BattleBots Powered by Bright Data Greenlights 20-Episode Season and Launch of Pro League

LAS VEGAS -- The epic robot-fighting series BattleBots powered by Bright Data is making a triumphant return to the screen with 20 all-new episodes featuring an exclusive Pro League of 24 elite robots from around the world.

The series, which begins filming in Las Vegas in April, is slated to premiere June 25, 2026 with Bright Data watch parties hosted around the world in tech hubs. It will be released weekly on YouTube through November, before being distributed to broadcasters internationally in early 2027. The news follows the announcement earlier this month of a ground-breaking sponsorship deal with Bright Data, the leading public web data infrastructure company for Artificial Intelligence and Business Intelligence.

The BattleBots Pro League powered by Bright Data consists of 24 of the biggest, baddest, strongest and fastest next-generation robots from all over the world. They include household names such as former World Champions Tombstone and New Zealand's End Game, as well as newcomers, including the world's first AI-controlled robot Orbitron, from Canada. Also selected for the league are fan favourites Witch Doctor and Hypershock from Florida, Brazilian champion Minotaur, and bots from Australia, India and the United Kingdom.

Each episode will be accompanied by Bright Data-powered statistics, polling fans, and stacking up the competition.

For the first time, millions of BattleBots fans worldwide will be able to watch the competition at the same time free of charge, without having to pay streaming or cable charges. Edward Roski, BattleBots co-founder, said: "Our fans have been begging us to release new content globally, and now, thanks to YouTube and our great new sponsor Bright Data, we're able to achieve this. We already have almost 3 million YouTube subscribers, and over 10 million views in the past month. We can't wait to launch the Pro League season, powered by Bright Data, which will transform the BattleBots brand across the world."

"We are excited to be part of this transformational year in which fighting bots make a comeback on the screen," said Or Lenchner, CEO of Bright Data. "As fans ourselves, we are working to up the experience with watch parties at our global locations and competition dashboards."

BattleBots regulars Chris Rose, Kenny Florian and Faruq Tauheed will host, but the championship format differs dramatically from previous BattleBots seasons. The 24 elite robots will battle each other and the hazards of the huge bulletproof BattleBox in a series of ferocious no-holds-barred Group Stage matches, with the winner of each group emerging to take part in a knockout winner-takes-all competition. It culminates in a final fight to the death to establish the first BattleBots Pro League World Champion. The winner will take home the new BattleBots Bright Data Pro League trophy.

Filming takes place at the BattleBots Arena, next to the Horseshoe Casino, over three weeks from Saturday 18th April. Tickets for the event are available for advance purchase by BattleBots Supporters from today and will go on general public sale through Ticketmaster from next Monday 2nd March. Each filming session lasts up to three hours, depending on the fight schedule. The full list of robot teams in the Pro League can be found on battlebots.com

About Bright Data

Bright Data is the leading web data infrastructure company, trusted by over 20,000 organizations to ethically access and collect public web data at scale.

Supporting the entire AI lifecycle, Bright Data's platform delivers LLM-ready, compliant data packages, and unlocks efficient, large-scale video and media extraction for multimodal training. For inference, Bright Data powers advanced web search and extraction, while enabling AI agents to autonomously navigate and interact with websites through our unstoppable remote browser infrastructure.

With built-in governance, flexible delivery, and alignment to global compliance standards, it supports secure, efficient, and auditable operations.

About BattleBots:

BattleBots is the world's #1 Tech sport.

Since 1999 it has staged robotic combat events, with thousands of fights featured on its hit TV series on Comedy Central, ABC and Discovery. The company owns a 1,000-seat theater in Las Vegas (the BattleBots Arena), with its iconic BattleBox, where the live show BattleBots: Destruct-A-Thon has been staged since 2003.

BattleBots is a major supporter of STEM education initiatives, and each year its BattleBots Camps, held across America, bring the excitement of robot building to thousands of kids.