$1.4 Million Solid Gold Prize! URKL Launches as World's First Humanoid Robot Combat League

On February 9, 2026, the inaugural Global Humanoid Robot Free Combat League (Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend, abbreviated as "URKL") press conference was successfully held under worldwide attention.

As the world's first commercialized free combat competition focused on the humanoid robot sector, this press conference was initiated by ENGINEAI (Shenzhen) and co-organized by Shenzhen Fist Star Robotics Technology Co., Ltd. Numerous global technology elites, university research team representatives, and mainstream domestic and international media gathered on-site to jointly witness the official launch of this technology sports spectacle that combines technical depth with industrial value.

Distinguished Guests Gather to Empower Technology-Sports Integration and Industrial Deployment

At the press conference, multiple guests took the stage to speak, including Zhao Tongyang, Founder and CEO of ENGINEAI, representatives from ENGINEAI's competition team, Zhang Rui, Head of Fist Star Robotics Events, and Thai boxing champion Buakaw Banchamek, among others, providing comprehensive interpretations of URKL's core value, competition planning, technical support, and ecosystem layout.

Currently, the embodied intelligence and humanoid robot industry is accelerating from technological exploration toward industrial deployment, with core technology iteration, industrial ecosystem aggregation, and application scenario expansion showing multi-faceted breakthrough momentum. Simultaneously, international premier sporting events including the 2026 World Cup and Asian Games are sparking a global sports fever, with "technology + sports" innovative integration becoming a new frontier for industrial upgrading.

The timely emergence of the URKL league represents not only a precise response to the development needs of the embodied intelligence industry, but also ENGINEAI's vivid practice of implementing China's national innovation-driven development strategy. Furthermore, through its unique form of the "Chinese Robot Kung Fu Model," it builds a crucial bridge connecting and exporting Chinese culture to international popular culture, infusing Chinese wisdom into global industrial development.

At this press conference, Zhao Tongyang made a major announcement: the URKL league will award the ultimate championship team with a ten-kilogram pure gold belt valued at approximately RMB 10 million (around $1.4 million)—this is not only the highest symbol of the URKL league's honor system, but also a major award and supreme tribute to the world's top-tier technical prowess and ultimate innovation spirit in the humanoid robot sector.

Yao Qiyuan added that the maturation of humanoid robot core technologies cannot be separated from real-scenario combat tempering and repeated validation. This open, inclusive, and fair competitive combat stage built by the URKL league can effectively attract more high-quality technical teams worldwide to delve deeply into the embodied intelligence sector, making the competition a "litmus test" for technological innovation and an "incubator" for talent discovery. This will help the industry discover and cultivate more outstanding innovative talent, accelerate the transformation and deployment of more hardcore laboratory technologies into real application scenarios, and inject strong momentum into the high-quality development of the embodied intelligence industry.

Building a Full-Chain Ecosystem Aggregation Platform to Establish New Heights for Embodied Intelligence Industry Development

The URKL league is far more than a simple competitive event—it is a full-chain ecosystem aggregation platform integrating technology collaboration, resource integration, talent incubation, and capital linkage. Leveraging this platform, global industry partners will achieve deep integration, constructing a complete industrial ecosystem closed loop covering "R&D - production - application - investment." This will not only drive deep integration of "technology + sports + culture" and cultivate a social atmosphere where the public pays attention to technology and embraces innovation, but will also help enterprises achieve real-world validation of technological achievements and commercial value transformation, building an internationally influential aggregation highland for the global industry and injecting sustained vitality into the globalized development of embodied intelligence technology.

As an innovative enterprise deeply rooted in the industry, ENGINEAI has always regarded ecosystem building as a core mission, continuously contributing to industry development. By establishing the URKL league as an open platform, the ENGINEAI team is fully unleashing its decade-plus of technological accumulation and global resource advantages, using the competition as a bond to connect global partners, deepening core technologies, expanding application scenarios, and perfecting the industrial ecosystem—letting technology iterate through competition and ecosystems prosper through collaboration—continuously driving the embodied intelligence industry from "isolated breakthroughs" toward "systemic upgrading," injecting strong momentum into the high-quality development of the global embodied intelligence industry, and writing a new chapter in the globalized development of the humanoid robot industry.

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