Nori: The $1688 humanoid robot
Most humanoids cost 16k, ours cost 1.6. 19 DOF, 1.5 KG lift per arm
Details
- External ID
- 111315
- Source
- YC
- Company
- Nori
- Product
- Nori: The $1688 humanoid robot
- Website domain
- norirobotics.com
- Launched
- Aug. 20, 2026
- Cohort
- Summer 2026
- Upvotes
- 16
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5172413793103449
- Tags
- Hard Tech, Hardware, Robotics
- Fetched at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 5 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 5 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- embodied AI and robotics platforms
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Hardware & robotics
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- affordable humanoid robot
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 138 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #77 of 139 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 290 days after the earliest competitor.
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- We sent a humanoid robot to clean a stranger's apartment in SF · hn · 2026-05-15 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- YOR · hn · 2026-02-12 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- ULTRA · github · 2026-09-25 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- We built a camera only robot vacuum for less than $300 (well almost) · hn · 2026-04-06 · 109 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Tensr - Robotic Factories that Build Robots from Humanoids to Robots for the International Space Station · yc · 2026-08-25 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- sonic_for_a3 · github · 2026-09-24 · 60 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- OS3: Intelligence and Machines for Physical Labor · yc · 2026-08-11 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.47
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a hardware & robotics tool for Fintech yet.