Nori A3
NORI A3 is an affordable bimanual wheeled mobile manipulator designed for home and office use. It features dual 7+1 DOF arms with a 1.5 kg payload per arm, a wheeled base for mobility, lidar and four 720p RGB cameras for perception, and a voice interface. The robot ships with the Nori Lab laptop app for training and operation, and a Skill Marketplace for sharing learned capabilities. Assembled in San Francisco by Nori Robotics.
Primary use case: Home assistance — kitchen tasks, fetching items from refrigerators, pouring drinks, loading dishwashers, folding clothes, and general household chores
Height
145 cm
Weight
20.4 kg
DOF
19
Payload
1.5 kg
Battery
7 hrs
Price
$2K
Specifications
Physical
Height
145 cm
Weight
20.4 kg
Degrees of Freedom
19
Locomotion
Wheeled
Manipulation
Hand Type
Two-finger parallel gripper (soft TPU gripper fingers with sensorless force estimation via motor current sensing)
Payload
1.5 kg
Max Lift/Arm
1.5 kg
Power & Autonomy
Battery Life
7 hrs
Autonomy Level
Semi-autonomous — operates via learned imitation policies (ACT/teleoperation-trained) with human oversight; Skill Marketplace provides shareable task capabilities
AI & Compute
AI Capabilities
ACT (Action Chunked Transformer) imitation learning via teleoperation; policy inference via companion laptop or cloud GPU
Onboard Compute
Onboard AI computer running Linux-based Nori Lab platform; policy inference supported by companion laptop or cloud GPU
Commercial
Price
$2K
Availability
commercial
Primary Use Case
Home assistance — kitchen tasks, fetching items from refrigerators, pouring drinks, loading dishwashers, folding clothes, and general household chores
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New US humanoid robot targets house chores with $1,688 price tag
Nori Robotics, a San Francisco-based company, has unveiled the Nori A3 humanoid robot priced at $1,688, making it one of the most affordable humanoid robots on the market. The robot uses a wheeled base with 19 degrees of freedom and can perform household tasks including fetching food, pouring drinks, loading dishwashers, and folding clothes, with 6-8 hours of battery life.
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Forbes coverage of Nori A3: a $1,688 American-assembled humanoid robot from Nori Robotics, shipping this fall from San Francisco, with 19 DOF, 55 kg vertical lift, 6–8 hour battery life, lidar, cameras, voice support, and a skills marketplace.