https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2605.16537/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:27:26 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49525153urn:hackerpapers:submission:2605.16537:49525153Tue, 01 Sep 2026 17:35:10 GMT<p>Launch HN: Nori Robotics (YC S26) – A low-cost humanoid robot for development</p><p>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…</p><p>201 points; 66 discussion replies on HN. <a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2605.16537/">Paper and source history</a>. A submission is not an endorsement.</p>cs.RO