Real Steel (2011)

Real Steel – the new sci-fi sports flick from Night at the Museum director Shawn Levy – is set in the year 2020. Its vision of the future looks remarkably similar to the present, save for the fact that the sport of boxing has been taken over by pugilistic robots. 

There are no robot butlers, taxi drivers, or senators – just boxers. Apparently, technology in 2020 has advanced enough to allow for the creation of massive mechanized beings of astonishing dexterity, but humanity has found no use for them beyond the boxing ring.