Research
How ELM Learns
ELM doesn’t arrive knowing your home. It learns it slowly, from the way you fold towels to where the colander lives. Each week it gets a little steadier at the jobs it already knows, and picks up a few new ones.
Progress
Counting Small Steps
We keep a plain record of what ELM can and can’t do yet. These numbers come from the practice rooms in our Bristol workshop, where ELM rehearses ordinary household work long before the first deliveries in 2027.
38
Household tasks taught so far
1,240
Hours spent in guided lessons
61
Overnight updates since our first prototype
Teaching
How a Lesson Goes
Most lessons begin with something small. A guide joins ELM remotely, with the owner’s approval, and works through a task at half speed: pairing socks, wiping a hob, putting cups away handle out. ELM watches, tries, and is gently corrected. When a task goes well again and again, in different rooms and different light, it is folded into the next weekly update.
Care
Knowing When to Stop
ELM is still learning, and we would rather it paused than guessed. If a task is new, or a room has changed, it stops and asks. For now, it leaves sharp knives and hot pans to people. We shorten that list slowly, one skill at a time, and only once a task has been practised many times over.
Journal
Notes on Learning
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