Cute mini-robots compete for championship title, gladiator freedom (video)

If you thought a robot fighting championship just sounds like the plot for a Hugh Jackman vehicle, you’d be partly right. We’ll tell you who does have the real steel though, the plucky fellas you see above. They’re competing for this year’s ROBO-ONE championship, an annual competition where humanoid robots slug it out to the death (or power failure at least) held this weekend in Kawasaki, Japan. This is no toy fair either, with contestants bagging a $12,000 pot if their android-avatar wins the crown. This year, that title goes to GAROO, winning for the second time in a row by defeating Gargoyle Mini for the spoils. Rumors of LED gauging were unfounded, as you’ll see in the video after the round… we mean break.

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