Flourish Prepares $3,555 Flourish One Home Robot With Smartphone Task Training

Flourish, a startup based in San Francisco and Paris, is set to open sales for Flourish One, a $3,555 wheeled humanoid-style home robot that early adopters can teach new chores in under 30 minutes using only a smartphone.

Founder Antoine Marcel is targeting busy parents rather than factories, betting that per-home, cloud-trained skills and phone-based teleoperation will make the first batch of 50 robots a proving ground for practical domestic robotics. While most humanoid and mobile-manipulator startups chase factory or warehouse work where environments are structured and data is plentiful, Flourish is deliberately taking on the messier challenge of the home.

The company was founded in January of this year and represents another humanoid company coming to market in less than 12 months. Marcel's thesis is that every household's routines, layouts, and standards of cleanliness are too idiosyncratic for a one-size-fits-all generalist model, so Flourish One fine-tunes its skills task by task, home by home, using motion data captured from the owner's phone and AI models running in the cloud.

Antoine Marcel, Founder of Flourish, stated:

"The way I tidy my apartment is not the same as you do in your house. You're going to show it for 30 minutes how to water your plants. We're going to fine-tune an AI model for that... now the robot is able to do that in your house."

The Flourish One robot is built on a mobile base with six wheels for stability. Each of the two arms has a payload capacity of 1.5 kg (4 lb.), and the battery has been designed for 12 hours of arm operation. For obstacle detection, the robot uses a small lidar located on the base near the floor, while each of the two-fingered grippers has a wrist-mounted camera for manipulation tasks.

Flourish One is not waterproof and will not do dishes or wash the dog in its first generation. The robot has limited dexterity but is suitable for tidying, trash, and basic cleaning such as wiping a table, but not intricate assembly. To help keep the bill of materials cost down, the unit is powered by a Raspberry Pi, with cloud GPUs handling training of skill models and inference for higher-level behaviors.

Antoine Marcel added:

"If we were to put an NVIDIA GPU in the robot, it would immediately double the cost. That's what is magical with Flourish. When you are training your robot to water your plants, you just take your phone, move your phone, and it will move the arms. We don't need any more other hardware."