Fez — Videos from the event show child-size Booster robots, fitted with the ghutrah, keeping time as visitors chant and raise wooden sticks around them. The display took place alongside demonstrations of autonomous boats, air taxis, and service bots, part of a citywide program aimed at emerging mobility and robotics.
The model in the Ayyalah clips is the Booster K1, a 95-centimeter humanoid that weighs 19.5 kilograms. Company materials list a starting price of $5,999 (MAD 55,750) and three variants, labeled Geek, Education, and Professional. The K1 is marketed for education and research, with a focus on locomotion and choreography that suits public performances.
Booster positions the K1 as a RoboCup 2025 “KidSize” champion platform, and it promotes the larger Booster T1 as the “AdultSize” champion model. Separate competition communications note that the Boosted HTWK Robots team won the Humanoid League KidSize title in 2025, which aligns with the event’s Brazil edition.
The company also sells the Booster T1, an adult-scale humanoid available in basic, standard,and customized configurations. Product pages describe longer endurance and a modular design for research tasks, with resellers listing different price points according to configuration.
Event organizers bill Abu Dhabi Autonomous Week as a new platform for autonomous systems across land, sea, and air. The 2025 program gathers manufacturers, academics and government partners, and features public-facing demos that aim to make complex technologies legible to non-specialist audiences. The Ayyalah moment, shared widely by local outlets, became the day’s crowd-pleaser.
For the Gulf, the sight of robots joining a heritage dance underscores a broader push to link technological ambition with cultural identity. In Abu Dhabi and Dubai, agencies have used live showcases to normalize humanoids in roles that range from classroom assistants to event hosts. The Booster clips fit that narrative, presenting a portable platform that can be carried between venues and tuned for movement and gesture in front of a general audience.
