San Francisco startup Nori Robotics has begun shipping the A3, a two armed mobile robot priced at $1,688, with the first units delivered in July and wider availability set for this fall.
A startup in San Francisco is selling a two armed robot for $1,688.
This is the Nori A3, and the first units already went out the door in July.
It does not walk. The A3 rides on a wheeled base, and the entire body core lifts and lowers, so the arms can reach from the floor up to a kitchen counter.
Nineteen degrees of freedom in total. Seven plus one in each arm. Each arm handles about one and a half kilos out at full stretch, while the lifting column itself is rated for fifty five kilograms.
For sensing, there is a lidar with a twelve metre range, four seven twenty p cameras on the head, the neck and the grippers, and a speaker and microphone so you can just talk to it.
Battery runs six to eight hours.
The demos show it pulling food out of the fridge, pouring a drink, loading a dishwasher, folding laundry.
The clever part is how it learns. You teach it from a laptop app called Nori Lab, and Nori is building a skill marketplace where owners share and download the tasks they have trained.
Nori’s own pitch is that what keeps robots out of homes is cost discipline rather than intelligence.
720p cameras and a one and a half kilo payload are modest numbers, and hardware built to a price gets tested hard in a real home.
Founder Antonio Sitong Li assembles the robots in San Francisco, but most of the components are sourced overseas.
Wider shipping starts this fall.