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Hardware Requirements

Physical AI Workstation​

Minimum Configuration​

  • GPU: NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti (12GB VRAM)
  • CPU: Intel i7 13th Generation or AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
  • RAM: 32GB DDR5
  • Storage: 1TB NVMe SSD
  • OS: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
  • GPU: NVIDIA RTX 4090 (24GB VRAM) or RTX 6000 Ada
  • CPU: Intel i9 13th Generation or AMD Ryzen 9 7950X
  • RAM: 64GB DDR5
  • Storage: 2TB+ NVMe SSD
  • OS: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

Budget Configuration​

  • GPU: NVIDIA RTX 4060 Ti (16GB VRAM)
  • CPU: Intel i5 12th Generation or AMD Ryzen 5 5600X
  • RAM: 16GB DDR4
  • Storage: 500GB NVMe SSD
  • OS: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

Edge Computing Platforms​

NVIDIA Jetson​

  • Jetson Orin Nano: $400 - 8GB RAM, 128-core Tensor Core GPU
  • Jetson Orin NX: $600 - 8GB RAM, 1024-core Tensor Core GPU
  • Jetson AGX Orin: $1,000 - 32GB RAM, 2048-core Tensor Core GPU

Intel RealSense Cameras​

  • D435i: $179 - Depth camera with IMU
  • D455: $350 - Higher resolution depth camera with IMU

Humanoid Robots​

Unitree Robotics​

  • TonyPi Pro: $600 - 32 DOF, Open-source humanoid
  • Go2 Edu: $1,800 - 28 DOF, AI education robot
  • G1: $16,000 - Full humanoid robot with ROS 2 support

Cloud Alternatives​

AWS EC2 GPU Instances​

  • g5.2xlarge: $1.28/hr - 1x L4 GPU, 8 vCPUs, 32GB RAM
  • g5.4xlarge: $2.56/hr - 1x L4 GPU, 16 vCPUs, 64GB RAM
  • g6e.xlarge: $1.80/hr - 1x RTX4090, 4 vCPUs, 16GB RAM

Pricing as of November 2025​

All hardware prices are current market rates as of November 2025 and may vary by region and availability.