Booster T1
Booster T1 is a 1.18 m robust humanoid built for research and robot soccer. Its ability to survive falls made it popular with university RoboCup teams.
Booster Robotics press imageThe verdict
Built for developers and it shows: a RoboCup-winning platform with real documentation and a distributor network that will actually answer email. You pay for that. At $29,800 for the basic build it costs more than twice a G1, and the gap is support and access rather than raw capability.
- Buy it if
- University teams and companies that need a supported platform, not the cheapest one.
- Skip it if
- Budget is the constraint. The G1 does most of this for less.
In its favour
- Genuine European and American distribution
- RoboCup 2025 champion, proven in competition
- Developer-first documentation
Against it
- Expensive next to Chinese competition
- Reseller prices vary by thousands
- Grippers push it past $50,000
How the score is built
Capability is what the machine physically does. Value compares it with others at a similar price, not with the whole market. Buyability asks whether you can really order one. Ecosystem is the software and community around it. Proof is what it has done in the field, which is where most humanoids score badly and should.
- Status
- Commercial
- Category
- education
- First revealed
- 2024
- Form
- bipedal
- Height
- 118 cm
- Weight
- 30 kg
- Payload
- n/a
- Degrees of freedom
- 23
- Battery
- n/a
- Runtime
- n/a
- Walking speed
- n/a
- Actuation
- electric
- Units deployed (est.)
- not disclosed
- Teleoperation
- partial
Where it stands
Research and competition humanoid, the standard platform of the RoboCup humanoid kid-size league since 2025.
What stands out
- RoboCup 2025 platform
Autonomy, observed
Autonomous soccer at RoboCup 2025; standing up after falls.
Hands, sensors, brain
- Sensors: RGB-D camera
- Compute: Nvidia Jetson AGX Orin
- AI stack: RL locomotion with open SDK
Price and volume
Public list price unverified.
Index position
In the Humanoid Index, which ranks on shipped reality rather than value for money, Booster T1 sits at #19 of 107 with 46 points: deployment 14/50, autonomy 12/30, availability 20/20. See that method.
Deposits, lead times and warranties: reading a humanoid order sheet
Of 42 buy records, 2 publish a deposit, 1 a warranty, 1 a shipping cost and none a lead time in weeks. The order sheet for a humanoid is mostly blank, and the blanks are where the money goes.
How a humanoid robot works: actuators, compute, sensors and the model
Of 182 humanoids on record, 178 say what moves the joints and 43 say what computer is inside. The further a layer sits from the metal, the less the maker tells you about it.
Humanoid races, games and fights: what the competitions proved
Our record holds 11 competition events from 1997 to 2025 and 17 machines tied to them. Six can be ordered, three at a public price, and 13 of the 17 carry a teleoperation flag of yes or partial.
Open-source humanoids: what you can actually build
24 of the 182 humanoids on record call themselves open source. 15 publish hardware files and software, 3 name a licence, 12 can be ordered, and none of the four on preorder has any autonomy evidence yet.
What humanoid robots can actually do in 2026
Of 182 humanoid robots on record, 117 have a human in the loop, 33 have ever worked at a customer site and none has a verified fleet count. Here is what that leaves.
Why hands are the hardest part of a humanoid
Of 182 humanoids on record, 96 describe their hands and 13 publish a degrees-of-freedom figure for them. The word dexterous appears 21 times and comes with a number once.
Other robots by Booster Robotics.
Sources
- 01Booster Robotics official siteBooster Robotics
Price sources
- 01Booster T1 humanoid robotGeneration Robots
- 02Humanoid robots for sale: prices and US legalityRoboZaps · 2026-07-28
- 03Humanoid robot prices, 2026 guideRobotSourced · 2026-07-31
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