HUMANOIDS · SEP 29, 2026
Flourish Robots opens preorders for $3,555 Flourish 1 home robot
The wheeled two-armed robot learns chores you demonstrate with your phone. Only 50 units, with shipping targeted for December 2026.
By Riley Hart · 2 sources linked below
At $3,555, Flourish 1 is the cheapest chore robot on our humanoid tracker, but only 50 units exist and none has shipped. It is built for light tidying, not dishes or heavy lifting, and it needs a network connection for its thinking. Treat it as an early adopter experiment, not a finished appliance.
Flourish Robots came out of stealth on September 29, 2026 and opened preorders for Flourish 1 at $3,555. The company's release says the first 50 units are on preorder and deliveries start in December 2026.
The robot rolls on a six-wheel base and has two arms with two-fingered grippers. The Robot Report says each arm lifts about 1.5 kg, around 3 pounds, and the battery is designed for 12 hours of arm use. A small lidar near the floor spots obstacles and each wrist carries a camera.
Teaching is the main idea. Owners move their phone as if doing the task, and the robot copies the motion. Flourish says a new chore takes about 30 minutes to teach and needs no coding. Listed tasks include picking up shoes, clothes and toys, loading a dishwasher, wiping tables, watering plants and clearing a litter box.
There are clear limits. The Robot Report notes it is not waterproof, has limited dexterity, and runs on a Raspberry Pi, with cloud GPUs handling training and higher-level behavior unless owners use their own computer. The phone app was still in development, and founder Antoine Marcel framed the first batch as a way to learn what homes need.
Flourish was founded in January 2026, and the team is hand-building the first robots. The Robot Report says the company hopes to ship before Christmas, which is a target, not a confirmed date.
On our tracker, Flourish 1 sits on preorder at $3,555, well below Weave's $7,999 Isaac 1 and 1X's $20,000 NEO. Its per-home teaching approach is unproven at any scale.