Chinese Company Unveils Advanced T2 Humanoid Robot with Massive Computing Power

Chinese robotics firm Booster Robotics has launched the T2, a new humanoid robot platform designed for researchers and developers in embodied artificial intelligence. The T2 is a significant upgrade over its predecessor, the T1, featuring a 1.4-meter height and weighing approximately 42 kilograms, representing increases of 19% in height and 40% in weight. It offers 31 degrees of freedom and can carry up to 10 kilograms with its two arms. Its joints deliver a peak torque of 140 newton-meters, enabling complex industrial tasks.

At the core of the T2 is NVIDIA's Jetson Thor T5000 chip, capable of over 2,000 trillion operations per second, making it one of the highest computationally capable humanoid robots in its category. The robot is equipped with advanced sensors, including binocular cameras, optional wrist cameras, and LiDAR sensors, allowing precise environmental perception.

Booster Robotics emphasizes that the T2 is intended as a practical tool to bridge robotics from laboratory demonstrations to real-world applications, targeting industries such as manufacturing, logistics, and advanced research. Founded in June 2023 by Cheng Hao, a former engineer at ByteDance and Amazon and Tsinghua University graduate, the company recently raised around $140 million and is rapidly expanding with a development team from leading Chinese robotics labs.

The T2 enters a highly competitive Chinese market where many companies are striving to lead in humanoid robotics as part of a broad national strategy. Alongside the T2, Booster offers a smaller K1 model starting at about $5,999. While the T2's price has not been disclosed, it is expected to be close to the T1's launch price of approximately $30,000.