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Nori Robotics

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Y Combinator-backed San Francisco startup selling the Nori A3, a $1,688 wheeled bimanual robot for home tasks and robotics developers.

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Nori Robotics is a San Francisco start-up that designs and assembles low-cost wheeled bimanual robots for household tasks and for robotics developers and researchers. The company is part of Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch. Founder Antonio Sitong Li started the project while doing robotics research at Columbia University, where he worked on teaching robots through human demonstrations and found affordable hardware hard to obtain; he has said the robot went through seven iterations before the current design. Media reports in July 2026 described Nori as a four-person company.

Products. The company's earlier models were the Nori L2, priced at US$1,288, and the taller L2 Grande at US$1,322. In July 2026 it announced the Nori L3 and offered free upgrades to L2 buyers. Its current model, the Nori A3, is offered at US$1,688 with full payment and no deposit, with shipping scheduled for fall 2026; for this second batch the company said it would assemble 100 units at its San Francisco facility. According to the official website, the A3 has two arms with 7+1 degrees of freedom and 1.5 kg payload per arm, a 2D lidar with 12 m range and 8-12 Hz scanning (0.72 degree angular resolution at 10 Hz), four 720p RGB cameras at up to 30 fps on the grippers, head and neck, a speaker and microphone for spoken commands, and 6-8 hours of battery life. In the company's launch post the founder also listed 19 total degrees of freedom, a telescoping lift, a differential wheeled base, a 432 Wh battery and an onboard Raspberry Pi 5 that runs SLAM and safety functions, with heavier ACT and vision-language-action policies run on a separate computer over LAN or WAN. To hit the price, Nori uses high-ratio servos rather than quasi-direct-drive motors and a wheeled base rather than legs.

Software. The Nori Lab laptop app is used to train, operate and manage the robot; an open Python SDK with teleoperation and demonstration tools is published on GitHub, a browser-based simulator lets users try the robot model, and a skills marketplace is intended to let owners share trained tasks. The company describes target tasks such as tidying, fetching items from the fridge, loading dishes, folding clothes and pouring ingredients. Parts of the hardware are open source, many parts can be 3D printed for repairs, and a hardware paper has been posted on arXiv.

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Nori A3

US$1,688 wheeled bimanual robot with 7+1 DOF arms, lidar and four cameras for home tasks and development.

Nori L3

Revised bimanual home robot announced July 2026 with free upgrades offered to L2 buyers.

Nori Lab

Laptop app to train, teleoperate and manage Nori robots, with a browser simulator and Python SDK.

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https://www.norirobotics.com

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San Francisco , California

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