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| author | Li, Antonio Park, Sungjoon Chew, Wen Ni |
| author_facet | Li, Antonio Park, Sungjoon Chew, Wen Ni |
| contents | Open-source mobile manipulators have reached $660 (XLeRobot) but every sub-$1,000 platform shares three limitations: a fixed-height workspace, reactive-only control, and no protection against the stall-induced burn-out that destroys cheap Feetech servos. We present Nori Bot, a 17-DoF dual-arm mobile manipulator at $947 (~3% the cost of comparable commercial platforms) that addresses all three: (1) a 600mm Z-axis lift on the existing servo bus for floor-to-counter reach; (2) a thin-client Raspberry Pi 4 paired with the OpenClaw proactive agent runtime so cron jobs and hooks trigger physical tasks autonomously; and (3) a software safety stack with sensorless grip-force feedback via motor current on a soft TPU finger. Code, CAD, and the skill manifest will be released. |
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| spellingShingle | Nori Bot: A Sub-$1,000 Floor-to-Counter Mobile Manipulator Li, Antonio Park, Sungjoon Chew, Wen Ni Robotics Open-source mobile manipulators have reached $660 (XLeRobot) but every sub-$1,000 platform shares three limitations: a fixed-height workspace, reactive-only control, and no protection against the stall-induced burn-out that destroys cheap Feetech servos. We present Nori Bot, a 17-DoF dual-arm mobile manipulator at $947 (~3% the cost of comparable commercial platforms) that addresses all three: (1) a 600mm Z-axis lift on the existing servo bus for floor-to-counter reach; (2) a thin-client Raspberry Pi 4 paired with the OpenClaw proactive agent runtime so cron jobs and hooks trigger physical tasks autonomously; and (3) a software safety stack with sensorless grip-force feedback via motor current on a soft TPU finger. Code, CAD, and the skill manifest will be released. |
| title | Nori Bot: A Sub-$1,000 Floor-to-Counter Mobile Manipulator |
| topic | Robotics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.16537 |