Buying guide
Booster T1 vs MagicBot Z1 in 2026
Comparing 2 humanoid robots across availability, pricing, capabilities, and verified deployments. Current as of 2026.
Key differences
- Booster T1 has more verified real-world deployments (2 vs 0).
- Booster T1 is at the research stage; MagicBot Z1 at the pilot stage.
| Attribute | ||
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Booster Robotics | MagicLab |
| Form factor | humanoid | humanoid |
| Maturity | research | pilot |
| Autonomy | — | — |
| Availability | announced-no-dateannounced | internal-onlyenterprise |
| Price | no price disclosed (not announced) | no price disclosed (not announced) |
| Capability claims | — | — |
| Brain | — | — |
| Verified deployments | 2China Agricultural University, Tsinghua University | 0 |
| Privacy practices | — | — |
| Sources on file | 7 | 6 |
Editorial summaries
Booster T1
The Booster T1, from China's Booster Robotics, is a research and developer humanoid prominent in the wave of Chinese humanoids shown at CES 2026. There is no verified consumer price or delivery date on record in DEPLOY's registry. DEPLOY classifies its maturity as research and applies verified-vs-claimed discipline: commercial-ramping marketing and demonstrations are common across this cohort, but third-party verified deployment is the bar, and it is not yet met here.
MagicBot Z1
MagicLab's MagicBot Z1 (unveiled July 8, 2025 in Beijing) is a roughly 140-centimeter, 40-kilogram humanoid (24-to-49 degrees of freedom, in-house actuators) marketed for agile motion via side-flip and martial-arts demonstrations; the MagicBot Gen1 has appeared in factory multi-robot demos. DEPLOY records it at pilot maturity with no verified deployments. The verified-vs-claimed point is central here: the side-flip and martial-arts clips are choreographed or teleoperated demonstrations, not autonomous task performance, and the factory demos are demonstrations, not verified at-scale deployment. As a pilot platform it has no consumer price.
Common questions
- What is the difference between Booster T1 and MagicBot Z1?
- Booster T1 and MagicBot Z1 are both humanoid robots on the DEPLOY registry. They differ in maker, maturity, price, verified deployments, and how much of their autonomy is independently verified. See the table above for the full head-to-head; each figure is sourced.
- Which has more verified deployments, Booster T1 or MagicBot Z1?
- Booster T1 has more verified deployments (2) on the DEPLOY registry than MagicBot Z1 (0). DEPLOY counts a deployment only when confirmed at a named site with a primary source.
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