Nori Robotics

S26Hardware & Robotics2026

One-liner, as posted

A low-cost humanoid robot for development

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Excerpt

We build a $1,688 bimanual mobile robot in San Francisco for robotics developers and researchers. I started working on Nori while doing robotics research at Columbia. I was teaching robots through human demonstrations, but getting my hands on affordable hardware was difficult.

Short excerpt from the founders’ Launch HN post. Read the full original at the link below.

Read the launch post on Hacker News Company website

Posted 2026-09-01 · 201 points · 66 comments. Batch as stated by the founders in the post title.