Flourish 1: A $3,555 Home Robot You Teach by Phone
Flourish 1: A $3,555 Home Robot You Teach by Phone Open Source Factory · October 2, 2026 A $3,555 home robot that learns chores from your phone got my attention. Flourish 1 promises to collect shoes, load dishes and tidy the small messes that eat an evening. The first run is just 50 units, with December 2026 deliveries planned. That makes this an interesting early product to investigate, with some unusually consequential fine print. Flourish’s September 29 announcement . Image: Flourish Robots, official promotional video poster. The staged scene illustrates the product pitch; it is not an independent home test. I went through the product page, sales terms and privacy policy for this post. The appeal is easy to understand: teach a robot your particular routine, then schedule it. The harder question is how much teaching, supervision and paid computing sit between that promise and a genuinely free evening. What chores can Flourish 1 take on? The launch release lists picking up shoe...