A real opponent.
Escalating opposition that adapts. Not a fixed course and not a scored demo.
For builders
You do not need permission. You need a belt.
No credential, no lab affiliation, no invitation. If you can build a machine that passes safety and earns a belt, you are in the bracket, next to everyone else.
If any of this is you, the dojo is for you.
- You build robots and you are tired of demos that nobody can verify.
- You work on autonomy and you have never had adversarial opposition to test against.
- You are a student or a hobbyist with more capability than access.
- You run a lab and you want an external benchmark that is not your own.
- You have never built a combat robot and you want a reason to start.
What you get out of it.
Your own data.
Full telemetry from every run. Exportable, yours to keep, and yours to publish if you want to.
A public record.
A fighter profile with every round it has ever run, win or lose. Nobody gets to edit their history here, including us.
A shot at the pool.
Published prize money that splits down the bracket, not winner take all.
Your name on it.
We credit the builder before the machine. Always.
What we ask in return.
Enter honestly. Do not run a piloted machine and call it autonomous. Do not enter a fighter whose autonomy you did not build. Do not interfere with another builder's machine.
Everything else is fair. Copy an idea you saw in a replay. Build something nobody expected. Beat us at our own kata and tell everyone how. This works because the field is open.
The dojo opens with season one.
Get the first call when qualification is live.