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Results that were never published, records that sources disagree on, and fixtures announced with no date. Everything on this page is a gap in the public record of this sport — not a gap in our reporting of it.
Most sports records can assume the result exists somewhere. This one cannot. Humanoid fighting is covered mainly by manufacturers announcing their own events, state broadcasters covering them as technology stories, and city newspapers writing in languages the promoters do not publish in. Results go missing, and nobody notices because nobody is keeping a list.
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8Who won kickboxing at the 2025 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 won martial arts at the 2026 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from demonstration to scored competition for the second edition, which makes its medallists the most significant unpublished result in the sport.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?
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.
When and where is the CMG2026 final?
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.
How autonomous are URKL's robots, really?
Sources conflict. Some describe a semi-autonomous arrangement in which a human operator supplies intent and onboard AI executes the movement; others describe full autonomy with no human in the loop. Both cannot be true, and the answer decides what the sport is: a league of algorithms, or a league of drivers. The 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games took the question seriously enough to halve the points of any teleoperated robot.
Did Tiangong Ultra run 100 m in 8.86 s or 9.39 s?
X-Humanoid's Tiangong Ultra set the headline track records at the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games, and the 100 m time is reported as both 8.86 seconds and 9.39 seconds across sources. Half a second is the difference between beating Usain Bolt's world record and not.
Which six cities does CyberHero's world circuit visit?
Hero Esports announced an eight-city season across four regions — two Middle East, one Europe, one Americas, one Asia and one more — at the Riyadh launch on 9 September 2026. Riyadh is one. The other cities have not been named and no dates have been published. Six announced fixtures with no location is a fact worth tracking, and nobody else is tracking it.
Has anyone independently verified Unitree's autonomous combat claim?
Unitree announced UnifoLM-X2-1.0 on 7 September 2026, claiming the first fully autonomous high-dynamic humanoid combat — no teleoperation, no choreography. Its predecessor UnifoLM-WMA-0 was open-sourced in September 2025. The claim is the manufacturer's own and has not been independently verified. UC Berkeley's Ken Goldberg calls this category of event robot theater: "Many of them have humans controlling them... Beware of what you see in the videos, it isn't quite real."