Three New Entries in September’s Home Robot Top 10

September added three unlike entries

Humanoid Home News reported three new entries in its September 2026 U.S. home-robot Top 10: an unnamed OpenAI entry at No. 5, Homebot One KOKO at No. 9, and Nori Robotics’ Nori A3 at No. 10. The article was published September 1 and framed the changes as movement in the lower half of the list.

These placements belong to one publication’s dated editorial ranking. The useful story is that three different programs entered a home-focused list at the same time. The numbers do not create a common product category with identical specifications, nor do they report a contest in which the three performed the same tasks.

OpenAI entered without a public model name in the report

The article labeled OpenAI’s entry as a model not announced and placed it at No. 5. That makes the organization’s appearance newsworthy while sharply limiting product-level comparison. A reader cannot derive a body design, feature set, price, or delivery schedule from the entry.

Humanoid Home News explained that its method can consider company credibility and forward-looking home-market relevance alongside product maturity and availability. That editorial scope helps explain an unnamed entry, but it should not be mistaken for an OpenAI product announcement.

KOKO entered as Homebot One’s named home robot

KOKO appeared at No. 9 with Homebot One identified as the company. Homebot One’s own sites provide more public context about the KOKO project, its home focus, and routes for a waitlist or demo inquiry. Those official pages are the appropriate source for current product positioning.

The ranking article said KOKO added another company explicitly targeting the home. It did not publish a retail offer or a standardized capability score. Readers should treat the list as a prompt to examine KOKO’s current evidence, not as a substitute for a relevant demonstration.

Read the official KOKO overview →

Nori A3 entered at No. 10

The same report placed Nori A3 from Nori Robotics at No. 10. The article identified it as the third new entry and noted that three previous entries moved below the Top 10 cutoff. That describes list turnover rather than a finding that those projects stopped mattering.

A fair recap gives Nori A3 the same source discipline as the other entrants: name the position and publisher, then use Nori Robotics’ own materials for product claims. Do not fill gaps by borrowing features from KOKO, OpenAI, or another robot on the list.

Compare evidence, not just ordinal numbers

A useful comparison table would track what each organization has publicly named, what official documentation exists, what access route is described, and when the information was checked. It would not turn positions 5, 9, and 10 into claims about task speed, safety, intelligence, or value without matching test data.

The September list is best used as a market-discovery tool. Follow each entry through its primary sources, preserve unknowns, and revisit the live leaderboard only when a later snapshot is needed. This approach informs readers without treating three unlike evidence records as a product race.

• Compare source dates before comparing statements.
• Separate named products from unnamed organizational entries.
• Use official sources for specifications and access.
• Do not infer partnerships among new entrants.

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