Meet Flourish One, the Raspberry Pi-powered humanoid built for busy parents
Flourish One is now available. The company is promising an easy-to-use training interface. | Credit: Flourish Flourish, a startup straddling 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. Aiming squarely at busy parents rather than factories, founder Antoine Marcel is betting that per-home, cloud-trained skills and phone-based teleoperation will make t
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A startup is releasing a wheeled humanoid robot designed for home use, powered by a Raspberry Pi processor and priced at $3,555. The robot can be trained by busy parents to perform household tasks like tidying and basic cleaning in under 30 minutes using only a smartphone app that captures the user's movements. Rather than pursuing factory work like most robotics companies, this approach relies on cloud-based AI models that are fine-tuned for each individual household's specific routines and layout, since homes are too different for a one-size-fits-all robot. The company is hand-building an initial batch of 50 units to test how practical domestic robotics can be outside of controlled laboratory settings.
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