Launch HN: Nori Robotics (YC S26) – A low-cost humanoid robot for development
📌 概要
Nori Robotics（YC S26）在HN发布一款面向开发者与研究者的低成本双臂移动人形机器人，售价1688美元。创始人在哥伦比亚做机器人研究时苦于实验室硬件昂贵、难以大规模采集数据，历经七次迭代打造出该产品：19自由度、双7+1自由度臂（单臂1.5kg负载）、55kg伸缩升降、差速轮式底盘、四路720p相机、2D激光雷达、全双工语音麦克风阵列、432Wh电池及树莓派5主控。
⚡ 关键要点
- ▸Nori Robotics推出1688美元低价双臂移动机器人，瞄准机器人开发者与科研市场
- ▸硬件规格：19自由度、双臂各1.5kg负载、55kg伸缩升降、四相机+2D激光雷达+语音交互、432Wh电池
- ▸切入点是解决实验室硬件昂贵、难以批量采集数据和多机实验的痛点
- ▸公司位于旧金山，已入选Y Combinator S26批次
Hey HN, I’m Antonio from Nori Robotics (https://norirobotics.com). 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. I was teaching robots through human demonstrations, but getting my hands on affordable hardware was difficult. 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. 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 challenge. Nori has more than 100 moving and structural parts, so costs add up quickly across actuators, bearings, wiring, power delivery, and assembly. Some main choices we made to get the cost low was using high-ratio servos instead of QDD motors, and using a wheel base instead of legs.
We assemble each robot in San Francisco and have designed it to be easy to manufacture and repair (we offer 3D files to print repairs).
Our open SDK includes teleoperation and demonstration tools: https://github.com/Nori-Robotics/nori-sdk-py
We also built a browser-based simulator so you can try it out: https://lab.norirobotics.com/nori/model
We’ve shipped our first robot and are building the next batch. Eventually, we want people without robotics experience to teach Nori tasks and share them with other owners.
Currently the hardware is already capable of basic cleaning tasks, opening drawers, restocking shelves and pouring beers. Here is a video of Nori doing things: https://youtube.com/shorts/VRfVXHfQvD8
We make money by selling the hardware for $1,688, with optional paid software on top. Parts of hardware are open source. More details are in our hardware paper: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.16537
If you work in robotics, what would you build with a robot at this price? What would you change about the hardware?
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49525153
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