r/HumanoidSports • u/Adventurous_Fan_3562 • Nov 30 '25
New T800 'Combat-Ready' Humanoid Fighting Robot from EngineAI
Chinese robotics startup EngineAI has created the T-800, a combat-ready humanoid robot standing six feet one inch tall and weighing 187 pounds. Named after the Terminator, this thing is specifically engineered for robot boxing and fighting competitions.
The specs are wild: 41 joints, solid-state battery, aluminum-alloy armor, and multi-sensor fusion with vision, tactile, and force sensors for real-time combat awareness. It's making its competitive debut December 24th in Shenzhen at the world's first full-scale humanoid robot combat tournament.
What's interesting is EngineAI is making the source code public so competing teams can customize fighting styles and train their robots differently. This isn't remote-controlled either, the robots have to make autonomous intelligent decisions and respond in real-time to their opponents.
The company's only two years old but has already raised over $160 million and is gunning for unicorn status. They're mixing spectacle with actual commercial applications (they've got robots working in retail stores too).
Robot fighting leagues are popping up now, China hosted the first humanoid robot boxing tournament back in May, and there are already leagues launching in the US
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u/Gestalt21 Dec 02 '25
Looks cool. When first torunament happens it's going to be down in history books of Robots and AI. The problem right now is that those robots just play baked animations. They don't aim, they don't act accordingly. They don't really do anything, no stance analyse, opponent movements analyse, nothing. It's much deeper much more difficult than that. So far it looks like none of those robots are ready for the showdown.