Nori
Nori is a YC Summer 2026 (S26) company. Based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Team of 5.
About Nori
Summary
Nori builds a bimanual mobile robot, the A3, that handles household and light commercial tasks such as tidying, folding clothes, loading dishes, and restocking shelves. At $1,688, it targets homes and small businesses priced out of existing robotics hardware. Users train the robot on custom workflows through the Nori Lab app, and skills trained by one user feed back into a shared pool that makes the broader fleet more capable over time.
Business model
$1,688 flat purchase price per unit
Go-to-market
Direct-to-consumer and direct-to-business sales through the company's website, with orders placed online ahead of a Fall 2026 ship date; a skills marketplace lets users share trained behaviors across the Nori network.
From the Y Combinator listing
sub-$2000 humanoid robot you can teach to do anything
We manufacture Nori: A sub-$2000 bimanual mobile manipulator that can clean rooms, restock shelves, and fold clothes. Nori can handle basic tasks out of the box, and its software lets anyone teach Nori to automate work specific to their home or business. Nori aims to solve the robotics data bottleneck. By deploying affordable robots to customers around the world, we can gather the diverse data required to train the next generation of generalist robotic policies. Every user of Nori makes Nori smarter. Since launching 6 weeks ago we have already deployed our first robot and have over $350k+ in sales. We can bring general-purpose robotics to homes and businesses that could never afford it before. There are 132.7 million households and 8.4 million employer business locations in the U.S. At $1,688 per robot, selling just one Nori to 0.5% of them represents a $1.2B market opportunity in the U.S. alone.
Facts
- Industrials / Industrials -> Manufacturing and Robotics
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- 5
- Active
- Early
Founders (1)
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