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Booster K1 is a compact bipedal development and education platform rather than a downsized industrial-worker claim. Booster lists an approximately 95 cm, 19.5 kg body with 22 total degrees of freedom, stereo depth sensing, an IMU, audio hardware, and three compute configurations.
The configurations matter. Booster states 30 minutes of walking at 0.4 m/s for its 2 Ah version and 80 minutes at the same test speed for the 5 Ah versions; it also lists 48 TOPS dense, 117 TOPS, or 200 TOPS compute depending on configuration. HumanoidRoster does not collapse those runtime or compute values into one universal K1 specification.
Beyond the product page, Booster reports that named independent teams used K1 and K1 Air robots in RoboCup 2026. That is useful K1-family adoption context, but the model mapping comes from a company-issued release and does not establish sales or deliveries. The teams' perception, behavior, and soccer software also remain distinct from Booster-authored general-purpose autonomy.
Reality check
Booster publishes detailed K1 specifications, configuration-specific runtime and compute data, and a starting price. Booster also reports that named independent teams used K1-family hardware in RoboCup competition, but the cited results release is company-issued and includes both K1 and K1 Air. Customer deliveries, uptime, durability, safety, and general-purpose autonomy are not independently documented.
- Booster lists K1 as an approximately 95 cm, 19.5 kg bipedal embodied-development platform with 22 DoF
- The official page lists three configurations with 48 TOPS dense, 117 TOPS, or 200 TOPS compute and a starting price of US$5,999
- Booster lists stereo depth sensing, a nine-axis IMU, six microphones, a speaker, and 60 N·m peak joint torque
- The official page states 30 minutes of walking at 0.4 m/s for the 2 Ah configuration and 80 minutes at 0.4 m/s for the 5 Ah configurations
- Booster reports that B-Human, HTWK Robots, Rhoban, Invic, and GeoHBots used K1 or K1 Air hardware in RoboCup 2026 competitions
- The US$5,999 figure is a manufacturer-listed starting price, not a guarantee that every configuration is immediately deliverable at that price
- Runtime, torque, durability, and compute figures are manufacturer specifications rather than independent benchmarks
- Booster-reported RoboCup results provide K1-family context, not proof of sales, Booster-authored general-purpose autonomy, or industrial readiness
