BattleBots: Le Choc des Robots

BattleBots: Le Choc des Robots
Network	Gulli M6 (Repeated)
Champion	SawBlaze (Season 7) Tantrum (Season 6) End Game (Season 5) Bite Force (Season 4) Bite Force (Season 3) Tombstone (Season 2) Bite Force (Season 1)
Runner-up	HUGE (Season 7) Witch Doctor (Season 6) Whiplash (Season 5) Witch Doctor (Season 4) Minotaur (Season 3) Bombshell (Season 2) Tombstone (Season 1)
Premiere Date	Gulli - May 14, 2019 M6 - December 22, 2020 September 10, 2022 (Season 2) November 25, 2023 (Season 3)
Location	Vallejo, CA

BattleBots: Le Choc des Robots is a French dub of BattleBots which has aired on the domestic network Gulli.

It is one of the only known dubs to feature unique presenters to appeal to a non-English speaking audience. Chris Rose and Kenny Florian's presenting and commentary roles were fulfilled by Issa Doumbia and Nicolas Ciattoni, with Olivier Cordina, Marc Duquenoy, Laura Mazzoni and Serge Thiriet credited for the narration of builders and other personalities from the show such as Faruq Tauheed for his pre-fight introductions. Visual segments featuring the French-speaking presenters were performed with the use of a green screen, with the pair sat at a desk protected onto a background graphic to give the illusion of them being present at the studio. Notably, a different robotic voice is used to say "Robots Activate!" in French, translated as "Robots, Activez!" with a silent T in the word "robots".

Unique for the Gulli airing of the show was a CGI combat robot to the right of both presenters, equipped with horizontal circular saws on either side and an overhead axe. It was purple in color with black and yellow warning stripes across the sides and front. The words "Le Choc des Robots" were detailed on the shaft of its axe and Gulli's logo was present on the front. Episodes were 45 minutes in length, with two often airing back-to-back each week at 9pm and 9:45pm timeslots each Tuesday. Brief trailers were uploaded to Gulli's website ahead of each episode airing, and several battles were uploaded too with unique thumbnails. However, no full episodes are available to watch outside of France. In late 2020, BattleBots: Le Choc des Robots was repeated on French channel M6.

In August 2022, Gulli announced that a new season would be premiering on September 10, 2022, with Nicolas Ciattoni and Issa Doumbia retaining their roles as presenters. This was later confirmed as a French dub of World Championship II. A dub of World Championship III followed in November 2023, again hosted by Doumbia and Ciattoni.

In 2024, World Championship VI and VII premiered, with the latter's final episode airing in February 2025.

Both presenters in a promotional piece for Season 7.

Presenters Issa Doumbia and Nicolas "Cartman" Ciattoni.

The unique promotional image for Ghost Raptor vs. Warrior Clan from the 2015 season.

A close-up of the CGI robot for the French dub on Gulli.

Trivia

• BattleBots: Le Choc des Robots is one of only two known international dubs of BattleBots to feature unique presenters.
  • The other is Walki robotów, which is the Polish dub.
• While Faruq Tauheed's introductions are dubbed in French, Issa Doumbia and Nicolas Ciattoni still make reference to Faruq by name.
• Season 3 of BattleBots: Le Choc des Robots wrongly rounds the maximum heavyweight limit up to 115kg (253.5lbs), whereas the actual 250lb weight limit translates to 113.4kg.