Nori: The $1688 humanoid robot
Most humanoids cost 16k, ours cost 1.6. 19 DOF, 1.5 KG lift per arm
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YC · launched Aug 20, 2026 · 17 upvotes (top 48%) · 1 view
Niche: robotics software and platforms · 195 launches, 9 in the last 7 days ▼ -36% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Hardware & robotics
- Prosumer
- AI feature
- Commercial product
- Hard Tech
- Hardware
- Robotics
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Could you build this?
No This is a physical humanoid robotics company requiring custom hardware engineering, actuator design, kinematics, firmware, and embedded real-time robotics software.
What it would actually take: Building a functional bimanual humanoid robot demands mechanical CAD design, motor/gearbox selection, embedded systems engineering (ROS 2, CAN/EtherCAT bus), custom PCB design, and power management. Furthermore, running multi-camera vision-language-action (VLA) models or teleoperation policies on edge hardware requires deep physical robotics and reinforcement/imitation learning expertise, along with supply-chain manufacturing capabilities.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 330 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #158 of 331 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 290 days after the earliest competitor.
- Piggy Robotics - Humanoid robots · yc · 2025-11-21 · 753 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- We sent a humanoid robot to clean a stranger's apartment in SF · hn · 2026-05-15 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- YOR · hn · 2026-02-12 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- HumanoidVS · ph · 2026-11-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- NablaMimic · github · 2026-10-30 · 81 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- reflex · github · 2026-10-09 · 26 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- ULTRA · github · 2026-09-25 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- EgoHumanoid-V2 · github · 2026-10-08 · 54 upvotes · similarity 0.51
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