Flourish 1

What it is

Vendor

Flourish Robots · based in US

About the vendor

The seller is Flourish Robots Corporation, registered in Delaware. Its launch announcement is datelined San Francisco, and The Robot Report describes the company, founded in January 2026, as based in San Francisco and Paris.

Status

Pre-order: Orders or reservations open to the public.

Confidence

Unconfirmed Not established by any source we found, vendor or otherwise.

Can I get it where I am?

The vendor has published no statement about its worldwide rollout that we have found.

All tracked regions

“Not announced” means the vendor had said nothing about that region when it was last checked, on the date shown; “Not offered” means the vendor has said no. An EU-wide offer counts for Ireland, the Netherlands and Germany unless the vendor says otherwise for one of them. Prices are recorded in the currency the vendor published and are never converted in the data.

May it legally be sold there?

This is a different question from whether the vendor offers it, and the two come apart: a vendor can hold open pre-orders for a robot that has no current path to being lawfully imported. The site records them separately and never merges them.

• United States

  Unknown fcc-covered-list

  Whether the robot may lawfully be sold here is not established. We do not infer it.

  FCC's Covered List rule for foreign-produced advanced robotic devices took effect 2026-07-28. A domestic end product (US manufacture plus a domestic-component-cost share of 65% through 2028) is not covered. Flourish Robots is a US company, but no source states where Flourish 1 is built or its domestic-component share, or whether it has received FCC equipment authorisation, so whether the rule affects it is unestablished.

  Evidence: 6. Sidley Austin LLP, 7. Wiley Rein LLP

What it can do

Listed under Dishes, Tidying up, Fetching and carrying, Pet care, Reminders and scheduling, derived from the claims below.

Capability claims in the vendor’s own words, never rewritten into categories. What matters most is the label beside each one: shipped means sold and verified working, demonstrated means shown in a controlled demo, and claimed means asserted and not shown.

• Picks up shoes, clothes and toys and puts them away. Claimed Asserted by the vendor. Not shown.

  Evidence: 1. Flourish Robots, 2. Flourish Robots via PR Newswire, 4. Forbes (John Koetsier)

• Wipes tables. Demonstrated Shown in a controlled demo. Not verified in a customer’s home. How it was shown is not stated

  Evidence: 2. Flourish Robots via PR Newswire, 4. Forbes (John Koetsier)

• Loads the dishwasher. Listed in the launch announcement. The Robot Report says the first generation will not do dishes, and Forbes quotes the founder naming unloading the dishwasher as a next step. Claimed Asserted by the vendor. Not shown.

  Evidence: 2. Flourish Robots via PR Newswire, 3. The Robot Report, 4. Forbes (John Koetsier)

• Waters plants. Claimed Asserted by the vendor. Not shown.

  Evidence: 2. Flourish Robots via PR Newswire, 3. The Robot Report, 4. Forbes (John Koetsier)

• Fetches items. Claimed Asserted by the vendor. Not shown.

  Evidence: 2. Flourish Robots via PR Newswire

• Scoops the litter box and refills the water bowl. Claimed Asserted by the vendor. Not shown.

  Evidence: 1. Flourish Robots, 2. Flourish Robots via PR Newswire

• Throws away trash. Claimed Asserted by the vendor. Not shown.

  Evidence: 4. Forbes (John Koetsier), 5. AI Matters

• Tells you the weather and what to wear, and wakes you up. Claimed Asserted by the vendor. Not shown.

  Evidence: 1. Flourish Robots

• Learns a new task when its owner guides it through the task from a phone ("30 minutes, no code"), then repeats it when asked out loud or at a scheduled time. The vendor says a taught task worked 60% of the time a year earlier and works 80% of the time now, with 99% as its goal. Claimed Asserted by the vendor. Not shown.

  Evidence: 1. Flourish Robots, 2. Flourish Robots via PR Newswire, 4. Forbes (John Koetsier), 5. AI Matters

How it works

Within a task

Adapts within a task

The robot perceives what is actually in front of it and adjusts. If a sock slips mid-fold, it is meant to recover. This is what the AI-autonomy criterion tests.

How a task starts

Being shown the task

Descriptive only. A button, a spoken sentence and a schedule are different interfaces, not different degrees of intelligence.

Will it try something new?

Unknown

The vendor has not said whether the robot will attempt a task it was not validated on.

Each task is taught by laying out its steps in an app and driving the robot from a phone; a taught task is then started by voice or on a schedule. The vendor has not said whether the robot will attempt a task it has not been taught.

Human operator

None described

Nothing we found describes a remote human operator completing tasks for this robot. Note that the dataset records this as a plain yes or no, so “no” here means “not described”, not “established to be absent”.

Evidence: 1. Flourish Robots, 2. Flourish Robots via PR Newswire, 4. Forbes (John Koetsier)

Why it qualifies

A robot is listed only if it meets all four criteria. The evidence is kept so the criteria can be re-tuned against real cases rather than re-argued. How these are applied.

• Multi-task by design

  Met

  Performs two or more distinct household task types. Not a single-purpose appliance, and not one task described several ways. A task counts when the vendor demonstrates or states it, including when independent press reports the vendor’s own demonstration.

  Flourish lists picking up shoes, clothes and toys, loading the dishwasher, wiping tables, watering plants, fetching items and clearing a cat litter box. Tidying, dishes, cleaning and pet care are distinct household chores.

  Evidence: 1. Flourish Robots, 2. Flourish Robots via PR Newswire, 4. Forbes (John Koetsier)

• Physical manipulation

  Met

  Has arms, grippers or manipulators, and can pick up, move or handle objects.

  Two arms with two-fingered grippers and wrist-mounted cameras (press). The vendor gives a 3.3 lb payload and a reach from the floor to 35 inches; press reports 1.5 kg per arm.

  Evidence: 1. Flourish Robots, 3. The Robot Report

• AI-driven autonomy

  Met

  Copes with unscripted variation within a task: it perceives what is actually there and adapts, rather than replaying a fixed motion sequence. How a task is started is not part of this test.

  The founder says the robot "is designed to operate autonomously once a task has been taught". Flourish starts from pretrained models and fine-tunes them on each home, uses a vision-language-action (VLA) policy for the grasp, and says that "If a VLA policy starts failing, higher-level vision/language models can reassess the scene and help the robot retry or reposition." Each task is taught by driving the robot from a phone, after which it repeats the task by itself.

  Evidence: 2. Flourish Robots via PR Newswire, 4. Forbes (John Koetsier)

• Credible home path

  Met

  Targets domestic use, and has a public price, preorder or announced release window. Targeting domestic use means being offered to households (an order, preorder, waitlist or announced consumer release); a public price or sales to businesses alone is not enough. Pure research demos are excluded.

  Sold for homes at USD 3,555, with a USD 1,555 deposit that is refundable until shipping. Preorders for a first batch of 50 units opened on 29 September 2026, with deliveries from December 2026.

  Evidence: 1. Flourish Robots, 2. Flourish Robots via PR Newswire

Specifications

Published figures only, as the vendor stated them. Nothing here is computed, estimated or converted.

Recent changes

The latest changes to this record. Each was generated from the record itself.

• 2026-10-10 Flourish 1 now meets all four criteria and is listed in the catalogue. Sources: Flourish Robots, Flourish Robots via PR Newswire, Forbes (John Koetsier), The Robot Report

All changes

Sources

Everything on this page traces to one of these. Agents read sources in any language; a claim taken from a non-English source is translated and the original link kept. “Retrieved” is when we last read the page; “published” is the source’s own date, where it states one.

1. Flourish Robots Vendor · English · retrieved 2026-10-07
2. Flourish Robots via PR Newswire Vendor · English · published 2026-09-29 · retrieved 2026-10-05
3. The Robot Report Press · English · published 2026-09-29 · retrieved 2026-10-05
4. Forbes (John Koetsier) Press · English · published 2026-09-30 · retrieved 2026-10-05
5. AI Matters Press · Korean · published 2026-09-30 · retrieved 2026-10-07 Korean-language report of the launch: tasks including tidying, taking out trash and wiping tables, voice or scheduled starts, and the vendor's 80% success figure for taught tasks.
6. Sidley Austin LLP Independent · English · published 2026-08-07 · retrieved 2026-10-07 Law-firm summary of the FCC Covered List decision: the domestic-content test, the conditional-approval route, and the limits on changes to robots authorised before 2026-07-28.
7. Wiley Rein LLP Independent · English · published 2026-07-30 · retrieved 2026-10-07 Law-firm summary of the FCC decision: models authorised before 2026-07-28 may still be imported, marketed and sold, but may not be modified except for certain software and firmware updates allowed under a blanket waiver in place until at least 1 January 2029.
8. Flourish Robots Vendor · English · retrieved 2026-10-07 Vendor terms of sale: seller Flourish Robots Corporation (Delaware), prices in US dollars, shipping to the destinations listed at checkout, units expected to ship in December 2026 (not a guaranteed date).