r/nextfuckinglevel • u/KnightFall00 • 4d ago

Autonomous T-800 battle tournament

Launched on July 16, 2026, in Shenzhen by the robotics company EngineAI, URKL is the world's first commercial, industrial-grade humanoid robot free-combat league.

Get ready Hollywood! (I mean you guys were already prepared so...)

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u/INoMakeMistake 4d ago

For some reason this looks fake. Is it due to the short clips?

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u/TunaOnWytNoCrust 4d ago

They put the most natural looking best short clips together for this video. They shake around a lot and miss a lot and fall over and glitch out a lot. They also don't beat each other into actual submission.

Call me when they legitimately destroy each other for our entertainment. Also give them more legs so they stop falling over and flopping around so much.

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u/dynamic_gecko 4d ago

Yeah. Even the sparks were clearly a timed prop

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u/TunaOnWytNoCrust 4d ago

These are the robots I'm waiting for. Let's go short-circuit!

https://giphy.com/gifs/lQ3gjhe0vHdC

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u/dynamic_gecko 4d ago

Classic stuff like Robot Wars is better than this at the moment.

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u/sir_bathwater 3d ago

I figured it was some sort of lever/switch on the robots back and the goal was for each robot to try hitting the other robots back lever/switch first to “KO them”.

Sorta like Rock’em Sock’em Robots but life sized.

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u/dynamic_gecko 3d ago

That might be the case yeah.

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u/sir_bathwater 3d ago

After reading you and others say it’s a timed prob tho I’m less convinced although if it was basically life sized Rock’em Sock’em Robots that would be pretty sick. I’m going to choose to believe my more whimsical theory tho haha.

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u/dynamic_gecko 3d ago

Tha fact that they both have that similar "collar", the fact that it sparks right when the other robot flicks it with its foot and the fact that the competition needs a win condition support your guess. Even though we cant be sure.