Nori Robotics · home humanoid
Nori A3
A low-cost home robot with a camera head and two 7-DoF arms with grippers on a telescoping column over a small mobile base, assembled in San Francisco. Each arm lifts 1.5 kg and the battery lasts 6-8 hours; it is closer to a mobile manipulator than a full humanoid.
- Price
- $1,688Cheaper than 98%
- Height
- —Not published
- Weight
- 20.4 kgHeavier than 10%
- Payload
- 1.5 kgCarries more than 3%
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- 8 hRuns longer than 75%
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Why it matters
Priced at $1,688, far below other two-armed mobile robots with a head.
Real-world use
No customers or deployments reported yet.
Maker
Nori RoboticsCompany · San Francisco, California, United StatesY Combinator-backed; amounts not disclosed
How it stacks up
Against other humanoids that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
Nori A3 is heavier than 10% of the 277 other humanoids that publish a weight. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Nori A3 carries more than 3% of the 132 other humanoids that publish a payload. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Nori A3 has more joints than 6% of the 236 other humanoids that publish a joints. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Nori A3 runs longer than 75% of the 119 other humanoids that publish a battery. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Nori A3 costs less than 98% of the 85 other humanoids that publish a price. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: height, speed.
What it has been shown doing
We checked public videos and press for Nori A3 and found no clear demo of the skills we track yet.
Public attention
How much public attention Nori A3 gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 3 news stories from reputable press listed on this page
Measures how much people read and write about a robot, not how good it is. Measured 2026-10-13; same method for every robot. How it is measured
What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Wheeled base · 19 joints
- Chip
- Raspberry Pi 5 (BCM2712) (Raspberry Pi / Broadcom)Raspberry Pi 5 (4 GB); the maker says it chose it over a Jetson Orin Nano for cost and battery life.
- Actuators & motors
- Commodity Feetech STS3215 serial-bus servos in the arms, chosen joint by joint; a two-tier thermal interlock guards against servo burn-out under stall; a three-stage telescoping linear column (imported linear drives) lifts the head and arms from 69 cm to 145 cm and is rated to lift 55 kg. 19 DoF in total.
- Hands
- Two 55 cm arms with 7+1 DoF each (7 joints plus a gripper), 1.5 kg payload per arm; 3D-printed TPU gripper fingers; no force/torque sensors, grip force is estimated from servo current.
- Sensors & vision
- Four 720p RGB cameras (up to 30 fps) on the grippers, head and neck; lidar with 12 m range at 8-12 Hz; pan-tilt sensor head; microphone and speaker for spoken commands.
- Compute
- Raspberry Pi 5 (4 GB); the maker says it rejected an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano for cost and battery reasons.
- Battery & power
- Rated 6-8 hours of runtime; capacity not published.
- Materials & build
- 45 x 45 cm wheeled base; 20.4 kg total; 3D-printed TPU finger pads.
- AI & software
- Open-source Python SDK (v1.1.0, Apache-2.0) with Cartesian end-effector control and a ROS 2 gateway; imitation learning with Action Chunking with Transformers (ACT); data recording built on Hugging Face tooling; Nori Lab laptop app to train and run skills and a Skills Marketplace for sharing them. Humanoids Daily reported on-robot perception and autonomous navigation were still unproven in September 2026.
- Other details
- Target chores: kitchen help, tidying, fetching from the fridge, loading dishes, folding clothes. Predecessor L2 (Nori Bot v1) had 17 DoF on an IKEA cart frame with a Raspberry Pi 4 and a reported parts cost near $947.
Named suppliers:NVIDIAROS (Open Robotics)Hugging FaceRaspberry PiFeetech
From the maker
Nori A3 is the only humanoid from Nori Robotics in the atlas.
Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- $1,688$1,688 assembled, no deposit.
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
- Built
- Initial production batches delivered; further shipments scheduled through late 2026
- Sold or delivered
- Shipping to customers since July 2026 per the arXiv paper; unit numbers not published
- Where it is sold or used
- Assembled in San Francisco from imported servos and linear drives
Where it is sold and supported
What Nori Robotics publishes about where you can get Nori A3 and who looks after it.
- Sold in
- Maker is US-based and assembles in San Francisco; no shipping countries stated
- How to get it
- Pre-order on the maker's site, paid in full with no deposit; shipping planned for fall 2026
- Support
- Discord community; no warranty or return terms stated
From norirobotics.com, checked October 12, 2026. Simbeing does not sell robots: buy from the maker's own page.
For builders
Can you program Nori A3? What Nori Robotics publishes.
Public documentation, an SDK or open-source code. The SDK readme says navigation and LiDAR/IMU streams are not yet confirmed on hardware.
- How
- Apache-2.0 Python SDK for teleoperation, action and pose control, with a mock robot mode and an open protocol spec; the maker's pre-order page also lists a developer beta
- Developer pages
- github.com
From norirobotics.com, checked October 12, 2026. This describes what the maker publishes, not what the robot can do.
News
The latest 3, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- Nori launches $1,688 two-armed home robot
Humanoids Daily reviewed the Nori A3, a 19-DoF wheeled bimanual robot built on hobby servos and a Raspberry Pi 5, noting early batches had shipped while autonomy remained limited.
Humanoids Daily - Revised Nori A3 paper says robot ships
A revised arXiv paper describes the A3 hardware and says units have shipped to customers since July 2026.
arXiv - Nori A3 design paper posted
Antonio Li posted a paper describing a 19-DoF mobile manipulator sold assembled for $1,688, with parts costing about a fifth of the cheapest comparable research platform.
arXiv
Side by side with its peers
Picked by the same rules for every humanoid: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. How we choose
| Measure | Nori A3Nori Robotics |  PantherUniX AISame job: home · Both on wheels · Both on sale or in pilots |  AutoLife S3 (Xiaozhi S3)AutoLife Robotics (智动未来)Same job: home · Both on wheels · Both on sale or in pilots |  Wanda 2.0UniX AISame job: home · Both on wheels · Both on sale or in pilots |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2026-05-15 | 2026-04-08 | 2026-09-04 | 2026-01 |
| Status | Commercial | Commercial | Pilot use | Commercial |
| Height | — | 175 cm | 168 cm | — |
| Weight | 20.4 kg | — | 78 kg | — |
| Joints | 19 | 34 | 36 | 23 |
| Speed | — | 7.2 km/h | — | — |
| Payload | 1.5 kg | 12 kg | 5 kg | — |
| Battery | 8 h | 12 h | 8 h | — |
| Price | $1,688 | — | — | — |
Sources
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