Which Country Is Booster Robotics From?
Booster Robotics is a Chinese company: it was founded in Beijing in 2023, and its founder and CEO is Cheng Hao, who comes from a Tsinghua University background. The company positions the humanoid robot as a development platform; its audience is university labs, research institutes, schools and robot soccer teams. For a broader comparison with other Chinese humanoid makers, see the Chinese humanoid robot companies guide.
Product Family: T1, K1, T2
- Booster T1: 118 cm, about 30 kg, 23, 31 or 41 degrees of freedom by edition, 130 N·m peak torque, NVIDIA AGX Orin 200 TOPS. A research and RoboCup large-category platform.
- Booster K1: about 95 cm, 19.5 kg, 22 degrees of freedom, 60 N·m, 48, 117 or 200 TOPS by edition. A school and education platform and the body for RoboCup small and middle categories.
- Booster T2: about 140 cm, 42 kg, 31 degrees of freedom, a three-axis waist, 10 kg dual-arm payload; NVIDIA Jetson Thor T5000 on the Professional edition. Launched in July 2026.
For the price structure of the three models, see Booster robot prices.
What Is the Link Between Booster Robotics and RoboCup?
In December 2024 Booster announced a partnership with the RoboCup Federation, and its bodies quickly became the common hardware of the humanoid soccer leagues.
- RoboCup 2025 (Salvador, Brazil): the AdultSize category was won by Tsinghua Hephaestus on the T1, with CAU Mountain & Sea, also on the T1, second in the final. According to Booster, teams using the K1 also placed in the KidSize category.
- RoboCup 2026: according to Booster's announcement of 9 July 2026, all three humanoid categories (Small, Middle and Large) were won on Booster bodies: Tsinghua Hephaestus on the T1 in Large, B-Human on the K1 in Middle and Invic in Small on what Booster calls the K1 Air. According to the same announcement, 38 of the 59 teams in the tournament used a Booster body.
For team building, category choice and software, see the humanoid soccer robot and RoboCup guide.
Funding and Growth
The company's growth figures rest largely on its own announcements, so the numbers below are given with their source:
- November 2025: more than 700 deliveries and more than 200 customers, according to the company.
- April 2026: a financing round of nearly 1 billion yuan, according to Gasgoo and Booster's announcement.
- October 2026: according to Booster's announcement citing IDC data, the company is among the top three humanoid robot makers worldwide by shipments.
These are not independently audited sales figures, but they show that the company reached a visible share of the research and education market in a short time.
Open-Source Ecosystem
Booster's software approach is open to developers. The main repositories on the BoosterRobotics GitHub account (star counts as of October 2026):
- booster_gym (305 stars): a reinforcement learning framework with training in Isaac Gym, cross-simulation testing in MuJoCo and validation in Webots; ready for the T1 out of the box.
- robocup_demo (153 stars): an autonomous soccer demo for the T1 and K1 with YOLOv8-based vision, decision-making and a game controller.
- booster_robotics_sdk (122 stars): a C++ SDK and a Python package installed with pip; Ubuntu 22.04, aarch64 and x86_64, fastDDS, Apache-2.0 licence.
- booster_train (67), booster_deploy (46), booster_assets (39): Isaac Lab tasks, the same policy code in simulation and on the real robot, robot descriptions and example motion data.
For detail, see the Booster SDK development guide and the Booster Gym guide.
Booster Robotics in Turkey
Robotlar.org is an authorized distributor of Booster Robotics products in Turkey. The T1, K1 and T2 are invoiced in Turkey and commissioned on site, and a 1-year warranty and authorized service are handled in Turkey. The brand overview and integration scope are on the Booster Robotics authorized distributor in Turkey page, and the ordering steps are in the Booster buying guide.