Facts

• Company: Booster Robotics
• Product type: Humanoid
• Status: commercial
• Capability focus: Generalist
• Website: https://www.booster.tech/booster-t1

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 T1 is Booster Robotics humanoid robot platform for embodied-AI development and locomotion research. It is used as a physical testbed for reinforcement-learning policies, whole-body control and bipedal robot experiments.

Overview

Booster T1 is Booster Robotics humanoid robot platform for embodied-AI development and locomotion research. It is used as a physical testbed for reinforcement-learning policies, whole-body control and bipedal robot experiments.

Market context

Booster T1 is a higher-performance open humanoid for developers and researchers with ROS 2 integration, simulation interfaces and secondary development support.

• Target environment: Research labs, university programs and developer workshops.
• Workflow context: Humanoid development, locomotion research, embodied AI experimentation and secondary development using an openly programmable platform.
• Customer context: Robotics researchers, AI labs and developers seeking a programmable humanoid platform.
• Deployment model: Commercial product positioned as an open research and development platform.
• Commercial maturity: Commercially available developer humanoid with ROS 2 and simulation support.
• Adoption constraints: Designed for research and development rather than industrial deployment.
• Market position: Sits between educational humanoids and industrial systems as an openly programmable research platform.
• Adjacent products: G1, H1, AI Sapiens K0

Audience

Researchers

Workflow

Humanoid development, locomotion research, embodied AI experimentation and secondary development using an openly programmable platform.

Capability

generalist

Deployment environment

Research labs, university programs and developer workshops.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Researchers
• Workflow: Humanoid development, locomotion research, embodied AI experimentation and secondary development using an openly programmable platform.
• Capability: generalist
• Deployment environment: Research labs, university programs and developer workshops.

Specifications

• Dimensions: 118 x 47 x 23 cm
• Height: 118 cm
• Weight: About 30 kg
• Leg Length: 57 cm
• Arm Length: 45 cm
• Dof: 23
• Leg Dof: 6
• Arm Dof: 4 DoF per arm, extensible
• Head Dof: 2
• Waist Dof: 1
• Manipulation: optional gripper; optional dexterous hand

Tags

• Peer Group: Humanoid robot platform, 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

• 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…
• 2026-03-20 - 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.
• 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…
• 2025-09-25 - 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…
• 2025-09-25 - 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…
• 2025-07-21 - 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…
• 2025-03-01 - 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
• 2024-12-02 - Award - Booster T1 wins two IEEE-RAS Humanoids 2024 competitions - Booster T1 completed the free walk competition in 9.58 seconds.
• 2024-08-01 - Product Launch - Booster T1 humanoid debuts at World Robot Conference 2024 - Booster T1 debuted at WRC 2024.

Operations Claims / Customers and deployments

• 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…

Comparable Systems

• LimX Oli - LimX Dynamics - Humanoid Platform
• H2 - Unitree - Humanoid
• G1 - Unitree - Humanoid
• AI Sapiens K0 - ROBOTIS - Humanoid
• H1 - Unitree - Humanoid
• Atom 01 - General Autonomy - Humanoid
• N2 - Noetix Robotics (松延动力) - Humanoid
• MagicBot Z1 - MagicLab - Anthropomorphic Biped