Introduction to ROBOTIS AI WORKER

Hello, everyone,

I’m excited to introduce you to ROBOTIS AI WORKER, an open-source, ROS 2 based mobile humanoid robot that leverages teleoperation and transformer-based imitation learning to perform real-world manipulation tasks. We’re pushing the boundaries of Physical AI, making complex robot behaviors accessible through intuitive human demonstrations.

ROBOTIS AI WORKER, Imitation Learning Demo

This video showcases the imitation learning pipeline for AI WORKER — starting from teleoperation-based data collection to data visualization and finally Model inference.

Our current policy is based on ACT(Action Chunking with Transformers), enabling the robot to understand and execute high-level behaviors from demonstration data.

:pushpin: In this video, you’ll see:

  1. Teleoperation for collecting demonstration data
  2. Visualization of the collected data
  3. Model inference using a trained transformer-based model

We begin with a simple pick-and-place task, but more complex manipulation behaviors are on the way.
Stay tuned as we continue to push the boundaries of physical AI in real-world robotics.

:robot: This project is built with ROS 2 and is fully open source.

:link: GitHub Repository:
:point_right: GitHub - ROBOTIS-GIT/ai_worker: AI Worker: FFW (Freedom From Work)
:point_right: GitHub - ROBOTIS-GIT/physical_ai_tools: physical_ai_tools

:bulb: This project makes use of open-source resources from ROS and HuggingFace LeRobot :hugs: — many thanks for sharing such valuable tools!

“ROBOTIS AI Worker Demo Showcase”

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Also, I found that there is a more formal web site for this project at

How did you find it? Haha! This page is under construction and not populated yet. I hope to have it ready in the next week or so.

It was simply a link that I found on the GITHUB page for the AI worker.

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@robotpilot

Today, I just happened to visit the NVIDIA Jetson Roadmap web site

which shows that Ubuntu 24.04 won’t be supported for Jetson Orin series until Q1 2026.

And then I visited the AI Worker Set Up web site at

to see that the AI Worker is using an Orin AGX 32 GB and a custom OS based on Ubuntu 24.04 + Special Docker.

In other words, the Open Source Team had been working very hard!!! You guys are even ahead of NVIDIA! :clap:

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We wanted to use ROS 2 Jazzy, but JetPack 6.x only supported Ubuntu 22.04. As a result, we had no choice but to use Ubuntu 24.04. We are overcoming this limitation through Docker, and we are eagerly waiting for NVIDIA to officially support Ubuntu 24.04 as well.