Facts

• Segment: Humanoid
• Country: China
• Founded: 2023
• Website: https://www.booster.tech

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Products
• Facts
• Funding
• Investors
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Operations / Deployments
• Team
• Relationships
• Context tags
• Customers and deployments
• Record / Articles
• Sources

Summary

Booster Robotics develops humanoid robot platforms for embodied-AI research, education and developer use. Its T1 and K1 robots give teams accessible bipedal hardware for locomotion, perception, reinforcement learning and real-world robot-control experiments.

Market context

Booster matters as a developer-platform play for humanoids, giving labs, schools and builders lower-cost hardware they can train, modify and deploy. Booster T1 Proprietary humanoid robotics platforms designed for developer and research use.

• Capability: Bipedal locomotion and balance control Humanoid manipulation and task execution Integrated sensing and perception systems Modular hardware and software development environments Simulation-to-real experimenta…
• Strategic position: Developer-first humanoid platform builder focused on accessibility and experimentation Positions humanoids as programmable systems rather than fixed-function robots Enables broader participation in e…

Products

• Booster K1
• Booster T1

Facts

• Website: https://www.booster.tech
• HQ: Beijing, China
• Founded: 2023
• Segment: Humanoid
• Funding total: $28
• Known funding rounds: 5
• Latest funding date: 2026-04-17

Funding

• 2026-04-17 - Venture round - $138M - Booster Robotics completes new funding round of nearly RMB 1 billion - source: tmtpost.com
• 2026-01-12 - Venture round - $14M - Booster Robotics raises over RMB 100 million in new funding round - source: news.qq.com
• 2025-07-24 - Series A+ - Booster Robotics closes Series A+ round - source: booster.tech
• 2025-06-01 - Series A - Booster Robotics closes Series A round - source: booster.tech
• 2024-09-11 - Pre-A - Booster Robotics closes Pre-A financing round - source: booster.tech

Investors

• Bohua Capital - Participant - Vc - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2025-07-24 - latest 2026-01-12
• InnoAngel Fund - Participant - Vc - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2025-06-01 - latest 2026-01-12
• Shenzhen Capital Group - Lead - Vc - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2025-06-01 - latest 2026-01-12
• Source Code Capital - Participant - Vc - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2025-06-01 - latest 2026-01-12
• Bank of Communications Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-04-17
• Beijing High-Tech Industrial Development Fund - Lead - Strategic Industrial - 1 funding event - strategic/corporate - first seen 2026-04-17
• Guohai Innovation Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-04-17
• Huakong Fund - Lead - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-04-17
• Lenovo Star - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-04-17
• Beijing Yizhuang Investment - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-01-12
• IDG Capital - Lead - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-01-12
• Beijing Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund - Lead - Corporate / Cvc - 1 funding event - strategic/corporate - first seen 2025-07-24
• Beijing Robotics Industry Development Investment Fund - Lead - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-07-24
• Bi'an Times - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-06-01
• Jinding Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-06-01
• Minyin International - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-06-01
• Bian Era Technology - Lead - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-09-11
• CMBC International - Lead - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-09-11
• iCANX Fund - Lead - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-09-11
• INNO Angel - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-09-11
• Zhongguancun Science City - Lead - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-09-11

Developer humanoid robot company

Booster Robotics develops compact humanoid robots such as T1 and K1 for research, education, RoboCup and developer use.

• Target environment: Robotics labs, education programs, RoboCup competitions, developer environments and humanoid research settings.
• Deployment model: Humanoid robot hardware sales with software, open-source support and developer services.
• Customer context: Robotics researchers, universities, developers, education programs and humanoid competition teams.
• Workflow context: Humanoid locomotion, robot soccer, obstacle avoidance, developer testing, education and secondary development.
• Commercial maturity: Commercial developer-focused humanoid company with shipping products and global developer positioning.
• Market position: Humanoid robot supplier focused on research, education and developer platforms.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on documentation, reliability, developer ecosystem, software support, price and usefulness beyond education or competition settings.
• Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes developer humanoids, education robots, RoboCup humanoids and compact biped platforms.
• Source confidence: high

Events

• 2026-05-02 - Research Publication - VOFA demonstrates force-adaptive visual object pushing on Booster T1 - VOFA presents a visual goal-conditioned humanoid loco-manipulation system for pushing objects with unknown physi…
• 2026-04-17 - Funding - Booster Robotics completes new funding round of nearly RMB 1 billion - Booster Robotics completed a new funding round of nearly RMB 1 billion.
• 2026-03-20 - Research Publication - AGILE: A Comprehensive Workflow for Humanoid Loco-Manipulation Learning - The paper presents a humanoid loco-manipulation workflow evaluated with Booster T1.
• 2026-03-18 - Research Publication - REFINE-DP presents RL fine-tuning method for data-efficient humanoid loco-manipulation - REFINE-DP jointly fine-tunes a Diffusion Policy planner and an RL-based whole-body controller…
• 2026-03-06 - Research Publication - HybridMimic: Hybrid RL-Centroidal Control for Humanoid Motion Mimicking - The paper studies hybrid reinforcement-learning and centroidal control for motion mimicking on Booster T1.
• 2026-01-12 - Funding - Booster Robotics raises over RMB 100 million in new funding round - The round was led by IDG Capital, with participation from Beijing Yizhuang Investment and existing investors including Source Co…
• 2025-12-01 - Research Publication - Learning Sim-to-Real Humanoid Locomotion in 15 Minutes - The paper trains sim-to-real humanoid locomotion on Booster T1.
• 2025-11-24 - Research Publication - AutoOdom evaluates autoregressive proprioceptive odometry on Booster T1 - AutoOdom introduces an autoregressive proprioceptive odometry system for legged locomotion in visually degrad…
• 2025-10-24 - Capability - Booster Robotics holds inaugural ecosystem summit and launches Booster Agents and developer programs - Booster Robotics holds its inaugural ecosystem summit
• 2025-10-24 - Production Milestone - Booster Robotics Begins Mass Production of K1 Humanoid Robot - Booster Robotics officially launched the Booster K1, an entry-level platform for embodied development, on October 24, 20…
• 2025-10-24 - Product Launch - Booster Robotics unveils Booster K1 embodied AI development platform for $4,999 - Booster Robotics unveiled the Booster K1 as an entry-level embodied AI development platform priced at $4,99…
• 2025-09-25 - Research Publication - SEEC: Stable End-Effector Control with Model-Enhanced Residual Learning for Humanoid Loco-Manipulation - The paper studies stable end-effector control for humanoid loco-manipulation o…
• 2025-09-25 - Research Publication - PACE: Physics Augmentation for Coordinated End-to-end Reinforcement Learning toward Versatile Humanoid Table Tennis - The paper studies coordinated reinforcement learning for humanoid…
• 2025-07-24 - Funding - Booster Robotics closes Series A+ round - Booster Robotics announces completion of a Series A+ funding round in July 2025
• 2025-07-21 - Award - Tsinghua University Wins RoboCup 2025 with Booster T1 Robots - Tsinghua University's Hephaestus team secured first place in the AdultSize category at RoboCup 2025.
• 2025-06-28 - Demonstration - Booster Robotics hosts RoBoLeague robot soccer finals using Booster T1 - Booster Robotics and Shangyicheng Group host the 2025 RoBoLeague Robot Soccer Finals
• 2025-06-18 - Research Publication - Booster Gym validates end-to-end humanoid locomotion RL on Booster T1 - The Booster Gym paper presents an end-to-end reinforcement-learning framework covering humanoid locomotion trai…
• 2025-06-01 - Funding - Booster Robotics closes Series A round - Booster Robotics completes a Series A funding round in June 2025
• 2025-03-01 - Award - Booster T1 helps Tsinghua Hephaestus win RoboCup German Open AdultSize title - Booster Robotics says Booster T1 supported Tsinghua Hephaestus in the 2025 RoboCup German Open AdultSize final
• 2025-01-23 - Production Milestone - Booster T1 shipments exceed 50 units worldwide - Booster said T1 customers spanned China, the United States, the United Arab Emirates, Germany, Switzerland, Japan and South Korea.
• 2025-01-23 - Product Launch - Booster T1 begins worldwide shipping - Booster Robotics says Booster T1 is now shipping worldwide
• 2024-12-18 - Partnership - Booster Robotics becomes an official RoboCup partner - RoboCup Federation announces partnership with Booster Robotics
• 2024-12-02 - Award - Booster T1 wins two IEEE-RAS Humanoids 2024 competitions - Booster T1 completed the free walk competition in 9.58 seconds.
• 2024-09-11 - Funding - Booster Robotics closes Pre-A financing round - Booster Robotics completes a Pre-A financing round in September 2024

Operations / Deployments

• 2025-10-24 - Production Milestone - Booster Robotics Begins Mass Production of K1 Humanoid Robot - Booster Robotics officially launched the Booster K1, an entry-level platform for embodied development, on October 24, 20…
• 2025-01-23 - Production Milestone - Booster T1 shipments exceed 50 units worldwide - Booster said T1 customers spanned China, the United States, the United Arab Emirates, Germany, Switzerland, Japan and South Korea.

Team

• Cheng Hao - Founder and CEO
• Chaoyi Li - Head of Globalization
• Aaron Chen - North America and South America go-to-market

Relationships

• Official partner - Booster Robotics became an official RoboCup partner after Booster T1 participation at RoboCup 2024.

Context tags

• Bipedal locomotion - Capability - Booster T1/K1 are humanoid robots used in RoboCup and locomotion-focused development.
• Robot OEM - Stack Layer - Company sells complete humanoid robot platforms.
• Humanoid development platform - Peer Group - Booster T1 and K1 are positioned for developers, RoboCup and education, with open-source and training resources.
• Robotics research and education - Customer Environment
• Commercial deployment - Commercial Stage
• Whole-body control - Capability - RoboCup, obstacle avoidance and locomotion frameworks support whole-body control relevance.

Customers and deployments

• Shipping Availability - over 700 humanoid robots shipped globally - 2025-10-30 - global Booster Robotics customers - developer and education humanoid platform - Booster Robotics said it had shipped over 700 humanoid rob…
• Shipment Count - more than 50 Booster T1 units shipped - 2025-01-23 - global Booster T1 customers - humanoid research and competition robotics - Booster Robotics said Booster T1 had reached mass production and global sh…

Record / Articles

• 2026-04-18 - This Week in Humanoid Robotics - Funding, deployments, and capability signals across the last 7 days. - Korthos: /research/this-week-in-humanoid-robotics
• 2026-04-17 - Booster Robotics raises nearly 1 billion yuan as Q1 shipments surge 500% - The Beijing humanoid startup's April 2026 round follows positive operating cash flow in December 2025. - Korthos: /research/booster…