education
University and competition platform
Owner verifiedVerified July 2026
- Control mode
- Autonomous
- Human intervention
- Developer programmed
Research record R-013Commercially available
Booster T1
By Booster Robotics · China · announced October 2024
The sturdy little biped that became the standard body of RoboCup's humanoid soccer leagues.
Broader research scope
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Research summary
What the record says.
Booster Robotics' T1 is a 1.18 meter, 30 kilogram humanoid built to survive exactly the abuse student developers deliver: falls, collisions and soccer. It has become the de facto standard platform in RoboCup humanoid leagues and ships to university labs worldwide, with third-party pricing around $22,000.
The T1's pitch is durability and serviceability rather than acrobatics: it gets up quickly, takes impacts, and exposes a full SDK. Booster, founded by former Tsinghua RoboCup competitors, updates the platform against the rhythm of the academic and competition calendar.
Delivery evidence
Announcement is not arrival.
Owner verified
Units shipped to university labs and RoboCup teams; used in competition play
Capability ledger
What has actually been shown?
2 material claims are separated by evidence setting and human involvement. The strongest recorded signal is Owner verified; it does not automatically transfer to every row.
entertainment
RoboCup soccer matches
Real-world demoVerified July 2026
- Control mode
- Autonomous
- Human intervention
- None during play
Hardware record.
- Height
- 118 cm
- Weight
- 30 kg
- Locomotion
- Bipedal; robust fall recovery, soccer play
- Payload
- Light loads
- Runtime
- About 1-2 hours by use
- Charging
- Swappable battery
- Top speed
- Jogging pace
- Degrees of freedom
- 23
- Hands
- Simple grippers
- Face / expression
- Sensor visor
- Sensors
- Stereo cameras, IMU
Software record.
- AI platform
- Booster SDK; ROS support; RoboCup software ecosystem
- Voice
- Developer configured
- Languages
- Developer configured
- Visual recognition
- Developer configured (ball and player tracking common)
- Memory
- Developer configured
- Processing
- Onboard compute
- Autonomous abilities
- Autonomous soccer play as programmed by teams
- Teleoperation
- Supported
- Software updates
- Firmware
- Developer access
- Open SDK
Who can see, hear, or take control?
- Recording storage
- Owner controlled
- Remote operation possible
- Yes
- Teleoperation disclosure
- Owner is the operator
- Camera / microphone controls
- Owner controlled
- Data deletion
- Owner controlled
- Account required
- No
- Emergency stop
- Remote e-stop
- Children and pets
- Small and light; supervision still required
- Security updates
- Firmware updates
Open questions
Disputed or unverified.
- Official pricing is not published; the $22,000 figure is from aggregator databases
Lifecycle record
Status history.
- Public demonstration
T1 introduced
- Commercially available
Widespread RoboCup adoption
Source register
2 linked sources.
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