The project will initially focus on two high-demand use cases: in-home cleaning services and assistance for home-based eldercare. The initiative is intended to strengthen the Company's differentiated competitive capabilities and advance its transformation from a traditional labor-based household services provider into a dual-engine model combining household services and AI-powered smart hardware.

China's household services and home-based eldercare markets continue to expand and have reached a combined scale measured in trillions of yuan. However, the industry continues to face rising labor costs, recruitment difficulties and a significant shortage of eldercare workers. Most smart cleaning products currently available are general consumer robotic vacuums designed for routine use by individual households. The market lacks a purpose-built robotic solution that is deeply integrated with the workflows of professional in-home household services and community-based home eldercare. Leveraging years of frontline operating data accumulated through its household services business, E-Home has begun advancing research and development of its dedicated AI service robot, seeking to address the market gap for an industry-specific robot developed by a household services provider.

The household services AI robot is designed for two primary applications. In the in-home cleaning scenario, the robot is expected to identify floor stains autonomously and perform repetitive physical tasks such as deep floor cleaning and dust removal from furniture surfaces. As an assistive tool for cleaning personnel, it is intended to reduce physical strain, improve the efficiency of each service visit and help service outlets handle more customer orders within the same period. In the home-based eldercare assistance scenario, the device is expected to feature an intelligent voice interaction system supporting voice inquiries, scheduled medication reminders, routine environmental inspections and one-touch emergency alerts. These functions are intended to supplement eldercare services and help address the shortage of home-care personnel in China. The robots are expected to connect to the Company's self-developed cloud-based management platform, which is currently under development. The Company's headquarters and franchise outlets across China will be able to monitor device operations centrally, collect frontline feedback and continuously refine the AI models.