Nori Robotics shipped a $1,688 humanoid with a skill marketplace, first units out July 21
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Nori Robotics (YC S26) launched the Nori A3 on Hacker News with a wheeled base, 19 degrees of freedom, two claw-equipped arms lifting a couple of pounds each, and LiDAR plus cameras, assembled in San Francisco. Owners teach it tasks by demonstration and publish them to a Skill Marketplace where other owners install them, an app-store model applied to robot behaviors. The stated price is roughly a tenth of typical humanoid hardware and the Launch HN post reached 197 points.