Launch HN: Nori Robotics (YC S26) – A low-cost humanoid robot for development

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Launch HN: Nori Robotics (YC S26) – A low-cost humanoid robot for development.

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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.

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I was teaching robots through human demonstrations, but getting my hands on affordable hardware was difficult.

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Most labs have one or two expensive robots, which makes it hard to collect large datasets, run long experiments, or test across several robots.So I built my own.

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After seven iterations the latest Nori has:* 19 degrees of freedom* Two 7+1 DOF arms with a 1.5 kg payload per arm* A 55 kg telescoping lift* A differential wheeled base* Four 720p, 30 fps RGB cameras* 2D lidar* A dual microphone array with full-duplex voice communication* A 432 Wh battery* A Raspberry Pi 5 with 4 GB RAM (SLAM and safeties are run on board, heavier ACT and VLAs must be run from a computer via LAN or a server via WAN)Getting this under $2,000 was the main engineering...

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