Or, to be more kid friendly: really, really clumsy sumo wrestling. Sumotori Dreams is really just a demoscene, consisting of two self-balancing physics rigs facing off against one another in a sumo ring.

The game itself is very simple, but the true beauty lies in watching the rock ‘em sock ‘em-esque wrestlers as they attempt to get to their feet and bow to each other. If they’re not on solid ground, they’ll stumble around with their arms flailing until they regain their balance or take a hard spill. Adding to the already enormous pleasure of watching the AI look like Charlie Chaplin in a room full of banana peels is the breakable barriers surrounding the ring. A wrestler, in an attempt to regain its upward mobility, will fly off the ring and crash through one of these barriers, only to vainly try again to stand and instead stumble on the rubble recently created underfoot. Sometimes it takes over a minute for the wrestlers to regain their composure and bow respectfully.

The realism of the bumbling bots looks real enough at times to remind one of America’s Funniest Home Videos. Someone should hire Bob Sagat to narrate. The controls are simple, the matches are quickly over, and the self-balancing bipedal warriors are a hilarious and impressive technical feat that may lend themselves well to serious research in robotics.