Flourish Robots, a consumer robotics startup that had kept its work under wraps, introduced Flourish 1, a $3,555 home robot, on Tuesday, Sept. 29. The company says owners can teach it new chores themselves from a phone, which, if it works as described, would let people train a household robot without writing any code. The first batch is limited to 50 units.
Flourish says teaching a household task takes about 30 minutes: the owner guides the robot through the task once with a phone app. The chores it lists include picking up shoes, clothes and toys, loading a dishwasher, wiping tables, watering plants, fetching items and clearing a cat litter box. Once taught, tasks can be scheduled for set times.
The company's site lists Flourish 1 at about 3 feet 7 inches tall and 44 pounds, with a 3.3-pound payload, a reach from the floor up to 35 inches and a 12-hour runtime. Pre-orders for units numbered 01 to 50 opened Sept. 29, with a $200 deposit that the company says is fully refundable until the robot ships, and deliveries beginning in December 2026. Flourish says the robot runs on-device, meaning on the robot itself. Its advanced AI features use the company's cloud computers, free for six months and then an optional $50 a month, or an owner's own AI chip.
Founder and CEO Antoine Marcel describes the product as giving people back time spent on repetitive housework. Families Fund, founded by Kartik Sathappan, led the company's pre-seed round, an early stage of startup funding.
Flourish has not shown how its 30-minute teaching claim holds up outside its own demos. It is also unclear how many of the 50 units will ship in December, and how well the robot performs on its own, without the extra computing power.