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During a test sparring session ahead of URKL, EngineAI’s humanoid robot fighting league, one T800 knocked the head off another T800. The headless robot tried to keep fighting, but its balance and orientation quickly fell apart.

🤖 NEW: ENGINEAI’s humanoid robot fighting league, URKL, is already holding test matches ahead of its official debut next month.

This is wild. ENGINEAI’s global humanoid robot free-fighting league, URKl, is already running test matches — with the opening event coming in July. Next week, @TheHumanoidHub and I are visiting ENGINEAI. What do you guys want to see?

Official clips from EngineAI’s URKL Robot Fighting Competition are here.

Headless? No problem! 🤖🥊 The T800 humanoid robot from Shenzhen-based EngineAI (众擎机器人) kept fighting even after its head detached, showing off impressive kicks, punches and balance in the ring. EngineAI previously went viral after its robot danced alongside American influencer IShowSpeed and launched the world's first Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend (URKL), where the champion receives a gold championship belt worth US$1.474 million. Robot boxing matches may soon become a regular thing. ⚡✨ @engineairobot @SpoxCHN_MaoNing @zhang_heqing @Ma_WuKong @rohanpaul_ai

最近ずっと考えてる。 ロボット格闘リーグの時代が来てる。 中国には Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend (URKL)。 アメリカには REK と Ultimate Fighting Bots (UFB)。 じゃあ、日本版ロボット格闘リーグは？

A fight between humanoid robots The match reportedly featured T800 humanoid robots from the Chinese company EngineAI. One of them performed a leg sweep resembling a martial arts technique, while the other managed to get back up after being struck and losing its “head.” EngineAI had previously announced the creation of an international robot fighting league called URKL. However, some users question the authenticity of such videos, suspecting CGI, while the company denies this.

China’s Terminator has entered mass production. The Shenzhen startup EngineAI says it just opened its new intelligent manufacturing base. It covers around 12,000 square meters (130,00 square feet), roughly the size of a Home Depot. According to EngineAI, the first batch of its T800 humanoid robots just walked off its production line. EngineAI says its factory handles a full production loop that includes incoming inspection, assembly, testing, batch shipment, and aftersales maintenance. The robotics firm claims it can build one humanoid robot every 15 minutes, theoretically equal to four robots an hour if running continuously. The production is speed is twice as fast the rate claimed by Leju Robot, another Shenzhen firm, at the humanoid factory it operates in Foshan with Dongfeng Precision. According to Chinese reports, EngineAI is also planning a larger global intelligent manufacturing headquarters more inland in Zhengzhou. Launched in 2023 by serial entrepreneur Zhao Tongyang, who previously led XPENG’s humanoid program, the startup is aggressively scaling with substantial financial backing. EngineAI raised around $200 million in a Series B round announced in April 2026, which brought its total amount raised to at least $350 million and pushed its valuation to $1.5 billion. Its major backers include Henan state-backed capital, Apple supplier Luxshare precision, the e-commerce giant JD.com, and a long list of Chinese industrial and government-backed investors. The new factory resides within Shenzhen’s Honghualing smart manufacturing cluster, where robotics companies and suppliers are stacked into high-rise industrial space. The location puts it within walking distance to key suppliers, including RoboSense, a global leader in LiDAR components. It’s also home to Dobot, the Kickstarter success story that’s mass producing its humanoid named Atom alongside its industrial cobots. The robot leading EngineAI’s new factory rollout is the T800, its first full-sized commercial humanoid. Standing 173 cm (5 feet 8 inches), the humanoid is marketed as a general-purpose worker for use across industrial, logistics, and public-service sectors. Its name is inspired by the iconic synthetic human from The Terminator series, which EngineAI’s founder cites as one of his biggest inspirations growing up. The T800 is the same robot that’s gone viral for knocking its creator to the ground with a swift kick to the chest and for patrolling the streets of Shenzhen with police officers. Weighing 175 kg (165 lbs), the T800 features a magnesium aluminum alloy exoskeleton, 29 degrees of freedom (DoF), and three-fingered hands with seven moving joints each. It’s one of the first humanoids to run on a solid-state battery, alongside XPENG’s Iron and the newer startup KinetixAI’s KAI. The batteries are said to be higher in energy density, faster charging, and safer than traditional lithium-ion packs. Sixteen of the robots are being trained for EngineAI’s Ultimate Robot Knockout League (URKL) for later in 2026. EngineAI is supplying teams from universities and labs with the heavy-duty humanoids. They’ll optimize the robots for the ring by customizing their artificial intelligence and outfitting them with protective gear. Destructive mods and remote-control operation are strictly prohibited. The T800 is priced starting around $25,000 though the variants used for the cagef-fighting spectacle are likely higher-end configurations that start around $50,000. EngineAI is also known for its compact humanoid named, the PM01, which originally cost around $13,000 to undercut Unitree’s G1. Its entry point is now closer to $25,000 in online listings.

The duality of Shenzhen's humanoid robotics scene: EngineAI just announced it's opened its new factory that can build one humanoid robot every 15 minutes. It's scaling toward 10,000 of its T800 humanoid robots that are named after Arnold in The Terminator series. Sixteen of them are training for the world's first autonomous humanoid robot cage-fighting tournament, URKL, later this year. Then there's UBTECH Robotics, whose industrial Walker S2 humanoids are being deployed by giants like Airbus and Texas Instruments. The publicly traded company just unveiled its Walker C1 humanoid emphasizes elegance over power. Its intro video has it teaching a ballet class.

My money is on @engineairobot! They even have a fighting tournament you can enter as an owner, it’s called Ultimate Robot Knockout Legend (URKL) and the prize money is $1.4m USD (it costs 20-40K for the robot model)

$200M raised, ¥10B valuation — and now the real test starts 🤖 EngineAI just closed a $200M Series B, pushing its valuation past ¥10B (~$1.4B). That is a serious number. The harder question is whether the business is catching up to the valuation. The company has real product breadth — PM01, SE01, SA01, T800 — and it clearly knows how to build robots that generate attention. But on the commercialization side, the most visible public case is still the Duolun Technology partnership, built around humanoid robots for smart traffic and policing. The headline agreement is 2,000 units over three years. That is meaningful, but it is still a pipeline story, not a broad set of proven deployments. Public shipment visibility also looks modest relative to the top tier. According to the 2025 Humanoid Robot Market Research Report published by China Electronics News, EngineAI shipped about 500 humanoid robots in 2025. By comparison, Unitree shipped more than 5,500 humanoid robots in 2025. That is not a small gap. It is an order-of-magnitude gap. The same contrast shows up in robot fighting. EngineAI’s URKL is still in the registration phase. Unitree was already on the mat in May 2025, when the CMG humanoid robot fighting event officially went live. So the signal here is mixed, but interesting. EngineAI now has the capital, the manufacturing backers, and a much bigger stage. What it still needs is the part that matters most in this market: more shipped robots, more repeatable deployments, and more public proof that the business is scaling as fast as the valuation

Global registration is now open for the Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend (URKL), a humanoid combat league hosted by EngineAI. The competition utilizes a standardized T800 platform to focus on algorithm optimization in motion control and balance rather than mechanical destruction. Incentives include a $1.45 million championship prize, T800 hardware for the Top 16, and fast-track recruitment for Top 8 finalists.