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NORI A3
Does not meet one of this site’s four inclusion criteria, so it is not in the catalogue.
This is a statement about what this site lists, not about the product. The criteria are deliberately narrow (multi-purpose home robots that physically handle objects and adapt to what they find), and a robot can be excellent and still sit outside them. The criteria in full.
Criteria it does not meet
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AI-driven autonomy
Not metCopes with unscripted variation within a task: it perceives what is actually there and adapts, rather than replaying a fixed motion sequence. How a task is started is not part of this test.
Nori Robotics says its laptop app "helps you train, operate, and manage your robot", and its Y Combinator profile says the software "lets anyone teach Nori to automate work". No source says that any of the listed household tasks runs on its own once taught, or shows the robot adapting within one. Press coverage describes the A3 as a low-cost developer platform; the company's published research shows a single learned grasping skill (picking a small motor up from a desk), and describes full multi-skill autonomy as work still in progress.
Evidence: 1. Nori Robotics, 2. Y Combinator, 4. Interesting Engineering, 6. Humanoids Daily, 7. RuntimeWire
Criteria it does meet
Stated as plainly as the ones above. These are not consolation: they are part of the record, and on some of these pages the evidence here is stronger than anything in the catalogue.
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Multi-task by design
MetPerforms two or more distinct household task types. Not a single-purpose appliance, and not one task described several ways. A task counts when the vendor demonstrates or states it, including when independent press reports the vendor’s own demonstration.
Nori Robotics lists helping in the kitchen, tidying, fetching from the fridge, loading dishes and folding clothes. Cooking, tidying, dishes and laundry are distinct household chores.
Evidence: 1. Nori Robotics, 3. Forbes (John Koetsier)
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Physical manipulation
MetHas arms, grippers or manipulators, and can pick up, move or handle objects.
Two arms, each 7+1 degrees of freedom with a 1.5 kg payload, on a wheeled base.
Evidence: 1. Nori Robotics
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Credible home path
MetTargets domestic use, and has a public price, preorder or announced release window. Targeting domestic use means being offered to households (an order, preorder, waitlist or announced consumer release); a public price or sales to businesses alone is not enough. Pure research demos are excluded.
Priced at USD 1,688 with no deposit, assembled in San Francisco, and listed as shipping in autumn 2026. The vendor names home tasks and describes the robot as for "home and office".
Evidence: 1. Nori Robotics, 3. Forbes (John Koetsier)
What would change this
Would qualify if Nori Robotics states that the A3 carries out named household tasks on its own once trained, or shows it doing so, rather than only when someone is controlling it.
Records are re-checked as the field moves. A robot that meets all four criteria later moves into the catalogue.
Vendor
Nori Robotics · based in US
https://www.norirobotics.com/
Recent changes
The latest changes to this record. Each was generated from the record itself.
- 2026-10-10 NORI A3 was examined and does not meet all four criteria. Sources: Nori Robotics, Y Combinator, Interesting Engineering, Humanoids Daily, RuntimeWire
Sources
Everything on this page traces to one of these. Agents read sources in any language; a claim taken from a non-English source is translated and the original link kept. “Retrieved” is when we last read the page; “published” is the source’s own date, where it states one.
- Nori Robotics
- Y Combinator
- Forbes (John Koetsier)
- Interesting Engineering
- TechCrunch
- Humanoids Daily Coverage of the A3 as a developer platform and of the company's research paper, which demonstrates one imitation-learned grasping skill.
- RuntimeWire