Nori prices its wheeled A3 humanoid at $1,688
Founder Antonio Sitong Li is selling the San Francisco-assembled robot as user-trainable hardware, with fall shipments and unfinished A3 docs.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: Y Combinator
Why it matters
At $1,688, Nori can put bimanual hardware into far more labs and homes, while its user-trained model makes software adoption and support the real test.
Antonio Sitong Li (@AntonioSitongLi) opened orders on August 18th for Nori Robotics' A3, a $1,688 wheeled robot with two arms, cameras, lidar and software that lets owners teach it new tasks.
The five-person San Francisco company, founded this year and part of Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch, plans to ship the current run this fall. Nori's order page lists the full $1,688 price rather than a deposit and includes access to an open-source software development kit, its user community and priority shipping.…