The Booster T1 is a compact, open humanoid robot from Booster Robotics, a Chinese company targeting developers, researchers, and educators. The T1 is notably oriented toward sport and dynamic motion — it has been demonstrated playing humanoid soccer (a popular research and competition domain) and performing athletic, martial-arts-style maneuvers, and it is designed to withstand falls. Booster pairs the hardware with a developer SDK to support custom application development.
Price Range
A robotics aggregator lists an estimate around $75,000 for the Booster T1. Booster has positioned the T1 as a developer-focused platform, and the company has marketed lower price points for developer/sport configurations in some materials — so this figure should be treated as indicative only, and current pricing verified directly with Booster Robotics.
| Basis | Figure |
|---|---|
| Aggregator estimate | ~$75,000 (indicative only — verify with Booster) |
| Positioning | Developer / research / education / robot-sport platform |
| Availability | Prototype / developer platform |
Full Specifications
| Spec | Value (reported) |
|---|---|
| Height | ~1.18 m |
| Weight | ~30 kg |
| Degrees of freedom | ~23 |
| Walking speed | ~3.5 km/h |
| Payload | ~5 kg |
| Runtime | ~1.5 hours |
| Software | Robust developer SDK; Bluetooth mobile-app control; supports secondary development |
| Design focus | Lightweight, flexible, fall-durable; athletic/dynamic motion (sports, martial-arts-style moves, prone-to-standing recovery) |
Model Breakdown
The Booster T1 is offered as a single compact developer platform. Booster positions it as an open, customizable robot for the developer community — equally suited to educational projects, robotics research, and humanoid-sport competition.
Buyer's Guide: What to Know
The T1 is a developer and robot-sport platform. Its strengths — light weight, fall durability, dynamic motion, an open SDK — suit research labs, universities, and humanoid soccer/sport competition, not industrial labor.
Fall durability is a genuine design goal. A robot built to survive falls is well-suited to dynamic experimentation and competition.
The SDK is central. Booster's developer kit enables custom applications — the T1's value is largely in what developers build on it.
Verify the price. The ~$75k aggregator figure should be confirmed with Booster, since the company has marketed developer/sport configurations at varying price points.
T1 vs Similar Robots
- T1 vs AgiBot Lingxi X1: Both are compact developer humanoids; the X1 emphasizes open-source software, the T1 emphasizes athletic/sport capability and fall durability.
- T1 vs EngineAI PM01: Both are compact, dynamic, developer-focused Chinese humanoids demonstrated doing athletic moves.
- T1 vs Unitree R1: Both are small, affordable-ish, sport-oriented developer robots built for dynamic motion.
Source: Booster Robotics
