Every fight this sport has ever staged had a human in the loop. Unitree's UnifoLM-X2-1.0 world model drops the human — and the watcher caught the story in Chinese media before English outlets had it.
Who runs what, on which machines, for how much money — the map of a sport that did not exist two years ago.
2,056 robots, 666 teams, 16 countries. AGIBOT topped the medal table on debut, Tiangong Ultra ran 100m in 8.64 seconds, and the fighting happened in three weight classes.
No judging rubric, no university teams. San Francisco's REK puts UFC fighters in VR headsets, sells out nightclubs, and just opened a storefront full of six-foot fighting machines.
EngineAI's Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend has a $1.44M prize pool, a 10-kilogram gold belt, Stanford and Tsinghua in the field — and a scoring system that is nothing like boxing.
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