Buying guide
Booster T1 vs Digit in 2026
Comparing 2 humanoid robots across availability, pricing, capabilities, and verified deployments. Current as of 2026.
Key differences
- Digit has more verified real-world deployments (8 vs 2).
- Booster T1 is at the research stage; Digit at the commercial stage.
| Attribute | ||
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Booster Robotics | Agility Robotics |
| Form factor | humanoid | humanoid |
| Maturity | research | commercial |
| Autonomy | — | — |
| Availability | announced-no-dateannounced | internal-onlyenterprise |
| Price | no price disclosed (not announced) | Not announced |
| Capability claims | — | — |
| Brain | — |
|
| Verified deployments | 2Tsinghua University, China Agricultural University | 8 |
| Privacy practices | — | — |
| Sources on file | 7 | 38 |
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.
Digit
Digit is the cohort's commercial verification anchor: the most-verified-hours humanoid in the registry, with Agility's GXO Flowery Branch deployment doing the load-bearing work. The maker-facility rule applies in reverse here. GXO operates Digit on customer-paid freight inside GXO's own warehouses, which is the commercial-deployment shape that internal-facility pilots from Tesla, 1X, and others do not yet have. Agility describes Digit's operational envelope as autonomous mobile manipulation in structured logistics; the verification anchor is what operators document at the customer site, not Agility's spec sheet.
Common questions
- What is the difference between Booster T1 and Digit?
- Booster T1 and Digit 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 Digit?
- Digit has more verified deployments (8) on the DEPLOY registry than Booster T1 (2). DEPLOY counts a deployment only when confirmed at a named site with a primary source.
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