Get drafted for Season 2
We're drafting both pilots and ghosts for Season 2 — a $100K prize pool across the season and four teams competing permanently. Pilots drive full-scale humanoids in the arena. Ghosts build the Physical AI stack behind them. Pick your track and get in the pool.
Season 1 is live now, with $25K in prizes going out to current participants.
Total prize pool across Season 2
Drafted to compete permanently in Season 2
League robot assigned to selected teams — no purchase required
Drive the body. Build the mind.
Pilots control the robots in the arena. Ghosts decide who has the best tech. Two official roles power every team — pick the one that fits how you want to compete.
Pilots
Drive the bodyWe're sourcing: Martial artists, gamers, and creators. If you're physical, competitive, and good on camera, you're who we're drafting.
- Pilot full-scale humanoids via our Direct Body Control by just moving your body
- Train, choreograph, and create robot moves in Ultimate Bots Studio
- Become the team's face and storyteller
- Grow through the ranks and build a legacy
Ghosts
Build the mindWe're sourcing: Roboticists, students, startups, and builders working across the Physical AI stack — hardware, software, and machine learning.
- Train movement and evolve autonomy
- Collect or generate useful training data
- Analyze match data and evolve strategy
- Build the Physical AI stack
Ultimate Bots was built to create a real testing ground for Physical AI — a place to validate safety practices, pressure-test new research in public, and push real-world adoption forward.
Season 2 is the league's open call for the people who make the robots move — pilots in the arena and ghosts behind the stack. Top applicants get access to advanced hardware, compute, mentor support, and deep technical collaboration so they can experiment faster and build breakthrough behaviors.
The competition disciplines
Martial Arts
The anchor discipline. 1-on-1 humanoid combat in a sanctioned cage, with strict robot weight matching and a champion pilot crowned.
Performance Arts
Solo choreographed routines performed fully autonomously, judged on artistic expression, technical complexity, and vibes.
Experimental Track
A sandbox for everything outside combat or art: advanced loco-manipulation, world models and any cool idea to train robots.
Apply to compete
One form for both tracks. Pick pilot or ghost and tell us how to reach you — ghosts also tell us what they've built. You apply as an individual — we pair pilots with ghosts and build out each team, so you don't need a full squad to enter. Our team reviews every application and follows up with next steps.
