The first combat robot.

And for Industrial use.

It's a fact that the humanoid robot industry is becoming more and more intense and EngineAI is another Chinese company that seems to want that show with its life-sized T800 humanoid robot, attracting a lot of attention at its debut at the 2025 WRC world robotics conference.

Designed for heavy duty tasks, it measures 1.85 cm tall, weighs 85 kg and has 41 high degree of freedom joints and to support all that, a solid state battery and an aluminum alloy casing to withstand impacts and industrial demands.

Not just a demo robbery, he is the main star of the Robot Boxer competition, a free combat event scheduled for December 24 organized by EngineAi itself, but behind the image of Peleonero there is a much more sophisticated strategy, EngineAI has been betting on combat competitions as high-stress laboratories.

In controlled environments, humanoids face extreme physical situations, falls, impacts, imbalance, rapid reading of movement that accelerate the development of hardware and algorithms, a robot capable of facing these pressure conditions inevitably ends up becoming more resistant for any other task that comes after, logistics, distribution center, hospitals, customer service and, why not? law enforcement.

The real product is the robot that will work in our home.

While promoting tournaments that look like science fiction movies, the company is also testing its humanoids in completely opposite contexts. In Shenseen, a collaboration with the giant JD.com positioned EngineAI robos as cybernetic employees inside a retail store and they interact with customers, sell products, walk between shelves, deal with real people.

The combination is bold, spectacle to attract the world and practical implementation to demonstrate that the technology works, all of this reinforces the image of a company that understands the internet and uses viralization as fuel to finance and accelerate research.

Now with the T800, the company wants to take a bigger step. It intends to produce almost 1,000 robots already in 2026 and makes the final objective clear, to put humanoids inside houses as assistants in domestic tasks, therefore, all the technology developed for combat, dynamic stability, body coordination, quick decisions, will be redirected to something much more common, sweeping the floor, serving objects, living with humans safely.

In the end, T800 is less about the fight and more about the engineering of movement, the combat is the setting, the real product is the robot that will work in our daily lives.