Nori Robotics Prices Its Home Bimanual Robot at $1,688, Shipping Fall 2026
Nori Robotics, a San Francisco startup, has opened orders for the Nori A3, a wheeled bimanual home robot, at $1,688 — full price, no deposit, with the company’s site promising delivery this fall. That undercuts every other robot in our index: the previous floor was Yunji Technology’s RUN at $1,820, and most “affordable” humanoids from Chinese manufacturers still start above $4,000.
The number comes with real trade-offs. Per the manufacturer’s own spec sheet, each arm carries 7+1 degrees of freedom but only a 1.5 kg payload — enough for light pick-and-place (loading a dishwasher, fetching an item) rather than anything resembling a warehouse-grade manipulator. The robot rides on a wheeled base rather than legs, runs 6-8 hours per charge, and is controlled through a laptop app called Nori Lab, with a “Skills Marketplace” for sharing trained behaviors — a software model closer to a hobbyist robotics kit than an enterprise deployment.
That’s consistent with how Nori Robotics is positioning it: a consumer device you train yourself, not a turnkey labor replacement. It’s also, by the company’s own account, a second, limited batch — the first run reportedly sold out, with initial units shipped in July.
The open question, as with any first-batch hardware startup, is whether “ships fall 2026” holds and whether the unit that arrives matches the spec sheet. We’ll update this entry’s price history if the price or availability changes. For now, it’s the cheapest bimanual robot we track, at a fraction of the cost of an industrial cobot arm — with correspondingly less arm.
Sources
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- Nori Robotics — Nori A3 (norirobotics.com)