A new humanoid crossed the radar this week: the A3 by Nori Robotics, a sub-$2,000 humanoid designed and assembled in San Francisco and shipping this year. The first question for any interesting new robot is always the same — does it have a GitHub? — followed immediately by the second: does it publish real URDF files?
For the Nori A3, the answer to both was yes. From there, a custom Claude skill built specifically for adding entries to the Robot Gallery took over — license check, spec verification, mesh resolution — and a few minutes later the A3 had its own manifest and one-tap deep link into ARMOR. Filmed from a terrace in Mundaka, taking a week away from the noise of Aste Nagusia back in Bilbao.
Key Points
- The Nori A3: a sub-$2,000 humanoid from Nori Robotics, shipping this year
- Confirmed on GitHub with real, published URDF files
- Added to the Robot Gallery in minutes via a custom deep-link-authoring skill
- One more example of an indie/small-team robot alongside the major vendors already in the catalog
See Finding URDF Files for how to check whether a robot you’ve found actually has an importable description, and Robot Gallery & Deep Links for how the one-tap import itself works.