The World Humanoid Robot Games close today — the football pitch ran on a robot you can actually order
The 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games close today in Beijing, and the two halves of the event tell opposite stories about what’s actually for sale. The sprint and standing-jump records — sub-9.4-second 100 meters, a 2.88 m standing jump — were set by one-off research builds with no price tag and no path to your shopping cart. The football pitch was different: according to Booster Robotics, 56 of the event’s teams, 92% of everyone who fielded a team, competed on Booster hardware, mostly the T1 and its newly launched sibling, the T2.
That’s a rare case of a competition being dominated by catalog equipment rather than lab prototypes, and it lines up with what we track: the T1 has been a for-sale, open-SDK developer platform since 2024, not a one-event demo unit.
The T2 itself is new. Booster launched it in July with a heavier compute budget — up to 2,070 TFLOPS on the Thor-based Pro trim — 31 degrees of freedom, a 10 kg dual-arm payload and roughly 2 hours of runtime. Booster’s own site doesn’t post a price and routes buyers to a quote form, but an authorized EU distributor lists the base Professional configuration from €22,500 excluding VAT (about $26,200) — €27,060 with VAT included (about $31,500) — with shipping starting in September. That puts the T2 well above the T1’s roughly $22,000–51,000 range, in line with its jump in compute and payload.
We’re adding the T2 to the index as a preorder at that distributor price, since it’s the only public number attached to the model; treat it as a floor, not a firm quote for every configuration, until Booster itself lists retail pricing.
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