$1,688 Humanoid Robot From San Francisco's Nori Opens Preorders for DIY Researchers
Porespellar · reddit · 2026-09-19
A Reddit user preordered the $1,688 humanoid robot from San Francisco's Nori Robotics, covered by Forbes and shipping this fall. Key details:
- Positioned for DIY researchers, not consumers; early L3 batch reportedly already delivered, active Discord and legit SDK docs
- Buyer acknowledges demo videos are likely 3x sped up and cherry-picked, and the product is highly beta
- Control loop runs on Raspberry Pi 5 with remote inference over WiFi; the author plans to connect it to a DGX Spark
- Site: norirobotics.com, docs: docs.norirobotics.com
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