Nori Robotics · United States · Wheeled base

A3

Name: Nori Robotics A3
Brand: Nori Robotics
Price: 1688 USD
Availability: PreOrder

Developer / demo platformConsumer availablePreorder

A $1,688 wheeled two-armed robot assembled in San Francisco, with a display head on a column that rises from 69 to 145 cm and 7-joint arms carrying 1.5 kg each. You teach it by teleoperated demonstrations that Nori's cloud turns into policies. Paid in full for a second batch shipping fall 2026, to 60 countries including the EU.

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Delivered to United States: from ~$1,733(~€1,544)

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What is in the crate

4 included|4 not included

Hands

Grippers, not dexterous hands

Each arm ends in a servo-driven two-finger claw with soft TPU fingers on an open connector, so you can design your own end effector. Grip force is estimated from the servo's current; there is no force sensor. Payload is 1.5 kg per arm at 55 cm reach.

In the crate

Nori A3, shipped assembled: display head, torso on a 69 to 145 cm telescoping column, two 7+1-joint arms with two-finger grippers, differential-drive base Four 720p cameras (both grippers, head and neck), a 12 m lidar, an IMU, speaker and microphone 24 V, 18 Ah battery (6 to 8 hours of operation) Access to Nori's SDK, GitHub and Discord community

You still have to add

A published box list: Nori says the A3 box contents will come with its hardware docs A computer to run trained policies: inference runs off-board, on your own machine or a server Working on-robot perception or a skill marketplace (both still to come per Nori's docs) A warranty, returns or terms page

Day onePer Nori's docs, you pair it to a Nori account, then drive it by keyboard in a browser, in VR or from code, record demonstrations of a task, have Nori's cloud train a policy on them, and run that policy from your own computer over the network.

Reality check

At $1,688 it is the cheapest wheeled two-armed robot in this catalog, but you pay in full up front to a five-person startup with no terms, warranty or refund policy published, for a batch with no ship date, and its own docs say it cannot yet perceive objects on its own.

Can you get one, and what will it cost?

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Grippers, not dexterous hands

Spare batteries and other accessories are excluded. Confirm compatibility and pricing with the seller.

Machinebase: $1,688
Freightlocal delivery: $45 - $168
Import duty0%: 0
Sales tax0%: 0
Customs clearance: 0
Estimated total to United States: $1,733 - $1,857

Converted from euros at 1.1225 USD per euro (ECB reference rate, 2 October 2026): €1,544 - €1,654 in euros.

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Where to buy

Catalog checked 2026-10

Individuals and companies can inquire. Confirm the configuration, stock, and delivery with the seller.

Anyone with a card: checkout asks for a name, email and address, with no business or research check. A separate developer beta application exists for researchers and engineering teams. Checkout accepts shipping addresses in 60 countries, including the US, Canada, the UK, Switzerland, Japan, South Korea, India and every EU country except Cyprus, but not Australia.

Price notes: $1,688, full price paid at order ('Full price, no deposit'), for a limited second batch of 100 units that the checkout calls 'Batch 2 shipping Fall 2026' and 'Fully refundable'. Checkout added no tax or shipping line for a San Francisco or a Berlin address (read 22 Oct 2026); Nori's beta form says international buyers are the importer of record and pay duties and customs. No terms, warranty or refund policy page is published.

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Full $1,688 by card through Stripe for the 'Batch 2' run of 100 units, 'ships fall 2026' with no date; the checkout says 'Fully refundable' with no window or policy. Ships to 60 countries; duties are the buyer's outside the US.
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How the A3 rates

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Class: Developer / demo platformA platform for demonstrations or robotics development. SDK access and supported tasks depend on the exact configuration.
CapabilityHardware specification indicators: 2/5; Baseline: any humanoid+1
Degrees of freedom: 19 DOF+0.5
Dexterity: grippers, not dexterous hands+0.25
Scale: 145 cm tall+0.5
Payload: 1.5 kg0
MaturitySales availability indicators: 3/5; How it sells: preorder+3

Key specifications

Height

145 cm

Width

45 cm

Depth

45 cm

Weight

20.4 kg

Degrees of freedom

Battery

~360 min

Payload

1.5 kg

Top speed

n/a

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Market activity

Full tracker

Aug 18, 2026Nori Robotics opens orders for the $1,688 Nori A3, a two-armed robot assembled in San FranciscoLaunch

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Nori Robotics: Private: its shares do not trade on any exchange.

Nori Robotics is a San Francisco startup in Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch with a team of 5, and no funding round has been publicly disclosed. It started shipping the USD 1,688 A3 on 21 Jul 2026 and there is no listing step.

Size to scale

Drawn next to a 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) person. Every robot on the site uses this same reference, so you can trust the comparison at a glance.

A3: 145 cm / 4 ft 9 in, 20.4 kg

Footprint: 45 cm wide x 45 cm deep

About the A3background, hardware and buying reality

The A3 comes from Nori Robotics, a five-person Y Combinator (Summer 2026) startup founded by Antonio Sitong Li, which opened orders on 18 August 2026. It weighs 20.4 kg on a 45 x 45 cm base, has 19 actuated joints (7 plus a gripper per arm, the lift and two drive wheels; the head is fixed), Feetech serial-bus servos, a Raspberry Pi 5 for control and safety, four cameras and a lidar. Nori's docs and its hardware paper say A3 units have shipped since 21 July 2026, while its store sells a 100-unit second batch for 'fall 2026'; the store sold an earlier, different robot (the L2, $1,288, Batch 1 of 100) at the same address in June and July, and no buyer has posted an A3 yet. Nori's paper says its figures describe the design, not measured performance.

What it does on day onewith zero programming

Per Nori's docs, you pair it to a Nori account, then drive it by keyboard in a browser, in VR or from code, record demonstrations of a task, have Nori's cloud train a policy on them, and run that policy from your own computer over the network. The YC profile says it handles 'basic tasks out of the box', but the docs say on-robot perception is not working yet, so expect teleoperation and teaching before anything runs alone.

Best for: Developers, students and tinkerers who want the cheapest two-armed mobile manipulator for imitation-learning and home-task experiments, and are comfortable teaching it by teleoperation and running policies from their own computer.

Documented uses

Manipulation research Household help

Nori documents teleoperation (browser, VR or SDK), recording demonstrations, cloud training of imitation-learning policies and running them from your own computer, and its order page shows kitchen help, tidying, fetching from the fridge and folding clothes as the home tasks it is taught.

Its own docs say on-robot perception does not work yet ('perceive() returns null on real hardware') and the skill marketplace is not open, so every task is taught by your own demonstrations. The current batch ships 'fall 2026' with no date, and no buyer has posted a delivered unit.

Source reviewed 2026-10-22

Assessment from published documentation, not an independent performance test. Applies to the configuration described above.

What it takes to developskills, gear, and SDK access

A computer on the same network to run trained policies (Nori's desktop app installer is not available yet; the docs say to run it from source), Python if you use the SDK, and Wi-Fi. A one-way 'developer posture' opens SSH and the robot's ROS 2 graph on your LAN but removes Nori's cloud features from that unit.

SDK access: Python SDK (nori-sdk on PyPI) and the wire protocol are Apache-2.0; a TypeScript SDK is not on npm yet. The robot description (URDF for Isaac Sim, MuJoCo and Gazebo) is CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, printable parts are CC BY 4.0, and the on-robot software is source-available under the PolyForm Internal Use licence: Nori's own docs say it is 'not open source in the OSI sense'. Datasets use the LeRobot format; training runs in Nori's cloud.

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