Booster Robotics
Booster Robotics (加速进化) is a Beijing startup, founded in June 2023 by former members of Tsinghua's Hephaestus RoboCup team. It builds bipedal humanoid development platforms for research and education: the 95 cm K1 and the 1.4 m T2, which replaces the 1.18 m T1. It also makes the Booster Studio IDE and an Agent Store. Teams using its robots dominate RoboCup and World Humanoid Robot Games soccer. The company reports more than 700 deliveries to over 200 customers (Nov 2025), with more than half shipped abroad, and positive monthly operating cash flow since Dec 2025.
5 humanoid models · 8 deployments on file · researched 2026-11-08
- Headquarters
- Beijing, China
- Founded
- 2023
- Ownership
- Private
- Website
- booster.tech
- Focus
- research, education, entertainment
- Leadership
- Cheng Hao (程昊) Founder and CEO ↗
- Last round
- unnamed round (company: 'nearly $150 million'; Chinese release: 近十亿元, nearly CNY 1 billion) · 2026-04 · $150M
- Investors
- Beijing High-Tech Industries Investment Fund, Jingguosheng Fund, Huakong Fund, Legend Star, Guohai Innovation Capital, BOCOM Capital, IDG Capital, E-Town Capital, Shenzhen Capital Group (SCGC), Jinding Capital, Source Code Capital, Innoangel Fund, CMBC International, Bian Era Technology, Zhongguancun Science City, iCANX Fund, Beijing Robotics Industry Development Investment Fund, Beijing Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund, Broad Vision Funds
- Production
- 700 shipped by 2025-11 · Company: 'surpassed 700 humanoid robot deliveries worldwide, serving more than 200 customers', with more than half delivered internationally. Gasgoo, Apr 2026: K1 alone 'has shipped over 1,000 units… more than 20 countries and 400 clients', and Q1 2026 shipments rose 500% year on year. ↗
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Humanoids
Each model as the maker has shown it. Specs are maker-stated; a dash means no source states the figure.
| Model | Status | Announced | Height | Weight | DoF | Payload | Runtime | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Booster T2 ↗Flagship development platform. Professional edition runs on NVIDIA Jetson Thor T5000 (2,070 TFLOPS); Education edition 375 TOPS. 7-DoF arms; standard, gripper or dexterous-hand end effectors. Spec: 3 m/s walking (= 10.8 km/h), 10 kg maximum dual-arm payload (posture-dependent), 2 h continuous walking. | Commercial | 2026-07 | 140 cm | 42 kg | 31 | 10 kg | 2 h | not published by Booster (sales by inquiry); reseller prices vary widely |
| Booster K1 ↗Entry-level development platform in Geek, Education and Professional editions (48, 117 and 200 TOPS). Walks at 2 m/s (= 7.2 km/h). Runtime is 1 h 10 min on the 5 Ah battery (Education/Professional) and 20 min on the 2 Ah Geek edition. Magnetic charging while in use; Python/C++ SDK; six built-in Agents (soccer, dance, lion dance, chat). | Commercial | 2025-10 | 95 cm | 19.5 kg | 22 | — | 1.17 h | limited-time launch price from CNY 29,900 (36Kr Japan: about JPY 660,000); company site lists no price |
| Booster T1 ↗Debuted at WRC 2024; 'available now' Oct 2024. NVIDIA AGX Orin (200 TOPS). 23 DoF standard, 31 with grippers, 41 with dexterous hands. Battery: 2 h walking, 4 h standing. It was the standard RoboCup AdultSize platform but is no longer in the booster.tech Robots menu (T2, K1 only) as of 2026-11. | Commercial | 2024-08 | 118 cm | 30 kg | 23 | — | 2 h | not published by Booster; European reseller Generation Robots lists 'price on request' plus EUR figures for a used unit |
| Booster K1 Air ↗Small-size variant; RoboCup 2026 Small division winners used it. No spec page found. | Commercial | — | — | — | — | — | — | not published |
| BR002 ↗Early prototype unveiled 24 Apr 2024, shown doing turning and spinning get-ups; predecessor of T1. | Prototype | 2024-04 | — | — | — | — | — | not published |
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Deployments
Named customers, what the robots do there, and how far it has gone.
| Customer | What | When | Stage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tsinghua University, Department of Automation ↗ | Received 16 K1 and 6 T2 humanoids for lab teaching, research and student projects at the launch of the Tsinghua–Booster joint humanoid research center | 2026-10 | In service |
| Tsinghua Hephaestus (RoboCup team) ↗ | Won RoboCup 2025 AdultSize with Booster T1, defended the Large-division title at RoboCup 2026 with T1, and won gold with T2 at the 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games 5v5 | 2025 | In service |
| B-Human (Germany) ↗ | RoboCup 2026 HSL Middle Division champion using Booster K1 | 2026-07 | In service |
| HTWK (Leipzig) ↗ | Won RoboCup 2025 KidSize with K1; RoboCup 2026 Middle Division runner-up with K1 | 2025-07 | In service |
| China Agricultural University (Mountain & Sea team) ↗ | Runner-up in RoboCup 2025 AdultSize using Booster T1 | 2025-07 | In service |
| Shangyicheng Group ↗ | Co-hosted the 2025 RoBoLeague 3v3 AI robot soccer finals in Beijing; every team used the Booster T1 | 2025-06 | In service |
| Inaugural secondary-school humanoid robot soccer tournament (Haidian, Beijing) ↗ | K1 used as the platform for instruction, practice and competition; Booster ran the curriculum, training and technical operations | 2026-02 | In service |
| RoboCup 2026 (38 teams) ↗ | 38 teams competed on Booster robots and won 3 gold, 2 silver and 3 bronze, sweeping every bipedal humanoid division | 2026-07 | In service |
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Dated facts
Milestones, orders, factories and filings, newest first.
- 2026-09Launched the K1 Explorer edition (Booster K1 探索版), aimed at home science exploration. ↗
- 2026-0880 Booster T2 robots spelled out 'BEIJING' at the opening ceremony of the 2026 robot games (company headline: 80 台加速进化 T2 在2026年运动会开幕式上拼出 'BEIJING'). ↗
- 2026-07Launched the Booster Studio embodied-AI IDE (June 30), then the T2 flagship at WAIC (July 10). ↗
- 2026-04Q1 2026 shipments up 500% year on year, matching the first eight months of 2025. New orders in Jan–Feb up more than 800%, taking the backlog 'into the hundreds of millions of yuan'. ↗
- 2026-04Raised nearly $150M, jointly led by the Beijing High-Tech Industries Investment Fund, Jingguosheng Fund and Huakong Fund. ↗
- 2026-04A Booster biped finished the Yizhuang (Beijing) half marathon in 1 h 53 min. ↗
- 2025-12Achieved positive monthly operating cash flow for the first time; the company said its CES 2026 booth robots sold out. ↗
- 2025-11IDG Capital led a round of more than CNY 100 million (36Kr Japan: '1億元余り'), with E-Town Capital participating. At launch, K1 dealer orders had already passed 1,000 units. ↗
- 2025-06Series A led by Shenzhen Capital Group, with Jinding Capital co-investing; Series A+ followed in July 2025, led by the Beijing Robotics Industry Development and Beijing AI Industry investment funds. ↗
- 2024-12The RoboCup Federation named Booster Robotics an official partner. ↗
- 2024-09Pre-A round of 'tens of millions of dollars' from Bian Era Technology, CMBC International, Zhongguancun Science City and iCANX Fund, with Innoangel Fund following on. ↗
- 2023-06Booster Robotics Technology Co., Ltd. was established in June 2023 in Haidian District, Beijing. Its core team came from the Tsinghua Robot Control Lab and the Tsinghua Hephaestus RoboCup team. ↗
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Not yet confirmed
Claims seen in only one non-official place. Shown so they can be checked, not as findings.
- K1 'launch price of $4,999' / '$5,000': third-party blogs only (robohorizon-hugo.pages.dev, en.bb.lv), seen in search results only
- Total 2025 funding of about CNY 500 million: 36Kr Japan presents it as an estimate ('とみられる')
- T2 prices of US$29,900–45,000 / ~EUR 27,000: reseller listings only (maverickdrone, grabarobot, asiasatellite), seen in search results only
- Prof. Zhao Mingguo is often linked to Booster. DoNews names him director of the Tsinghua–Booster joint research center, a Tsinghua role; no company role confirmed
- Booster Science Robotics paper (Aug 2026): company headline and DoNews say a Tsinghua team published soccer-skill research on Booster's robot platform; paper not checked
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Sources
Retrieved 2026-11-08.
- About Us | Booster Robotics — Booster Robotics
- Booster K1 — Booster Robotics
- Booster T2 — Booster Robotics
- RoboCup — Booster Robotics
- News Center — Booster Robotics
- 新闻中心 — Booster Robotics (加速进化)
- Booster T1 humanoid robot — Generation Robots
- Booster Roboticsが20億円超を追加調達ーー60万円台の小型ヒューマノイド、受注1000台突破 — 36Kr Japan
- Embodied AI Company Booster Robotics Completes Nearly 1 Billion Yuan Financing — Gasgoo
- 2070 TFLOPS 算力加持，加速进化发布新一代具身开发旗舰平台 Booster — 中华网 (tech.china.com)
- 清华大学（自动化系）-加速进化人形机器人 联合研究中心揭牌仪式举行 — DoNews