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SMRTR AI• Jul 14, 2026• Interesting Engineering

Video: China’s new humanoid robot combines whole-body control and Nvidia Thor compute

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Booster Robotics unveiled the T2, a humanoid robot powered by Nvidia's Thor chip delivering 2,070 TFLOPS of onboard AI computing. Standing 4.5 feet tall with 31 degrees of freedom, it walks, recovers from falls, and handles objects while moving, supported by the new Booster Studio development platform.

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