Norwalk Havoc Robot League
Robot Combat League
- Type
- robot combat
The National Havoc Robot League (NHRL), formerly known as the Norwalk Havoc Robot League, is a robot combat organization headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut. Founded in 2018 by entrepreneur Austin McChord, NHRL hosts a series of open-registration tournaments each year in which hobbyist and professional builders compete in one-on-one cage matches across three weight classes. The organization is a subsidiary of Havoc Robotics Inc., and Kelly Biderman has served as its chief executive officer since 2021.
Since its founding, NHRL has grown from a regional competition to what it describes as the world's largest robot fighting tournament, drawing thousands of competitors from nearly every continent and accumulating a reported billion organic social media views annually as of 2025. In 2026, the organization launched the NHRL Pro Tour, billed as the world's first professional robot fighting league. As of June 2026, the plan is to expand the Pro Tour into a full league-style format in the 2027 season.
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Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.