Buying guide
Booster T1 vs Unitree G1 in 2026
Comparing 2 humanoid robots across availability, pricing, capabilities, and verified deployments. Current as of 2026.
| Attribute | ||
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Booster Robotics | Unitree Robotics |
| Form factor | humanoid | humanoid |
| Maturity | research | research |
| Autonomy | — | — |
| Availability | announced-no-dateannounced | waitlistwaitlist |
| Price | no price disclosed (not announced) | $13,500 (actual sale price) |
| Capability claims | — | — |
| Brain | — |
|
| Verified deployments | 2China Agricultural University, Tsinghua University | 2Japan Airlines, Japan Airlines |
| Privacy practices | — | — |
| Sources on file | 7 | 17 |
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.
Unitree G1
The Unitree G1 is a research and developer humanoid platform at a sub-enterprise price point, sold into university labs, hardware-research groups, and individual developers rather than enterprise integration contracts. The category distinction matters: a G1 at a research bench is in its intended environment; treating G1 in active research use as commercial deployment overstates Unitree's commercial position relative to Apollo, Digit, or Atlas. Unitree describes G1's autonomy as developer-platform capability for capability research, with the published specs (degrees of freedom, payload, runtime) as the verifiable substance; commercial deployment hours at named customer sites are not yet part of G1's record.
Common questions
- What is the difference between Booster T1 and Unitree G1?
- Booster T1 and Unitree G1 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 Unitree G1?
- Booster T1 and Unitree G1 each have 2 verified deployments on the DEPLOY registry (confirmed at named sites with primary sources).
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