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Booster Robotics T1
The RoboCup champion's robot — the cheapest way into a real humanoid.
We haven't tested this machine hands-on, so this profile carries no rating — every fact below traces to the sources at the end, and the judgments are clearly ours. Full methodology on the Robot Tracker.
At a glance
- Status
- ShippingReal units delivered to paying customers
- Can you buy it?
- Yes
- Price
- From ~$9,000 (Basic) to ~$47,700 (Standard, US tariff-inclusive)
- Form factor
- Bipedal humanoid (1.2 m, compact)
- AI brain
- NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin (200 TOPS); ROS2, open framework
- Maker
- Booster Robotics (China)
- Backing
- Private (Beijing startup)
The Booster T1 is what a humanoid looks like when it's engineered to be crashed: a 1.2-meter, ~30 kg robot built for the punishment of robot soccer, where it won the 2025 RoboCup 'AdultSize' championship and became the platform of choice for 50+ university teams and research institutes. That heritage means the things that matter to developers — durability, quick joint swaps, full ROS2 support, simulation integration — instead of demo-reel spectacle.
Pricing spans a wide range: distributor listings start around $9,000 for the Basic edition, while the Standard (Intel i7 + Jetson AGX Orin, 200 TOPS) lists near $47,700 in the US with tariffs included. That makes the T1 both the cheapest entry into real humanoid ownership and a case study in how tariffs distort this market. As ever in this class: it's a development platform — brilliant for labs and education, useless for laundry.
T1 in pictures
Images are the manufacturers' own press and product photography, shown here for identification and review, and credited to the rights holder.
What's real
- • The cheapest real humanoid you can order (Basic editions from ~$9,000 via distributors)
- • Proven durable in the most punishing benchmark that exists — competitive robot soccer (2025 RoboCup champion platform, 50+ teams)
- • Serious developer stack: Jetson AGX Orin, ROS2, Isaac Sim support, open interfaces
Know before you watch (or buy)
- • Small and light (1.2 m, ~30 kg): a research and education machine, not a labor robot
- • US pricing balloons with tariffs — the same robot spans ~$9k to ~$48k depending on edition and route
- • Developer platform caveat as always: capability is what you program
The evidence
Shipping via distributors; the 2025 RoboCup Soccer 'AdultSize' championship platform, used by 50+ robotics teams and institutes worldwide.
Sources: RobotShop · Booster Robotics · Robotopian
What changed on T1's own pages
Nothing yet. We re-crawl the maker's own price and product pages and record anything that moves — a price, a ship date, a caveat appearing or disappearing. We've been watching since 2026-07-12and this maker hasn't changed those pages since.
We report what changed and when, with the page it changed on. We don't speculate about why.
Bottom line
If you want to own and program a humanoid on the smallest realistic budget — or equip a lab or classroom — the T1 is the value pick of the buyable class. The RoboCup pedigree is worth more than any spec sheet: these robots are selected by people who break robots for sport.
FAQ
How much does a Booster T1 cost?
It ranges widely by edition and region: distributor listings start around $9,000 for the T1 Basic, while the T1 Standard (with Intel i7 + NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin) lists at about $47,700 in the US including tariffs. It's a 1.2 m developer humanoid used by 50+ RoboCup teams and research institutes — not a household robot.