Booster Robotics · education humanoid
K1
A 95 cm, 19.5 kg kid-size humanoid for schools and robot soccer, with 30-80 minutes of battery depending on version.
- Price
- $14,999Cheaper than 66%
- Height
- 95 cmTaller than 7%
- Weight
- 19.5 kgHeavier than 9%
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- 1.4 km/hFaster than 10%
- Battery
- 1.3 hRuns longer than 8%
Official maker page, not an affiliate link. Checked 2026-10-10.
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Why it matters
Official KidSize RoboCup platform.
Real-world use
About 400 clients including RoboCup teams (company).
Timeline
- First shown
- 2025
- Released
- 2025
Maker
Booster RoboticsCompany · founded 2023 · Beijing, ChinaSeries A about 500 million yuan (mid-2025); Series A+ over 100 million yuan (Jul 2025, Beijing robot and AI funds); nearly 1 billion yuan round…
How it stacks up
Against other humanoids that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
K1 is taller than 7% of the 305 other humanoids that publish a height. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
K1 is heavier than 9% of the 277 other humanoids that publish a weight. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
K1 is faster than 10% of the 122 other humanoids that publish a speed. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
K1 has more joints than 17% of the 236 other humanoids that publish a joints. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
K1 runs longer than 8% of the 119 other humanoids that publish a battery. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
K1 costs less than 66% of the 85 other humanoids that publish a price. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: payload.
What it has been shown doing
1 of 14 skills we track, each from a public video or report. Demos can be staged or remote-controlled; we say so when the source does.
- Runlaunch videos show K1 running and dancing · Oct 2025 · humanoidsdaily.com
Not shown yet:SortAssembleFoldKitchenToolsFineStairsTerrainGet upJumpCarryOn siteAutonomous
Public attention
How much public attention K1 gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 4 news stories from reputable press listed on this page
Measures how much people read and write about a robot, not how good it is. Measured 2026-10-14; same method for every robot. How it is measured
What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Hands
- unknown
- Movement
- Walks on legs · 22 joints
- Chip
- QCS8550 (Qualcomm)Entry Geek version uses a Qualcomm QCS8550 rated at 48 TOPS.Jetson Orin NX (NVIDIA)Edu version uses a Jetson Orin NX 8 GB (117 TOPS).Jetson AGX Orin (NVIDIA)Pro version uses a Jetson AGX Orin 32 GB (200 TOPS).
- Actuators & motors
- 22 DoF (legs 6 x 2, arms 4 x 2, head 2); torque-controlled joints with dual encoders; max knee torque 60 Nm.
- Sensors & vision
- Stereo 3D camera, 9-axis IMU, microphone array, speaker, tactile sensors.
- Compute
- Three tiers: Qualcomm QCS8550 (48 TOPS, Geek), NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 8 GB (117 TOPS, Edu), NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin 32 GB (200 TOPS, Pro).
- Battery & power
- 2 Ah (Geek) or 5 Ah (Edu/Pro); about 30 to 80 minutes; charges in under 1 hour.
- AI & software
- Python, ROS and ROS 2 SDK and API.
- Other details
- Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.2, Gigabit Ethernet; marketed as 'RoboCup 2025 Champion Edition'; 95 cm, 19.5 kg.
Named suppliers:NVIDIAROS (Open Robotics)Qualcomm
Lineage
Every Booster Robotics humanoid in order.
Watch K1
Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- $14,999$14,999 MSRP on the RoboCup program page ($9,999 team price); other reports cite $5,900-5,999 for a basic version.
- How to get one
- Maker's website
- Sold or delivered
- Over 1,000 K1 shipped to date (company, April 2026).
- Where it is sold or used
- More than 20 countries (company).
- Customers and pilots
- About 400 clients including RoboCup teams (company).
Where it is sold and supported
What Booster Robotics publishes about where you can get K1 and who looks after it.
- How to get it
- Three editions (Geek, Education, Professional) bought through the online store on the maker's site
- Support
- Warranty 3 months (Geek) or 1 year (Education, Professional); Support and Repair page and service terms on the maker's site
From booster.tech, checked October 12, 2026. The maker's pages list no sales regions. Simbeing does not sell robots: buy from the maker's own page.
For builders
Can you program K1? What Booster Robotics publishes.
Public documentation, an SDK or open-source code. No developer kit price published; the three K1 editions differ in compute and battery.
- How
- Public developer guide with Python and C++ SDKs, a ROS 2 SDK, on-robot agent framework, K1 training and deployment code (MuJoCo, Webots), and robot models
- Developer pages
- github.com
From docs.booster.tech, checked October 12, 2026. This describes what the maker publishes, not what the robot can do.
News
The latest 4, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- Booster robots used by 38 of 59 RoboCup 2026 teams
Booster says its robots took all RoboCup 2026 championship titles.
Booster Robotics - Booster robot finishes half marathon in 1:53
Booster posted the result from the 2026 Beijing humanoid half marathon.
Booster Robotics - Booster raises nearly 1 billion yuan
Q1 2026 shipments rose 500% year on year; K1 passed 1,000 units in 20+ countries (company).
Gasgoo - Booster K1 and T1 to be sold in Japan by Switch Science
Booster Robotics demonstrated its small T1 and K1 humanoids at iREX 2025; Switch Science is to sell them in Japan for a price in the mid-¥2 million range.
MONOist (ITmedia)
Side by side with its peers
Picked by the same rules for every humanoid: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. How we choose
| Measure | K1Booster Robotics |  FF Master MiniFaraday FutureSame job: entertainment · Both walk · Both on sale or in pilots · Similar size · Similar price |  Mini Pi+ (π+)HighTorque Robotics (高擎机电)Same job: entertainment · Both walk · Both on sale or in pilots · Similar size |  Olaf (free-roaming robotic character)Walt Disney Imagineering / Disney ResearchSame job: entertainment · Both walk · Both on sale or in pilots · Similar size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2025 | 2026-06-17 | 2025 | 2025-11-24 |
| Status | Commercial | Commercial | Commercial | Pilot use |
| Height | 95 cm | 95 cm | 76 cm | 89 cm |
| Weight | 19.5 kg | 19.5 kg | 15 kg | 14.9 kg |
| Joints | 22 | — | 27 | 25 |
| Speed | 1.4 km/h | — | — | — |
| Payload | — | — | — | — |
| Battery | 1.3 h | — | 2 h | — |
| Price | $14,999 | $9,990 | — | — |
Sources
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