Azimuth PRO · URKL Challenger
ONE ROBOT.ONE AZIMUTH.THE GOLD BELT.
Azimuth PRO is a team of developers creating software for the EngineAI platform and the autonomous fighting robot T800 for the URKL league. Identical hardware for every team. The fight is won in software.
PUBLIC PRESENTATION. Q1 2027.
The first public appearance of BASILISK - our unit of the EngineAI T800 platform, running Azimuth PRO software.
Exact date and venue to be announced · Europe · Poland
FROM THE LAB TO THE LEAGUE.
We are not on the Season 1 grid. While the league fights in Shenzhen, we train. Three milestones stand between the workshop and our first walkout.
Public Presentation
BASILISK steps into the light: live balance and motion demonstration, full telemetry feed, and the team that built it.
Build & Training
Simulation-first development: motion control, balance recovery, and tactics policies trained around the clock - then transferred to the hardware.
NOW · EUROPE
URKL Season 1
The league's inaugural season runs in Shenzhen. Every fight is data - we study the grid we are about to join.
2026 · SHENZHEN
Season 2 Debut
Azimuth PRO enters the URKL grid at the start of the next season. First walkout, first fight card, first azimuth set in the ring.
MID-2027 · SHENZHEN
UNVEILING NIGHT - THE BEST MOMENTS.
Official highlights from the URKL unveiling night in Shenzhen - the grid BASILISK is training to join. Straight from the league's channel.
STANDARD HARDWARE. NO EXCEPTIONS.
Every URKL team fields the identical EngineAI T800. Structural changes and weapons are prohibited - the platform is the level playing field, and the leaderboard measures nothing but software.
Chassis
A 1.73-meter humanoid frame in aviation-grade aluminum, 75 to 85 kilograms, with 29 degrees of freedom driven by high-torque actuators peaking at 450 Nm - built for explosive movement.
1.73 M · 75-85 KG · 29 DOF
Sensing
360-degree LiDAR and stereo cameras feed millisecond-level environmental processing. The machine reads distance, posture, and momentum faster than a human can blink.
360° LIDAR · STEREO · MS-CLASS
Power & Cooling
A solid-state lithium battery delivers four to five hours of continuous operation. Active joint cooling keeps actuators in their performance window through sustained exchanges.
SOLID-STATE · 4H · ACTIVE COOLING
IDENTICAL ROBOTS. THE SOFTWARE FIGHTS.
Hardware modifications are forbidden in URKL, so every win is a software win. Four disciplines decide whether a machine stands or falls - all four are built in-house.
Motion Control
Whole-body trajectories computed in real time: strikes, evasions, and recoveries composed from a library of learned movements and executed across 29 degrees of freedom at once.
Balance Under Impact
The hardest problem in the sport: staying upright while being hit. Our controllers absorb contact, redistribute load, and counter-step before a fall becomes a knockdown.
Perception
Fusing LiDAR sweeps and stereo vision into a single, millisecond-fresh model of the opponent - position, stance, and the attack that hasn't landed yet.
Autonomous Tactics
No remote control. The machine selects openings, manages energy, and commits to exchanges on its own - strategy encoded before the fight, decisions made inside it.
SET THEAZIMUTH.HOLD THEBALANCE.
An azimuth is a direction held under pressure. We build software that keeps a machine oriented, upright, and deliberate while the world tries to knock it over. The ring is the proving ground; the technology is the point.
THE GRID WE ARE JOINING.
More than 200 teams registered for URKL worldwide - Stanford, UC Berkeley, Tsinghua, Zhejiang, and the University of Hong Kong among them - and 32 made it through qualification onto the grid.
PUT YOUR LOGO ON THE ROBOT.
Two identical robots, 32 teams, a global broadcast from Shenzhen. Sponsorship funds the build - three partner tiers plus an open crowdfund that covers computing power and LLM tokens. Season 1 is fighting in Shenzhen right now.
YOUR LOGO ON THE ARMOR.
League rules freeze the machine, not its protective gear - team-developed armor and apparel are where partner brands live. This is the Season 2 placement we sell.
Final placement follows the league equipment rules · armor and apparel are team-developed
Titanium
Title Partner
The flagship seat. Your brand on the robot, in the team name, and in every story we tell.
- +Naming rights - the team fights under your brand
- +Logo on the robot's armor and team apparel
- +Presence in every broadcast, press kit, and video
- +Behind-the-scenes access and reveal-day hosting
Carbon
Main Partner
Front-row presence across the whole season, right behind the title.
- +Logo on team apparel and the pit wall
- +Featured in fight-day graphics and recaps
- +Dedicated features on our channels
- +Invitations to the reveal and season events
Steel
Official Partner
A season-long slot with a steady presence in everything we publish.
- +Logo on the website and stream overlays
- +Mentions in engineering notes and recaps
- +Placement in the season press kit
- +Access to official media assets
Backers
Crowdfunding
Back the build directly. The crowdfund pays for computing power only - nothing else - and every invoice is public, accounted down to the last cent.
- +Funds compute exclusively
- +Every invoice published - transparent to the cent
- +Name on the supporters wall
- +Season updates straight from the workshop
PRICING AND CROWDFUND RULES - EARLY SEPTEMBER.
Every invoice public, accounted to the cent - as promised.
Own your booking system
- +One fixed price, full code handoff
- +100% IP ownership, zero transaction fees
- +3-year post-delivery support
TELL THE STORY WITH US.
For editorial teams, podcasts, and channels that want to cover the build from the inside. Media patrons get access - we get the reach.
- +Media patron logo on the site and in the season press kit
- +Early access to announcements and embargoed reveal material
- +Interviews with the crew and behind-the-scenes footage
- +Accreditation for fight nights and season events
LET'S TALK.
Sponsors and media patrons: leave your business or editorial email and we'll get back to you directly - full deck, pricing, and patronage terms included.
Full deck and pricing on request · hello@azimuthpro.com
WEAR THE COLORS.
Caps, hoodies, and tees. The first drop lands with the reveal.
Cap: Team
Low-profile cap with the embroidered team mark. Fight-night standard issue.
DROP 001 · COMING SOON
Hoodie: Crew
The heavyweight hoodie the crew wears when working and resting - azimuth mark on the chest, grid on the back.
DROP 001 · COMING SOON
Tee: Season 2
Season 2 tee with the robot name and the coordinates of the ring.
DROP 001 · COMING SOON
Mission Patch
Woven patch of the build - one numbered run per season.
DROP 001 · LIMITED
First drop ships with the reveal - tell us you want in
LATEST FROM THE WORKSHOP.
Inside the T800: The Body Every URKL Team Shares
A close look at the EngineAI T800 - the standardized humanoid platform behind every URKL fight - and why identical hardware makes the software the whole sport.
23 JUL 2026 · EngineeringThe Software Is the Fighter
With URKL hardware fixed, four software disciplines decide every exchange: motion control, balance under impact, perception, and autonomous tactics. Here is how we split the problem.
17 JUL 2026 · PressAzimuth PRO Enters the URKL: We Are Building a Fighting Robot
Official announcement: Azimuth PRO will field an autonomous humanoid robot in URKL Season 2. Public presentation of BASILISK planned for Q1 2027 in Europe.
WHAT EVERYONE ASKS ABOUT THE PROJECT.
01What exactly is URKL?
The Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend - the world's first commercialized free-combat league for full-size autonomous humanoid robots, organized by Shenzhen-based EngineAI. It debuted on 16 July 2026 at the Nanshan Cultural and Sports Center. 32 teams compete for a 10-million-yuan prize pool and a solid-gold championship belt.
02Why does every team use the same robot?
The league supplies every team with an identical EngineAI T800 and prohibits hardware modifications and weapons of any kind. With the hardware fixed, teams win or lose purely on software: motion control, balance under impact, perception, and autonomous tactics. It is a benchmark, not an arms race.
03Is Azimuth PRO really autonomous?
Yes. There is no remote control and no human in the loop during a fight. The machine perceives its opponent through on-board LiDAR and stereo cameras and makes every decision itself, in real time. Our work happens before the bell - in the software.
04When will we see Azimuth PRO fight?
The robot's first public presentation is planned for Q1 2027 in Europe. Our competitive debut follows at the start of URKL Season 2, in mid-2027. Season 1 runs without us - we are using it as the best dataset in the sport.
05Isn't robot fighting just staged violence?
It is closer to a crash test than a brawl. The machines are standardized, unarmed, and nobody gets hurt. Full-contact competition is the harshest benchmark available for balance, impact recovery, and real-time decision-making - the same capabilities that disaster-response and heavy-logistics robots need. Like the DARPA challenges before it, the league exists to accelerate the engineering.
06Who pays for all this?
Partners and an open crowdfund pay for the league run - we are not selling equity here. Three partner tiers - Titanium, Carbon, and Steel - plus a crowdfund that covers computing power and LLM tokens only. Every invoice for compute bought with backer money is public, accounted down to the last cent. Partner slots and the supporters wall are in the sponsorship section.
07Is a fighting robot the whole business?
No - the league is the proving ground. Long term, Azimuth PRO will train and adapt Chinese humanoid robots for the European market and for specific industries and tasks: the software, the safety envelope, and the behaviors a given job actually demands. Full-contact competition is simply the harshest place to prove our controls and perception hold up before a machine walks onto a factory floor.
08Are you hiring?
Yes - but a seat on this crew is won, not filled. Instead of a CV you send a pitch: the edge you would give the machine in one of four disciplines - simulation, controls, perception, or operations. Every application gets an answer, at most 20 candidates go to interviews, and the winners fly with the crew to Shenzhen for Season 2. The full challenge is on the team page.
THE AZIMUTH IS SET.THE CLOCK IS RUNNING.
Follow the road to the reveal and to URKL Season 2 - milestones and league results in real time.
Presentation Q1 2027 · First fight in Season 2