Robots/Parts/Software
AimRT
Free, open-source software from AgiBot that lets the many programs inside a robot talk to each other quickly and reliably. It does the same basic job as ROS 2, the common robot framework, and AgiBot designed it to work alongside ROS 2 rather than replace it. AgiBot released it in September 2024, and most of the A2's software is built on it.
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Key numbers
- Made by
- AgiBot
- What it is
- a runtime framework: the plumbing that passes messages between a robot's programs
- Written in
- modern C++ (C++20)
- Works with
- ROS 2, plus HTTP and gRPC, two common ways for software to talk over a network
- Licence
- Mulan Permissive Software License v2, an open licence that allows commercial use
Source: GitHub, AimRT/AimRT (github.com)
Price guide
Listed price
Free
Free to download, use and change under the Mulan Permissive Software License v2, a Chinese open-source licence similar in spirit to Apache 2.0.
Where to buySource: GitHub, AimRT/AimRT, LICENSE (github.com)
Strengths and trade-offs
Our analysisStrengths
Free and open, including for commercial use.
Works alongside ROS 2, so existing robot software is not wasted.
Comes with tools for finding faults and measuring performance.
Lightweight and easy to deploy, according to AgiBot.
Trade-offs
Far smaller community than ROS 2, so less help and fewer examples.
Mainly used on AgiBot's own robots so far.
Developers have to learn a second framework next to ROS 2.
Why robot makers choose it
Our readA humanoid runs dozens of programs that must swap data many times a second. AgiBot built its own framework so it could tune that for speed on its robots, and open-sourcing it invites others to help improve it.
This is our reasoning from the public facts. No maker has confirmed it.
Robots using it
This list covers only the robots researched so far. A robot missing here may still use this part.
Numbers and listed prices on this page come from the sources shown. Anything marked as our analysis, our read or our estimate is our own view and has not been confirmed by any company. Last checked 15 Oct 2026. How we verify