Robotics

Nori

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Founded 2026Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

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 $440k+ 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.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
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Founders & team

Antonio Sitong Li

Founder/CTO

Antonio is the founder of Nori Robotics. He studied Computer Science and Architecture at Columbia, where he held research fellowships with the Laidlaw Scholars Program, the Data Science Institute, and the Graphics & UI Lab. His research focused on teaching robots new tasks through VR demonstrations. He also holds a national patent for a computer-vision system, and previously co-founded Truely, which grew to 2,000+ users and 1.5M+ impressions.

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Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
5team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2026 · Source

News & product activity

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Website observationwebsite reachable
Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
Pricing evidenceNo pricing page confirmed
Maturity: Launched · 3 of 6 areas documented

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The company website offers product access through a trial, free start, app download, purchase, or onboarding with existing-account login. Customer adoption is not established by this evidence.

Company website: home Checked 2026-10-22

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