Underdog WPI looks to upset MIT in round of 16 in BattleBots World Championship on Discovery Channel Updated Mar 05, 2021; Posted Mar 04, 2021 WPI's Ribbot robot is competing in the final 16 on Thursday as part of the Discovery Channel's BattleBots World Championship. Facebook Share Glass slippers likely don’t last long in the BattleBots arena, but this year, Worcester Polytechnic Institute is making a run as a Cinderella team through the Discovery Channel’s World Championships. Seeded 20th in a field that originally began with 60 BattleBots teams, WPI’s Ribbot robot will face another Baystate foe in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Thursday.