Hearing
Far-field by default.
An array of microphones tuned for room-scale pickup. You shouldn't have to shout, lean in, or know where the device is.
The Hub
Always listening. Never intrusive.
The Bar is the device on your wall. It hears you across the room, answers in under a second, and stays quiet the rest of the time. One hub per room, one agent across the home.
What it'll be.
The Bar is the physical interface to Elysium — the device you speak to, the one that speaks back. Mounted to the wall, sized to disappear, designed so the conversation is the thing and the hardware isn't.
Speech-to-text runs on the device. Reasoning runs wherever The Butler runs — cloud by default, on your own GPU when you'd rather. Text-to-speech comes back through the same array that heard you. The room stays a room.
How it'll work.
Privacy
Wake on-device.
Wake-word detection runs locally. No audio leaves The Bar until it hears its name — and a hardware mute switch is the last word.
Presence
A line to The Butler.
The Bar isn't a relay. It carries the agent into the room — answers in under a second, holds context across the conversation, and stays quiet between.
In the moment
“Butler — how long does the chicken need?”
Voice across the room. Answer in under a second. The timer starts itself.
Built for the wall.
The Bar belongs in the room, not on a shelf. A flat horizontal piece designed for above a doorway, beside a window, or across the countertop edge — close enough to hear, calm enough to ignore. Hardware design is still in development; the first units ship to early-access homes ahead of a wider release.
Want early access?
We're shipping Elysium to a handful of homes first. Drop us a line if you'd like to be on the list.
hello@elysium-labs.ai