NGL, I’m hyped to see if Qwen3.8 27b can make me a sandwich. Instant buy for me.

Saw this little dude in a Forbes article (https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2026/08/18/american-humanoid-robot-launches-for-just-1688-delivery-this-fall-made-in-san-francisco/)

This is definitely for the DIY researcher crowd who want to dip their toes into the robotics world. It is not going to be “consumer-ready” in any way shape or form, but I Instantly preordered the shit out of this anyways. I don’t even care that all the vids of it doing stuff are probably 3x sped up and completely cherry-picked and highly edited. I DO NOT CARE that it is going to be likely absolute trash getting started with this thing. It is still going to be fucking amazing that I’m going to have a robot that could potentially injure me for $1,688.

There is very little online about this guy, but I trust Forbes did their homework, and Nori has actually supposedly delivered the first batch of the earlier L3 version from what I can tell, and their discord is active and their SDK and documentation seems legit to me. I know I’m taking a risk with pre-ordering a highly beta product from a company that’s probably run out of someone’s actual garage, but son-of-a-bitch I’M IN!!

From what I can tell it’s Raspberry Pi 5 driven for control loop, with remote inference via WiFi. I plan on connecting it to my DGX Spark.

Here’s their site:

https://www.norirobotics.com

And their SDK doc site as well:

https://docs.norirobotics.com