Facts

• Company: Booster Robotics
• Product type: Humanoid
• Status: commercial
• Capability focus: Generalist
• Website: https://www.booster.tech

Profile sections

• Summary
• Overview
• Market context
• Audience
• Workflow
• Capability
• Deployment environment
• Positioning tags
• Specifications
• Tags
• Record / Articles
• Timeline / Research
• Operations Claims / Customers and deployments
• Comparable Systems
• Sources

Summary

Booster K1 is Booster Robotics compact embodied-development platform for education, research and humanoid AI experiments. It provides lightweight biped hardware and onboard compute options for developers working on perception, control and robot learning.

Overview

Booster K1 is Booster Robotics compact embodied-development platform for education, research and humanoid AI experiments. It provides lightweight biped hardware and onboard compute options for developers working on perception, control and robot learning.

Market context

Booster K1 is a lightweight portable humanoid for teaching, research demos, competition use and introductory embodied AI development.

• Target environment: Classrooms, research labs and educational robotics environments.
• Workflow context: Humanoid education, research demonstrations, competition participation and introductory embodied AI development.
• Customer context: Educators, students and researchers seeking an affordable humanoid platform for learning.
• Deployment model: Commercial product aimed at education and entry-level research.
• Commercial maturity: Commercially available entry-level humanoid with classroom and lab adoption.
• Adoption constraints: Limited payload and capabilities restrict it to educational and light research use.
• Market position: Lowers the cost floor for schools and labs building embodied AI and humanoid curriculum at small scale.
• Adjacent products: Booster T1, educational humanoid platforms

Audience

Researchers

Workflow

Humanoid education, research demonstrations, competition participation and introductory embodied AI development.

Capability

generalist

Deployment environment

Classrooms, research labs and educational robotics environments.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Researchers
• Workflow: Humanoid education, research demonstrations, competition participation and introductory embodied AI development.
• Capability: generalist
• Deployment environment: Classrooms, research labs and educational robotics environments.

Specifications

• Height: 95 cm
• Weight: 19.5 kg
• Dof: 22
• Leg Dof: 6
• Arm Dof: 4
• Head Dof: 2
• Runtime: 30 minutes to 80 minutes walking at 0.4 m/s depending on configuration
• Battery Capacity: 2 Ah or 5 Ah depending on configuration
• Communication: WiFi 6, Bluetooth 5.2, and Gigabit Ethernet expansion port
• Developer Support: Secondary development supported

Tags

• Peer Group: Developer humanoid platform
• Capability: Bipedal locomotion
• Deployment Environment: Research lab
• Stack Layer: Finished robot platform
• Commercial Stage: Developer platform

Record / Articles

• 2026-04-17 - Article - Booster Robotics raises nearly 1 billion yuan as Q1 shipments surge 500%

Timeline / Research

• 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…

Operations Claims / 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…

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• MagicBot Z1 - MagicLab - Anthropomorphic Biped
• G1 - Unitree - Humanoid
• E1 - Noetix Robotics (松延动力) - Humanoid
• AI Sapiens K0 - ROBOTIS - Humanoid
• SA01 - ENGINEAI - Humanoid