Know the T1 you are looking at
The manual checked on October 26, 2026 describes a T1 standing 1.18 metres tall and weighing about 30 kg, with 23 degrees of freedom. It lists a walking speed of 1 metre per second and two hours of battery life, without specifying the workload here. These are Booster’s figures for the documented configuration.4
Basic and Standard divide the computing work differently. Basic uses a Jetson AGX Orin 32GB board, listed at 200 TOPS, for movement and perception. Standard separates Intel i7 motion control from its AGX Orin 32GB perception board. Earlier sales material described customized arms and hands, so compare the exact controller and hardware in each offer.47
Booster’s manual describes agents for gestures, conversation, football, teaching and dance. It specifically excludes soccer, teaching and dance from the configuration it calls the “7-DoF version”. Ask for a demonstration with the exact configuration and software version you are considering, especially if football or motion teaching is the reason for buying.3
Ownership starts with the operating routine
Starting T1 involves more than putting it on the floor. Booster's guide uses a rest for power-up, a removable battery, stationary initialization and a PREP mode before walking. Its warnings say to clear obstacles, avoid lifting it in WALK mode and keep hands away from moving parts. An emergency stop also requires a restart before continuing.65
For a school project, ask the instructor to demonstrate the whole session: preparation, movement, a safe stop and packing away. That helps reveal how much adult time and usable space the activity needs. A short performance on a stage cannot answer those practical questions for your classroom or home.65
The depth camera and microphones create another useful question before use around a family: which functions run on the robot, which send data elsewhere, and who can access recordings or logs? Request the terms for the installed applications and accounts. The presence of onboard computing alone is not an answer about privacy.4
Buying an earlier platform
T1 debuted in August 2024. In the catalogue checked on October 26, 2026, Booster foregrounded K1 and T2 while continuing to provide T1 manuals. A current direct-order T1 offer was not established. Before accepting a seller’s offer, obtain the exact package, condition, software access, spare-parts arrangements and warranty in writing.1237
Choose T1 only after the intended project is clear enough to demonstrate. For a football team, that might mean showing how students change ball-tracking behaviour and recover from a fall. For someone wanting chores done, the relevant demonstration is the chore itself. Keeping the task specific makes an impressive robot easier to evaluate.35
