawn card included three title belts, but no purse has been published that we have read. That does not prove none exists; it means there is nothing here to report.
HOW TO READ THESE NUMBERS
A pool is not a purse for one fight, and a belt valued at a sum is not a cheque. The only figure from a league's own materials that Roboxing has read is UFB's season pool; the URKL figures come from press reports of the organiser's statements. Roboxing will update this page when a league publishes a payout, a split or a purse.
SOURCES
Science and Technology Daily, 17 July 2026 (stdaily.com); Mugglehead, 13 February 2026; ultimatebots.com (home and schedule pages, read 11 November 2026); rfc.sg (read 11 November 2026).