The brief

Analyst view

• Flowstate beta launched May 2023 with Comau as the first industrial partner for testing and validation.
• In November 2025, announced joint venture with Foxconn to deploy intelligent robots in US factories for assembly and inspection.
• Feb 2026: moved out of Alphabet's Other Bets into Google, working closely with Google DeepMind.

Technical approach

As reported

Low-code

Behavior trees replace textual code

Flowstate uses flowchart-inspired behavior trees, letting engineers build robot workflows visually without textual code.

Cloud-native

Simulation in the browser before deployment

The platform simulates robot cells in the web browser using Gazebo, so developers test solutions without hardware.

Modular

Reusable AI-powered skills

Developers encode domain-specific skills (pose estimation, insertion, force control, path planning) as reusable modules.

AI-first

Perception and reasoning

Models trained on robot data help with vision, manipulation and reasoning about task constraints without hand-coded rules.

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