Which Country Is Booster Robotics From?
Booster Robotics is a Chinese company: it was founded in Beijing in 2023, and its founder and CEO is Cheng Hao, who comes from a Tsinghua University background. The company positions the humanoid robot as a development platform; its audience is university labs, research institutes, schools and robot soccer teams. For a broader comparison with other Chinese humanoid makers, see the Chinese humanoid robot companies guide.
What Is the Link Between Booster Robotics and RoboCup?
The RoboCup humanoid soccer leagues are one of the areas where Booster bodies are used. For team building, category choice and software, see the humanoid soccer robot and RoboCup guide.
Product Family: K1 and T2
- Booster K1: 95 cm, about 19.5 kg, 22 degrees of freedom; Geek, Education and Professional editions. An entry-level development platform for schools and education.
- Booster T2: about 140 cm, 31 degrees of freedom, a three-axis waist and 10 kg of dual-arm payload; Education and Professional editions. The flagship for manipulation and research.
Funding and Growth
The company's growth figures rest largely on its own announcements, so the numbers below are given with their source:
- November 2025: more than 700 deliveries and more than 200 customers, according to the company.
- April 2026: a financing round of nearly 1 billion yuan, according to Gasgoo and Booster's announcement.
- October 2026: according to Booster's announcement citing IDC data, the company is among the top three humanoid robot makers worldwide by shipments.
These are not independently audited sales figures, but they show that the company reached a visible share of the research and education market in a short time.
Open-Source Ecosystem
Booster's software approach is open to developers. The main repositories on the BoosterRobotics GitHub account (star counts as of October 2026):
- booster_gym (305 stars): a reinforcement learning framework with training in Isaac Gym, cross-simulation testing in MuJoCo and validation in Webots.
- robocup_demo (153 stars): an autonomous soccer demo for the K1 with YOLOv8-based vision, decision-making and a game controller.
- booster_robotics_sdk (122 stars): a C++ SDK and a Python package installed with pip; Ubuntu 22.04, aarch64 and x86_64, fastDDS, Apache-2.0 licence.
- booster_train (67), booster_deploy (46), booster_assets (39): Isaac Lab tasks, the same policy code in simulation and on the real robot, robot descriptions and example motion data.
For detail, see the Booster SDK development guide and the Booster Gym guide.
Booster Robotics in Turkey
Robotlar.org is the Official Distributor of Booster Robotics in Turkey. The K1 and T2 are invoiced in Turkey and commissioned on site, and a 1-year warranty and authorized service are handled in Turkey. The brand overview and integration scope are on the Official Distributor of Booster Robotics in Turkey page, and the ordering steps are in the Booster distributor in Turkey guide.