Booster T1 vs K-Scale K-Bot

Booster T1 is a 1.18 m, 30 kg bipedal research humanoid from Booster Robotics with 23 DoF standard (31 grippers, 41 dexterous hands), NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin compute, ROS 2 SDK, and ~2 h walking runtime. Strongest evidence is RoboCup success: 2025 AdultSize champion and 2026 Large division title. It is purchasable through resellers (~$29,800-$50,925) but Booster publishes no MSRP; payload is only ~0.5 kg per arm, base has no hands, and many specs (walking speed, full sensor list) are not officially published. It is a research/education platform, now superseded by T2/K1 on Booster's site

K-Scale K-Bot was an open-source humanoid robot from K-Scale Labs (Palo Alto) with reported specs of 1.4 m height, 34 kg weight, 10 kg payload, 4-hour battery life, modular compute, swappable end effectors, and a starting price of $10,999. It targeted developers with an open-source RL library and sim2real pipeline. The company shipped a small number of Founder's Edition units and demonstrated low-latency teleoperation, but canceled all pre-orders and refunded deposits in November 2025 after failing to raise funding, then open-sourced hardware (CERN-OHL-S-2.0) and software (MIT). No autonomous operation, DoF, walking speed, or independent benchmarks were found