Media.
The public trail behind the robots — interviews, creator videos, live fights, press, photographs, Berkeley records, and the competition history underneath it all.
01 · VIDEO
WATCH ME / WATCH THE ROBOTS
Start with the direct interview and creator video, then go to UFB's uploaded YouTube footage before the Twitch archive and original broadcasts.
JOBTOPIA WITH TONY MOORE
Robo Fight Club — Episode #297
A 27-minute conversation with Gursimar Virk about leading Combat Robotics at Berkeley, GLITCH, MALWARE, competition repair, sponsorship, student engineering, and the strange career pipeline growing around humanoid robot fighting.
LINUS TECH TIPS
I Joined Robot Fight Club
UFB5 at the BattleBots Arena in Las Vegas. The video follows the creator pilots, the robots, the workshop, fight day, and the matches that turned UFB into a very public humanoid-robot spectacle.
ULTIMATE BOTS
UFB videos on YouTube
The league's uploaded videos and event clips — a better place to start than the live-stream archive because you can find individual fights and actually see the pilots in action.
ULTIMATE BOTS
UFB Fight Footage Archive
The league’s live-stream channel and clips preserve the event atmosphere, matchups, and robot behavior beyond the edited highlight videos.
ULTIMATE BOTS
Watch the original UFB broadcasts
UFB has publicly described its events as globally streamed competitions. The league's public footprint points to Twitch and YouTube as the primary broadcast platforms.
02 · ARTICLES
ARTICLES
Press and public records around the fights, the Berkeley robotics program, and the longer engineering story.
FRENCH / INTERNATIONAL PRESS
French-language coverage of UFB
French-language coverage of the Las Vegas humanoid-robot fight night, preserving the event’s international press trail.
BERKELEY × STANFORD
Robot fight coverage
A direct clip from UFB3’s Stanford-versus-Berkeley card, with the broader event VOD also listed on the competition stats page.
THE WASHINGTON POST
Pictures of the Year 2025
A visual roundup from the wider 2025 news cycle, included as context for the media landscape around live robotics and combat-robot events.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Peak San Francisco robot fight
A reported look at San Francisco’s emerging humanoid robot-fighting scene and the public attention around live robot competitions.
SAN FRANCISCO STANDARD
The most San Francisco sport ever?
Local reporting on Bay Area robot boxing and the emerging UFB fight circuit.
AFP / YAHOO NEWS
Humanoid robots go for knockout in high-tech Vegas fight night
An additional syndication of AFP’s report on the Las Vegas humanoid-robot fight night, alongside the French-language and Kuwait Times versions.
AFP / KUWAIT TIMES
Humanoid robots go for knockout in high-tech Vegas fight night
I was there competing that night and was pulled for an interview. This AFP report documents the UFB5 event at the Las Vegas BattleBots Arena and its international press coverage.
COMBAT ROBOTICS AT BERKELEY
GLITCH in the BattleBots yearbook
The official BattleBots team record: GLITCH's builder roster, robot details, and match history. This replaces the generic university press article with the robot's own competition record.
COMBAT ROBOTICS AT BERKELEY
Combat Robotics at Berkeley — current website
The current club website for its 1 lb, 15 lb, 30 lb, and heavyweight programs.
GLITCH / COMBAT ROBOTICS AT BERKELEY
Follow GLITCH on Instagram
The GLITCH BattleBots Instagram account, alongside the official robot record and competition archive.
03 · ROBOTICS STATS
THE COMPETITION TRAIL
Competitions, teams, mentoring, robots, and the fights that came out of the program.
04 · BERKELEY / ARCHIVE
THE LONG TAIL
Older records, university coverage, outreach, and the engineering trail that predates the big robot-fight headlines.
TECHWOMEN × UC BERKELEY
Robotics Demo Expert
TechWomen 2025 orientation materials publicly identify Gursimar among the networking guests and robotics demo experts at the CITRIS / Banatao Institute / UC Berkeley event. The organizer also said more photos and videos were coming.
ROBOT COMBAT EVENTS
Berkeley Bot Bash
I started the first Berkeley Bot Bash and began the tradition. With the help of my team, we were able to launch the event; it has since been passed on and continues as a team tradition.
COMBAT ROBOTICS AT BERKELEY
CRB public archive
Primary club documentation for GLITCH, MALWARE, the 1 lb / 3 lb / 15 lb / 30 lb program, Berkeley Bot Bash, and the team's BattleBots history.
BATTLEBOTS
GLITCH — official match record
The official BattleBots robot page preserves GLITCH's match history, including fights against Ghost Raptor, Hydra, Kraken, Rotator, Uppercut, Gruff, Retrograde, and later WCVII opponents.
UC BERKELEY COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Engineering 98 — Insider's Guide to Berkeley Engineering
The student-run Engineering DeCal I taught, introducing students to Berkeley Engineering through advice and experience from upper-division students.
E29 · MANUFACTURING & DESIGN COMMUNICATION
E29 project / manufacturing archive
Course context for E29, the manufacturing-and-design communication course at Berkeley: drawings, tolerancing, fabrication, prototyping, and the open-ended final project.
CALIFORNIA SCIENCE & ENGINEERING FAIR
Watt's the Deal with Waterwheels?
Gursimar Virk, Grade 8, Sanger Academy Charter School. A published CSEF project investigating how paddle geometry affects waterwheel performance.
FIRST
FY22 Annual Impact Report
Gursimar Virk appears in FIRST's public FY22 report. This belongs in the long-form archive as an early robotics/public-record marker.