We are building the world championship of physical AI — a live event where robots perform the work of an ordinary human day in front of an audience, with nothing hidden and nothing edited. This is why we are building it, and how competitors, partners, and spectators can be part of the first P.AI Games.
12 teams per semi-final
10 real-world competitions
$1,000,000+ cash prize
Robotics today runs on footage: the best thirty seconds of a machine that mostly failed, filmed by the people who built it. Nobody outside the room can tell a breakthrough from a good edit, and a field this important deserves better evidence than that. So we are building the place where honest evidence can finally be produced — a live, ticketed world championship where machines do ordinary work under the same rules, on the same clock, in front of people who paid to watch.
A run is designed to be timed to the millisecond, captured by high-speed cameras and scored through automated, auditable systems against published rules. You can watch a robot fail as clearly as you can watch it win, and both are on the record.
An open international grid, ten arenas, two days, one arena. The same measurements, the same referee and the same penalties apply to a national laboratory and to three students working out of a borrowed workshop.
Buyers, investors, teachers and families need one honest reference for what a robot can actually do today. The 2027 results become that reference, and the baseline every later season is measured against.
The world championship of physical AI: a live, ticketed event where robots compete at the ordinary work of a human home and a human street — not in a lab or simulator, but in a sealed arena in front of a paying crowd and a planned global broadcast audience.
Robotics demos are filmed, edited and repeated until they look perfect. Sport cannot be edited. By putting every robot on the same clock, in the same arena, under the same rules, The P.AI Games creates the first honest public scoreboard for physical AI — and a benchmark the whole industry can be measured against.
Ten arenas over two days, designed around automated, auditable scoring using LiDAR, high-speed optics and millisecond timing. The Adaptive Standard turns most failures into time penalties and rewards precision with time bonuses. Declared teleoperation is allowed in the inaugural Games and adds a +60-second penalty to the run time; undisclosed human input remains a violation. Teams keep 100% of their intellectual property.
Robotics companies, research labs, universities and startups — and just as much makers, students and independent builders who form a group around their own hardware or a third-party robot, ready to put a machine on a common benchmark. Teams may compete on third-party robot platforms; they do not need to manufacture the robot. Humanoids, arm-plus-AMR systems and other safe mobile manipulators are welcome.
The P.AI Games is organised as a world championship, not a hackathon or a trade-show demo. Each of the ten arenas crowns its own champion, the two days add up to an overall title, and everything is settled on the arena floor under declared control modes. The winners in Tel Aviv on May 18–19, 2027 will hold the inaugural P.AI Games titles.
Over US$1,000,000 in total cash is on the line: in each of the ten arenas US$100,000 to the winner, US$10,000 for second and US$2,500 for third.
Every competition is a championship in its own right, with its own podium, its own prize and its own record to beat.
Results carry across both days, so the most complete machine takes the championship — not the team with the luckiest draw.
Every run is archived with its telemetry and its video, so a 2027 result is still a 2027 result in 2040.
2027 is the first edition. The standard, the ranking and the community are built to come back, season after season.
A championship is only worth as much as the discipline behind it. These are the lines we hold, and the reason a result from this arena means something outside it.
Nothing is edited, retimed or repeated until it looks good. A robot that drops the plate drops on the scoreboard, and the crowd sees it happen.
The same technical limits, the same scrutineering and the same referee apply to a factory squad and to a university group building in a basement.
Dual-channel emergency stops, battery containment, real DNF conditions and a medical-grade arena protocol. Speed never buys an exemption.
You do not have to build the robot. Labs, consortia, startups and mixed teams may compete on third-party platforms — humanoids, arm-plus-AMR systems and other safe mobile manipulators.
Public scoring, published rules, released timing. Teams keep 100% of their intellectual property; we take none of it and ask for none of it.
English and Hebrew at launch, including right-to-left layouts, with more languages planned to follow as the global community grows.
Ten competitions, one planned arena, automated and auditable scoring, and a live crowd. Every run is designed to be timed to the millisecond, captured for replay, and scored in public — so the results mean something long after the lights go down.
Tel Aviv host city
Global broadcast planned
Teams keep 100% of their IP
The P.AI Games is not another conference the robotics world attends once a year. It is the meeting place the field has been missing: the people who build machines, the people who fund them, the people who study them and the people who simply love watching something difficult done well — in one hall, on the same weekend, with the lights up.
Robotics companies, laboratories, universities and startups — and makers, students and independent groups who team up with their own or third-party hardware. Applications are open now, and the grid is chosen on what the machine can do in the arena.
School groups, university clubs and student robotics teams come for the finals and stay in the paddock, where the people who built the machines explain how they work.
Ten thousand seats, two days, ten live finals and a sport you can actually read. Early-bird standard two-day admission is US$89, 55% off the US$199 price — not VIP, and no payment today.
A two-day, side-by-side view of who can genuinely deliver, away from the demo theatrics, with the paddock, the timing data and the teams all in one building.
A global feed, millisecond scoring and a story that writes itself: the first time machines were asked to compete in public, with nothing held back.
Tel Aviv opens the inaugural championship, and with it the region's engineers, students and startups who get to watch a world title decided on home ground.
English and Hebrew at launch; more languages to follow
Right-to-left layouts from day one
10,000 spectators in one arena
Up to 12 teams per arena semi-final
Team registration and technical standards are published; the spectator waiting list opens at US$89 for standard two-day admission, 55% off the US$199 price. Not VIP.
Qualified robot teams announced with their declared platforms and chosen competitions.
Mass inspection, radio clearance, dual-channel emergency-stop validation and battery containment audit.
Two days, ten arenas, one live arena in Tel Aviv, over US$1,000,000 in total cash prizes.
If your research team can make a robot perform under pressure, enter the grid — even when the platform comes from a third-party manufacturer. Humanoids, arm-plus-AMR systems and other safe mobile manipulators are welcome. If you want to watch history, join the early-bird waiting list for US$89 standard two-day admission — 55% off the US$199 price, not VIP, with no payment today.