Comparison · 2 robots

Hexagon AEON · Nori A3

All humanoid robots. Every measure below is plotted against the full class, so a difference can be read against how much the class itself varies.

Hexagon AEON
Nori A3

Hexagon Robotics

Hexagon AEON

Autonomy: IIAssisted Autonomy
Score: 44/100 Concept Stage
Readiness: Not assessed
Price: Not tracked

Nori Robotics

Nori A3

Autonomy: IIAssisted Autonomy
Score: 51/100 Plausible
Readiness: Not assessed
Price: $1,688list

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01 Classification

What each one does on its own.

The Autonomy Ladder is the same five rungs for every robot on the site. A rung describes the conditions a robot handles without you, not how good it is.

Generalized

Any task, any setting

Environmental

Handles new obstacles without help

III

Conditional

Finishes familiar jobs on its own

Assisted

Runs preset routines, needs rescue

Hexagon AEONNori A3

Manual

One action, on command

02 Assessment

Where they actually differ.

The Robovations Score is nine inputs across three pillars, each weighted as shown and each scored so that more is better. A robot can lead on one and trail on another, which is the point of showing them apart. Cost of ownership and data handling are reported on each robot's own page and are never averaged into the score.

None of these robots carries a scored assessment yet, so there is nothing to plot here. The classification and evidence below still apply.

03 Measured against the class

How far apart is a long way?

A number only means something next to the spread it sits in. Each track below is the real range across every classified robot in the class, with the median marked.

Weight47 with a published figure

132.3 lbs45 lbs

Hexagon AEON132.3 lbs
Nori A345 lbs

26.5 lbsmedian 142.2 lbs661.4 lbs

Height50 with a published figure

65 in57.1 in

Hexagon AEON65 in
Nori A357.1 in

34.7 inmedian 66.9 in86.6 in

Not compared, because fewer than two of these robots carry a published figure: Price, Suction, Runtime, Charge time, Noise.

04 Ownership

What the numbers leave out.

The trade-off

What each design gives up to be good at what it is good at.

Hexagon AEON

Hexagon has never shipped a humanoid before this one, so the 1,000-unit Schaeffler commitment is a bet on a first-generation platform, not a proven one.

The pilot replaces no job outright yet: on-site safety staff remain present at every documented deployment, which is supervision, not autonomy.

Nori A3

At $1,688 you get the hardware; the chores are a project you record yourself.

Off-board inference keeps the onboard computer at Raspberry Pi 5 cost, which makes the home network part of the robot.

Who each one is wrong for

Stated by the record itself. A robot being wrong for a household is a fact about fit, not a fault.

Hexagon AEON

Households or consumer buyers of any kind: AEON is not sold, priced, or available to individual consumers; every documented deployment is an industrial pilot partnership.
Buyers needing unsupervised, hands-off operation today: Every documented deployment runs with on-site safety staff present; no hands-off or unsupervised use has been shown.
Smaller operations wanting a single unit or short trial: The disclosed commitment is roughly 1,000 units with Schaeffler; there is no published path to a small-scale or single-unit order.
Buyers requiring a proven safety or reliability record: No independent safety certification, failure-rate data, or multi-year track record exists yet for this first-generation platform.

Nori A3

Households wanting chores done on delivery: No independent source documents which tasks work when the robot arrives, and Nori's own paper reports no measured task performance. Routines are recorded as demonstrations first.
Multi-level homes needing help on more than one floor: The base is wheeled and differentially driven. Nothing in Nori's documentation describes stair climbing, so a second floor means carrying a 20.4 kg robot.
Homes with unreliable internet or no appetite for off-board processing: Policy inference runs on an off-board backend, and Nori's paper names network connectivity as a requirement. Without it, the onboard Raspberry Pi 5 has no learned behavior to run.
Tasks involving heavy items held in the grippers: The 55 kg rating belongs to the lift column. Each arm is rated for 1.5 kg, which limits handling to light household objects.
Buyers who need warranty terms and a support record: Y Combinator lists Nori Robotics as founded in 2026 with five people, and the order page states no warranty or return terms.

What stays your job

The upkeep ownership hands back to you, whatever the autonomy level says.

Hexagon AEON

Daily: Battery charging between shifts; no published downtime or hot-swap figures.
Weekly: Sensor and camera calibration checks by on-site technical staff.
Monthly: Software and behavior updates pushed via Hexagon’s fleet management.
Every 3-6 months: Actuator and joint wear inspection; no published parts-replacement cadence.
As needed: Wheeled-leg component service; no independent failure or repair data published.

Nori A3

Daily: Recharge the battery, which Nori rates for 6 to 8 hours of operation.
As needed: Record new demonstrations in Nori Lab to add or retrain a task.
As needed: Restart work after the thermal interlock disables the motor bus at 59°C.
As needed: Replace broken parts using the replacement CAD Nori supplies.
As needed: Take backend policy updates, which reach deployed units without a hardware change.
As needed: Clean the lidar window and four camera lenses when perception inputs look obstructed.

05 Evidence

How much each of these is standing on.

Classifications rest on different depths of evidence. A pre-release assessment and a verified one are not the same kind of claim.

Evidence behind each classification
Robot	Evidence status	Sources reviewed	Last assessed
Hexagon AEON	Not Consumer-Ready	1	Sep 2026
Nori A3	Not Consumer-Ready	8	Sep 2026