Thirty-eight of 59 RoboCup 2026 teams used Booster robots
Teams using Booster Robotics humanoid robots won every championship title at RoboCup 2026 in Santa Clara, California, on 9th July 2026.
RoboCup 2026 drew 59 teams from around the world, and 38 of them competed on Booster robots across the Small, Middle and Large divisions.
Named Booster teams included Badger Bots and UT AustinVilla from the United States, Bahia Robotics Team from Brazil, Berlin United, B-Human, HTWK Robots, HULKs and Ruhrbot Devils from Germany, Inha-United from South Korea, KURA from the UAE, NUbots, RedbackBots and rUNSWift from Australia, Pumas from Mexico, RFC-Tsudanuma from Japan, Rhoban from France, RoboEireann from Ireland, Robo-Erectus from Singapore, SPQR Team from Italy, Tech United and whIRLwind Amsterdam from the Netherlands.
In the Large division, Tsinghua Hephaestus won the title, CAU Mountain&Sea finished runner-up and BISTU Water placed third. All three teams used Booster T1.
B-Human won the Middle division ahead of HTWK Robots and Rhoban, with all three teams competing on Booster K1.
Meanwhile, Invic won the Small division, Hamburg Bit-Bots took second and GeoHBots finished third. Invic and GeoHBots competed on Booster K1 Air.
Booster Robotics linked those results to a broader change in RoboCup 2026, with top teams focusing more on perception, real-time decision-making and multi-agent coordination.
Earlier RoboCup teams often built robots from scratch and spent major effort on mechanical design, hardware development and basic locomotion control.
By 2026, Booster supplied the base platform while teams pushed software and match performance. The company also improved leg and foot locomotion, high-speed running, sudden stops, turns, fall recovery and sustained motion.
That hardware and software split helps complex code run more reliably on real robots.
Booster Studio launch
Booster Robotics recently launched Booster Studio, which it described as the first integrated development environment for embodied intelligence. The platform lets engineers, researchers and developers programme, simulate and deploy humanoid robot behaviours in one place.
After that release, Booster opened the Booster Champion 3v3 Soccer Tournament at champion.booster.tech/?lang=en. The company invited developers and embodied intelligence enthusiasts to compete and collaborate, and it plans to expand the event into more real-world scenarios.
Pui Ching Middle School from Macau was one of the youngest teams at RoboCup 2026. The team used Booster Studio to develop, train and validate algorithms in a digital environment before deploying them on real robots.
