Accelerated Evolution Booster T2: A humanoid robot powered by NVIDIA Thor

Chinese robotics company Accelerated Evolution launched the Booster T2 on Friday, an embodied AI development platform that packs NVIDIA’s Thor system-on-a-chip into a 1.4-meter tall humanoid robot. The professional edition is on sale now, though the company hasn’t disclosed pricing.

At the heart of the Booster T2 sits NVIDIA’s Thor, a single-chip architecture rated at 2070 TFLOPS of compute. It’s paired with a 14-core CPU running at up to 2.6GHz and 128GB of 256-bit LPDDR5X memory. That combination drives edge-side multimodal inference with latency as low as 100 milliseconds — fast enough for the robot to process visual, auditory, and sensor data in real time without relying on a cloud connection.

The robot itself stands 1.4 meters tall with up to 75 degrees of freedom across its body. Accelerated Evolution developed proprietary high-torque joints for the platform — each joint can deliver up to 140 Nm of torque, and each arm can carry a static payload of up to 10 kg. The whole frame uses industrial-grade construction designed for repeated physical interaction.

Battery life is a genuine constraint for any walking robot, but the Booster T2 manages over two hours of continuous walking on its large-capacity battery pack. The system supports magnetic charging and can operate while plugged in. That makes it practical for extended development sessions, where a robot might need to test the same walking gait or manipulation task hundreds of times.

Accelerated Evolution is positioning the Booster T2 as a development platform rather than a finished product. Both high-level and low-level APIs are fully open, which means research teams and robotics startups can build their own behavior stacks on top of the hardware. The company targets use cases in embodied AI research, autonomous manipulation, and human-robot interaction studies.

The choice of NVIDIA’s Thor is notable. Thor was originally announced as a centralized compute platform for autonomous vehicles, but its architecture — combining GPU, CPU, and dedicated deep learning accelerators on a single die — makes it equally suited for robotics. At 2070 TFLOPS, it’s one of the most powerful embedded AI chips available for a walking platform.

The fact that Accelerated Evolution is shipping a Thor-powered humanoid to developers — rather than keeping it as an internal prototype — signals how quickly the embodied AI market is maturing. Six months ago, a robot with this kind of compute and joint performance would have been a research lab curiosity. Today, it’s something you can buy.