NORI A3
About
About NORI A3
NORI A3 is a wheeled bimanual home robot for everyday handling and user-led skill training. Each arm is specified with 7+1 degrees of freedom and a rated 1.5-kilogram payload. A 12-metre lidar, four 720p RGB cameras on the grippers, head and neck, and a microphone and speaker support sensing and spoken interaction.
The Nori Lab laptop application lets owners train, operate and manage the robot, while a skills marketplace is intended for sharing learned behaviours. Kitchen help, fetching, tidying, dish loading and clothes folding form part of its intended domestic role. Nori assembles A3 in San Francisco and lists six to eight hours of battery life. The robot is offered at a full price of US$1,688, with shipping scheduled for fall 2026.
Capabilities
Source-backed capabilities
- Operating environments: Intended household laundry area, Intended household kitchen
- Fabric smoothing and folding
Claimed - Fold clothes during household work. - environment: Intended household laundry area
Source - Object retrieval
Claimed - Fetch items from a refrigerator. - environment: Intended household kitchen
Source - Food preparation
Claimed - Pour ingredients during kitchen tasks. - environment: Intended household kitchen
Source
Research
- NORI A3 Python SDK
Research Publication - Nori’s Python client implements the robot protocol over WebRTC, with descriptor-driven motion, telemetry, recording, emergency-stop confirmation and a mock robot for development. The source documents A3 hardware bench verification for its remote teleoperation path.
Source