Booster Robotics brings RoboCup champs to Vegas

At CES, Booster Robotics is bringing something that looks straight out of sci-fi but is very much real and very much ready to hit the ground running (literally).

The company is hosting hands-on media demos of two humanoid robotics platforms — the Booster T1 and Booster K1 — both designed as development tools for embodied AI, robotics research and competition environments.

These aren’t concept robots meant to dance for a demo reel. They’re proven, working platforms built for people who want to teach, train or experiment with humanoid systems.

The Booster T1 is the heavyweight of the pair. Booster touts it as a full-scale humanoid platform — while it is, indeed, the championship-winning model from the 2025 RoboCup Soccer “AdultSize” category, it is slightly under four feet tall (118 centimeters, to be exact).

The T1 features high onboard computing power by way of an NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin, robust locomotion, and optional dexterous hands for manipulation tasks. With support for ROS2 (the industry standard workflow in robotics research), onboard AI perception, and simulation-driven development, T1 is aimed at universities, research labs, and teams working on embodied intelligence and real-world interaction.

The Booster K1 is a smaller, lighter variant. With a $5,999 price tag, Booster is positioning the K1 as an attainable option for schools and smaller research teams. But, Booster stressed, attainable doesn’t mean incapable — the K1’s 38-inch-tall frame has oomph and, like its big brother, it’s a 2025 RoboCup champion (it competed in the “KidSize” category).

Booster’s pre-show hype reel is below: