Siemens’ Matt Edition

Siemens’ Matt Edition brings sleek elegance to the kitchen with a matte black finish that resists fingerprints and hides scratches. This refined look now extends across a full range of appliances—cooktops, ovens, hoods, and more—for a cohesive, modern aesthetic.

🔥 Smart Cooking Meets Style
The inductionAir Plus cooktop combines powerful induction with a built-in extractor and silent ventilation. Features like Fry Sensor Plus ensure perfect results with minimal effort.

🔍 Intelligent Ovens
Matt Edition ovens use AI food recognition to help you cook complex dishes with ease, blending high performance with minimalist design.

🌬️ Ultra-Quiet Ventilation
The wall-mounted hood offers up to 900 m³/h extraction with just 56 dB of noise. Home Connect syncs it with your hob for automatic control.

💨 Steam Drawer & Hidden Hood
The steam drawer supports healthy cooking, proofing, and reheating, all controlled via touch or voice. The integrated designer hood stays hidden until needed, adapting to your cooking with smart sensors and freeing up space.

Midea and Hisense Forge Strategic Partnership for AI and Smart Manufacturing

Chinese home appliance giants Midea Group and Hisense Group have joined forces in a strategic partnership, paving the way for collaboration across multiple fields, including artificial intelligence applications, global advanced manufacturing, and smart logistics. 

Leveraging their strengths in digitalization, both companies will work extensively on AI application platforms, focusing on the integration of AI agents in sectors like manufacturing and logistics. The partnership also extends to key initiatives such as green factories, industrial internet advancements, and global production capacity optimization. 

In the realm of smart logistics, Midea and Hisense aim to upgrade and enhance platforms by improving the synergy between production and logistics, refining intelligent warehousing systems, and boosting supply chain efficiency—all to streamline inventory management and optimize operations. 

ASKO DishDesigner

ASKO Smart Solutions Team has won the prestigious AI Innovation Award by Microsoft at CES 2025 in Las Vegas for DishDesigner.

DishDesigner is an AI-powered cooking assistant that will transform the home cooking to smarter and more personalized experience. Designed to cater to both novice and experienced cooks, it provides tailored recipe recommendations based on individual preferences, available ingredients, and cooking skills. This AI-driven platform, developed in collaboration with Microsoft Azure AI Studio, ensures that users can create delicious meals with what they have on hand, reducing the need for last-minute grocery runs and minimizing food waste.

“DishDesigner is more than just a feature; it’s a comprehensive cooking assistant that tailors itself to your needs and preferences. Through the integration of the ConnectLife app and Microsoft Azure AI technology with ASKO’s premium kitchen appliances, we strive to elevate the home cooking experience, making it more enjoyable for all,”

Hisense AI fridge freezer

Hisense introduces the BCD-780W refrigerator, featuring ConnectLife and a 21-inch TFT display that offers intuitive control and a stunning visual experience. Its AI functions include food inventory management, expiration reminders, recipe recommendations and voice control. It also suggests personalized recipes based on available ingredients and the user’s health profile. The vacuum drawer keeps meat fresh for up to five days while ensuring a 99.99% bacteria-free environment. The VersaTemp+ drawer allows flexible temperature control, perfect for wines and beverages. With its modern design and advanced technology, the BCD-780W redefines contemporary refrigeration.

Hisense AI washer dryer

Hisense’s Washer-Dryer 7S series brings AI to the laundry room, seamlessly integrating with the ConnectLife app for remote monitoring and control. Featuring a 6.86-inch TFT display, sleek design meets cutting-edge technology. AI Super Wash optimizes washing settings based on fabric type, water level and temperature, while AI Super Dry adjusts drying based on humidity. With an EU A-20% energy rating, the 7S series delivers efficiency and savings. Plus, a quick one-hour wash and dry cycle (*1kg standard load) provides a compact and convenient solution for everyday life.

Miele to use AI  Diagnostics

Miele is empowering people to take matters in their own hands with AI

AI Diagnostics, our smart feature we present at IFA Berlin, is now live for washing machines and dryers: The AI-powered feature provides reliable troubleshooting assistance. When an error message appears, the AI identifies the most likely cause and provides instructions on how to fix the error yourself. In the future, AI Diagnostics will be available for more appliances and will even predict disruptions so that preventive measures can be taken. This helps reduce service calls and optimizes the use of our appliances

Samsung@Eurocucina

EuroCucina 2024, one of the world’s largest kitchen events, kicked off on April 16 (local time) in Milan, Italy. At the event, Samsung Electronics demonstrated how it is introducing a new culinary experience that redefines the kitchen landscape by seamlessly integrating AI technology with built-in products released in the European market.

Andrea Berton, Italy’s leading Michelin-starred chef,

Samsung hosted a five-day live cooking show featuring five chefs. Notably, Italian Michelin-starred chef Andrea Berton introduced ways to simplify cooking for all by showcasing how he cooked in Samsung’s AI kitchen, which integrated Samsung Food — a personalized, AI-powered food and recipe platform for recipe discovery, saving and food ingredient management — with the Bespoke 4-Door Flex Refrigerator with AI Family Hub™+ and the new Anyplace Induction Berton personally demonstrated AI Vision Inside, a feature offered in the Bespoke 4-Door Flex Refrigerator with AI Family Hub™+. As he placed a potato into the fridge, it was automatically recognized through the internal camera of the fridge and added to a generated food list. Also, Samsung Food utilized the items in the fridge to recommend various recipes that users can choose After Chef Berton sent the recommended recipe to the induction cooktop and the oven, the temperature and cooking time were automatically adjusted on both appliances. While the oven handled the cooking process, Berton continued the cooking demonstration by following the recipe using AI Home, a 7-inch touchscreen built into the Anyplace Induction The chef highlighted the capability to send recipe recommendations to cooking appliances using only the ingredients in the refrigerator or a photo of the food. “Today shows how Samsung has made cooking more accessible for everyone,” he stated. “As a chef, I wish for more people to experience the joy of cooking diverse dishes with the assistance of Samsung’s AI devices

Samsung looks at Europe

Samsung has equipped its latest home appliances with AI, making them smarter and more capable. These products seem to be finding appreciation among customers as they’re helping the company sell a lot of units.

Samsung is looking to build on this momentum to sell a lot more of its latest appliances in lucrative markets across Europe. The company has already built up a significant share in its home market of South Korea as well as elsewhere, including the United States. Samsung is already the leading home appliance brand in the United States and it’s now looking for similar dominance in Europe, where the home appliance market is worth $25 billion, more than a third of the $60 billion global market.

Samsung’s out in full force at EuroCucina 2024, one of the largest events for kitchen goods in the world. It has set up a 964 square meter booth at the event to show off all of its latest appliances and how they work together with the SmartThings ecosystem to improve conveniences for clients Samsung has also introduced new products with features that fit European lifestyles, such as the AI Family Hub refrigerator with a 32-inch display and the Anyplace Induction cooktop with a 7-inch touch screen.The Bespoke AI Laundry Combo also has a 7-inch display that provides useful information as well as allowing users to take a phone call completely hands-free while they’re doing their laundry.

Samsung’s Bespoke Jet Bot Combo™ AI and Family Hub Refrigerators

Samsung Electronics today announced that its new all-in-one robot vacuum cleaner, the Bespoke Jet Bot Combo™ AI, and its Family Hub Refrigerators have been verified to level ‘Diamond’ by UL Solutions for their IoT security capabilities. UL Solutions Inc., is a leading global safety science company that evaluates hundreds of marketing claims each year, and one of their services, the UL Verified IoT Device Security Rating process verifies smart home devices for hacking risks and security levels. The Bespoke 4-Door Flex™ Refrigerator with AI Family Hub™+ became the first in the home appliance industry to gain the ‘Diamond’ level, and other Family Hub models and the Bespoke Jet Bot Combo™ AI also achieved the same verification.