Pepper vs Booster T2

Pepper is Aldebaran/SoftBank's 120 cm wheeled social humanoid with 19 DOF, 28 kg, 12 h listed runtime, 20 DC motors, Intel Atom E3845, HD cameras, 3D sensor, sonars, touch sensors, and a chest tablet. RobotLAB lists it from $32,000, but production reportedly stopped in 2020 or 2021 and Maxvision acquired Aldebaran assets in 2025. Official docs describe default Autonomous Life reacting to sounds, movement and touch; media relay Aldebaran's claim of about 17,000 Pepper humanoids sold. Manipulation, payload, autonomy, and reliability lack independent evidence; video demos are titles only

Booster T2 is a purchasable 1.4 m, ~42 kg bipedal humanoid development platform from Booster Robotics, with 31 body DoF, 10 kg dual-arm payload, 140 Nm peak torque, 2 hours walking runtime, 48 V 10 Ah battery, and optional Jetson Thor T5000 2,070 TFLOPS compute. Official sources claim 3 m/s walking while resellers and press claim 2 m/s. A media-described demo video shows walking, fall recovery, and flips, but teleoperation status is not disclosed. The robot is sold by Generation Robots from €22,500 excl VAT and by US resellers from US$32,999; no named customer deployment or independent autonomy verification was found