Comparison · 2 robots

Nori A3 · Xiaomi CyberOne

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.

Nori A3
Xiaomi CyberOne

Nori Robotics

Nori A3

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

Xiaomi

Xiaomi CyberOne

Autonomy: IIAssisted Autonomy
Score: 51/100 Plausible
Readiness: Not assessed
Price: Not tracked

Up to three

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

Nori A3Xiaomi CyberOne

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.

Weight48 with a published figure

45 lbs114.6 lbs

Nori A345 lbs
Xiaomi CyberOne114.6 lbs

26.5 lbsmedian 142.6 lbs661.4 lbs

Height51 with a published figure

57.1 in69.7 in

Nori A357.1 in
Xiaomi CyberOne69.7 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.

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.

Xiaomi CyberOne

Bipedal form factor delivers natural movement and object manipulation, but no consumer deployment or operational evidence exists to calibrate reliability or task capability.

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.

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.

Xiaomi CyberOne

Consumer home automation buyers: No retail availability or consumer pricing. Research-only deployment excludes residential use cases. No timeline for consumer release.
Any buyer or operator, of any kind: There is no access model. CyberOne has never been sold, leased, loaned, or made available through a research, educational or corporate program, and Xiaomi has published no purchase path and no support infrastructure for it.
Buyers needing near-term deployment: No documented release date or commercial availability timeline. Development stage unspecified; minimum viable timeline unknown.
Buyers seeking operating cost or consumable documentation: The only economic figure Xiaomi has published is a build cost of 600,000 to 700,000 yuan per unit, roughly $89,000 to $104,000, stated in 2022 as the reason mass production was not feasible. That is what a unit costs to make, not a price to buy one. No acquisition, maintenance or consumable costs exist because no unit has been distributed.

What stays your job

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

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 138°F.
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.

Xiaomi CyberOne

As needed: No CyberOne has been placed with any owner or operator; there is no maintenance regime, service network, or consumable schedule to describe.
As needed: Battery care sits with Xiaomi’s lab; pack specification, charging practice, and service life are unpublished.
As needed: Actuator and joint upkeep across the 21 degrees of freedom is internal to Xiaomi engineering; no wear data or parts list exists.
As needed: Software updates are internal; Xiaomi has published no firmware history since the August 2022 reveal.
As needed: Xiaomi has published no manual, parts list, or service documentation for CyberOne; nothing exists for an operator to order or schedule.

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
Nori A3	Not Consumer-Ready	8	Sep 2026
Xiaomi CyberOne	Pre-Release	8	Sep 2026