Booster T1 vs Tiangong

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 It is a research/education platform, now superseded by T2/K1 on Booster's site

Tiangong is the first full-size biped from the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center (X-Humanoid), publicly shown on 2024-04-27 as an open, research-oriented platform: 163 cm, 43 kg, fully electric, with a 48 V/15 Ah pack, 3D vision sensors, a high-precision IMU, six-axis force sensors and a claimed 550 trillion operations per second of onboard compute; a directory records 20 total DoF for the launch configuration. The public evidence is essentially locomotion — a claimed stable 6 km/h run and slope/stair traversal described as 'blind' — with no manipulation (the launch robot is reported to lack human-like hands), no task autonomy, no endurance or reliability data and no human-interaction evidence. It is research-only and not for sale, and has been superseded by later Tiangong variants (1.1 PRO, 1.2 MAX, Walker, Ultra, Omni, 2.0, 3.0) whose records must not be credited to this robot