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Robotics · San Francisco, CA, USA · Founded 2026 · Formation stage

Nori Robotics

The most capable American-made humanoid robot for $1,688

Review noteNori Robotics is a YC S26 company selling a $1,688 wheeled bimanual robot assembled in San Francisco; solo founder Antonio Sitong Li (Columbia). Source ↗

Edge

17#107 · ▲34 in 7d

2 of 8 families

Why now

  1. Domain rank rose from 3,825,213 to 2,075,863 in 30 days, a bigger gain than 92% of similarly ranked sites

    Traffic · Oct 18

  2. Launch HN (YC S26) reached 201 points and 66 comments, the author's first HN story

    Launch · Sep 1

People

  • AntonioLi

    Launch HN post author

    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.

  • 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.

Score

Momentum19

 

Launch, traffic

Thesis fit100

× 1.00

Matched on actuator, battery, humanoid, industrial, lidar

Earliness100

× 1.00

Almost no public footprint

Team–

× 0.85

2 named people, none from a top lab or company

19 × 1.00 × 1.00 × 0.85 = 17

Edge, 12 weeks

Signals

  1. Oct 18TrafficDomain rank rose from 3,825,213 to 2,075,863 in 30 days, a bigger gain than 92% of similarly ranked sites↗
  2. Sep 16TrafficAppeared on the Tranco web ranking on Sep 16 and now ranks 2,111,960, unranked 30 and 90 days earlier↗
  3. Sep 1LaunchLaunch HN (YC S26) reached 201 points and 66 comments, the author's first HN story↗
  4. Aug 20LaunchYC launch post reached 16 votes↗
  5. Jul 13TrafficCertificates issued in the last 120 days name 2 notable subdomains: lab and docs↗
  6. Jul 3LaunchListed in YC Summer 2026 under Manufacturing and Robotics, now a team of 5↗
  7. Jun 8TrafficDomain norirobotics.com was registered on Jun 8↗

Undated

  1. AttentionMentioned 1 time on Hacker News to date↗