Booster Robotics' Humanoid Robots Dominate RoboCup 2026

KUALA LUMPUR, July 9 (Bernama) -- Booster Robotics announced that its humanoid robots claimed all championship titles across the Small, Middle and Large divisions at RoboCup 2026.

A total of 59 teams from around the world participated in RoboCup 2026, with 38 teams competing using Booster robots, including Badger Bots (United States), Bahia Robotics Team (Brazil), Berlin United (Germany), Inha-United (South Korea), Pumas (Mexico), RedbackBots (Australia), and RFC-Tsudanuma (Japan).

The widespread adoption signals a fundamental shift in robotics competitions, focusing not only on who can build the robot but also on who can make it smarter, according to Booster Robotics in a statement.

In previous years, teams devoted much of their research and development (R&D) resources to building robots from scratch, with significant effort focused on mechanical design, hardware development and basic locomotion control.

This year marked a clear turning point, with leading teams focusing on advancing perception, real-time decision-making and multi-agent coordination, while Booster Robotics provided the underlying platform.

Booster Robotics recently launched Booster Studio, described as the world's first integrated development environment (IDE) for embodied intelligence, providing engineers, researchers and developers with a unified platform to program, simulate and deploy humanoid robot behaviours more efficiently.

According to the company, one of the youngest teams at RoboCup 2026 came from Pui Ching Middle School in Macau. Using Booster Studio, the students developed, trained and validated their algorithms in a highly realistic digital environment before deploying them onto real robots.

At the same time, Booster Robotics officially launched the Booster Champion 3v3 Soccer Tournament, inviting developers and embodied intelligence enthusiasts worldwide to compete, collaborate and help advance the future of embodied intelligence.

-- BERNAMA