Build the robot.
Enter the arena.
The TMRC Fight League is a collegiate humanoid robotics engineering challenge built to push students beyond the classroom and into real-world robotics development.
Selected college teams will prepare, develop, program, and compete with advanced humanoid robotic platforms — culminating in live head-to-head competition in North Texas.
Robotics hardware support may include sponsored, discounted, customized, or potentially no-cost platforms for selected participating schools.
This isn’t robot fighting.
It’s an engineering problem with a scoreboard.
Teams will take a modern humanoid robotics platform and make it competition-ready.
That means solving problems across mechanical systems, controls, software, autonomy, perception, strategy, reliability, and human-machine interaction.
The fight is the final test.
The real competition is everything students have to engineer to get there.
Teams will develop their robot throughout the season, test their ideas, solve failures, make strategic decisions, and ultimately bring their work into a live competitive environment.
- Build
- Program
- Test
- Compete
Then it has to compete in front of people.
Labs are where the work happens. The arena is where it has to hold up — live, in public, with a scoreboard.
Don’t own the robot yet?
Apply anyway.
Access to advanced humanoid hardware should not be the reason a great engineering team cannot participate.
TMRC is actively building the league alongside robotics manufacturers, industry partners, sponsors, and participating colleges.
Depending on the final league structure and available sponsorship, selected schools may have opportunities for:
- Sponsored hardware
- Discounted competition platforms
- Custom competition configurations
- Potentially no-cost access to robotics hardware
- Technical resources and platform support
Availability and terms will depend on manufacturer and sponsor participation, and hardware support is not guaranteed simply by applying.
But you do not need to already own a humanoid robot to raise your hand.
Bring us the engineering team.
We’ll work on the rest.
Think your school should be in the league?
Whether you’re a professor, department leader, engineering club, robotics team, or student trying to bring the idea to your university, start here.
We’re currently identifying colleges interested in helping shape and participate in the first TMRC Fight League.
Engineering belongs in the real world.
Build something.
Break something.
Fix it.
Compete.
Build Here.