Most people think robot adoption will happen in factories.
I think it will also happen through culture.
People don't fall in love with technology because of a spec sheet. They fall in love with it when they can experience it.
Thank you to @Forbes and @America250 for having me share the Ultimate Bots story and our vision for the future of robot sports.
And thank you to @nebiusai , our Season 1 partner, for helping make it possible.
We're hosting 3 public @UFBots events across the Bay Area this summer. Follow us to get your hands on tickets before they sell out.
We're just getting started. ๐ค๐ฅ
One year ago, we put humanoids in a ring.
People came for the robots and stayed for the fights, pilots, chaos, and crowd.
That became Ultimate Bots.
June 26: Automata opens the gates for our One Year Anniversary Showdown, powered by @nebiusai
Our last event sold out. DM us for early access - tickets are limited.
See you ringside ๐ค๐ฅ
Only in America do we watch two guys beat each other up at the People's House. Give it six months and it'll be robots in powdered wigs settling foreign policy on the South Lawn...
Was this the most legendary robot fight in history? Two legends face off, @battlebots creator Ed Roski v.s. UFBโs very own creator Vitaly Bulatov @vitl2907.
We are bringing the heat with robotics entertainment with events in San Francisco throughout the summer!
Follow us for what is nextโฆ
We launched Ultimate Bots Season 1: powered by @nebiusai. Sold-out Season Opener at @Temple_SF. Martial Arts is our fan-favorite first discipline; Dance debuted now. This is the start of the sports league where hardware, Physical AI, teams, and fans evolve in public.
7 matches in Martial Arts discipline, during one of them, I fought Trey Roski, founder of @BattleBots. It was havoc. Knockdowns on both sides. We went past where rounds usually end. It was a pleasure to test the absolute limits of hardware with the best pilot of fighting robots there is.
In the Inaugural Dance Off three teams submitted their dances: @meetsitaram from @Solo__Tech, @yesitsarmin from @frontiertower community, and the student team from UC Berkeley. Thanks to TURFinc dance team from Oakland for judging the competition and doing an amazing dance with our robot Cricket. Cultural collabs like this help people connect with robots in a truly unique and authentic way.
All of it ran on Ultimate Bots Studio โ our robotics motion tool: pull motions straight from videos, edit them in a convenient web UI, deploy with @NVIDIARobotics Sonic.
@nebiusai โ our Season 1 title partner and the engine for AI cloud training and inference. NVIDIA Reference Platform to run the full Physical AI stack: Cosmos, Isaac Sim, OSMO orchestration across the pipeline. The League works with the best Physical AI infrastructure.
Season 1 keeps adding formats. Ultimate Bots is the proving ground for Physical AI โ we want every serious humanoid team competing here.
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Hottest ticket in town? An all gas night of robot fights, an electric robot dance off, plus acrobatic Turf dancing to round it all out... Huge thanks to all who came out for this wild SOLD OUT night!
Much much more to come...