The Robot Arena at Breakpoint | by BitRobot, UFB, and io.net
For the first time ever at Breakpoint — and in the Middle East — BitRobot Foundation, in partnership with UFB and io.net, is bringing a full live robot combat arena to Etihad Arena.
Join us for a showcase of robotics on Solana, featuring:
Live robot fights inside the 5m x 5m cage
Hardware stations from io.net, GEODNET, and FrodoBots
Sidewalk rovers, humanoids, teleoperation rigs, and dataset-generation tool demos
Giveaways and a photobooth experience with robots for attendees
The fight card is stacked with OGs and Solana builders settling long-running rivalries — metal on metal.
Featured match-ups (full schedule dropping soon):
Raj vs. Anatoly
SolJakey vs. Solana Steve
Mike Dudas vs. Kyle Samani
Austin Federa vs. Arnold Lee
Plus: death-match battle royales with appearances from Magic Eden, Solflare Wallet, Drift, Orca, Trojan, $MUMU, $CHONKY, $WEN, Superteam CA, Superteam UK, Solana Skyline, Monke DAO, Solana Summer TV, OFFLINE and more.
RSVP to stay updated on fight times, lineup reveals, and surprises. See you ringside at the Robot Arena.
Thank you to our sponsors io.net, GEODNET, and the Solana Foundation.
About BitRobot
BitRobot is the distributed platform for open robotics R&D. By coordinating global contributors, hardware, and compute through shared infrastructure, it enables breakthroughs in embodied AI that no single lab could achieve alone. Research missions and subnets in its ecosystem have already produced the world’s largest open-source sidewalk navigation dataset and brought together collaborators from Google DeepMind, Meta AI, UC Berkeley, and beyond.
About Ultimate Fighting Bots (UFB)
UFB (Ultimate Fighting Bots) is the world’s first real-world robot fighting league. Featuring teleoperated humanoids and custom-built combat robots, UFB brings high-intensity, physical robot battles to live audiences through structured match formats, creator showdowns, and arena events.
About io.net
io.net is a decentralized AI compute network that turns distributed GPUs into a high-performance cloud for model training and inference. By coordinating global hardware supply through onchain primitives, io.net delivers low-latency, scalable compute infrastructure for machine learning teams, researchers, and enterprises.
About GEODNET
GEODNET is the decentralized location layer for robotics that provides high-precision Real-Time Kinematics (RTK) corrections for Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), offering 100x more accurate positioning than standard GPS.
About Frodobots
FrodoBots is the development lab building robotic adventures on the BitRobot Network. The team specializes in designing low-cost, high-utility hardware for robotics R&D, including the Earth Rover and RoboCap platforms. FrodoBots created the world’s largest open-source sidewalk navigation dataset using the Earth Rover system, unlocking new possibilities for embodied AI research. The lab is backed by Protocol Labs, Big Brain Holdings, Solana Ventures, and other leading investors.