Booster Robotics SDK is an open-source developer toolkit for controlling Booster Robotics T1 and K1 humanoid robots. It provides both C++ (CMake) and Python (pip) APIs, supporting Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on aarch64 and x86_64 architectures. Internally it relies on eProsima Fast DDS (Apache 2.0) and pybind11. Available on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 license.
An SDK (Software Development Kit) is a curated set of libraries, interfaces, tools, sample code, and documentation intended for building applications and integrating with a specific hardware device, platform, or service. In robotics, an SDK typically exposes device control, telemetry, sensor access, configuration, and execution functions, significantly reducing the time-to-first-integration for developers targeting a specific robot or platform.
Robot Control denotes the role of software responsible for motion control, command execution, coordination of actuating elements and the direct operational logic of the robot.
A family of official SDKs and APIs provided by robot manufacturers: Boston Dynamics (Spot SDK), ABB (RobotStudio), KUKA (RSI / KUKA Sunrise), Universal Robots (URCap / RTDE), Agility Robotics (Digit SDK), Apptronik (Apollo SDK).
Used by RoboCup humanoid-league teams to program Booster robots (K1/T1); at RoboCup 2026, 38 of 59 teams competed on Booster robots.
Open-source GitHub repository (BoosterRobotics/booster_robotics_sdk): ~121 stars, 41 forks.
Booster T1 is a 23-DOF bipedal humanoid robot from Beijing built by Tsinghua University alumni. Standing 120 cm tall and weighing 30 kg, it features a 200 TOPS GPU, supports ROS 2, Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, and Webots.
Entry-level KidSize humanoid development platform (~95 cm) by Booster Robotics; 22 DOF, built for embodied AI and RoboCup. Winner of RoboCup 2025 KidSize.
License family: Permissive
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