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CES 2026 Samsung: Samsung Electronics has revealed its vision for an AI-powered home at the First Look event, ahead of CES 2026. In the context of “Your Companion to AI Living”, the company detailed how artificial intelligence is becoming built-in across televisions, home appliances, digital health and connected services. Samsung also showcased innovations across home appliances with the introduction of new Bespoke offerings, large-format displays, audio and wearables to drive connected experiences like personalised health and wellness monitoring.

AI-Powered Bespoke Home Appliances

Samsung has launched a new range of AI powered Bespoke Home Appliances for those who want to make use of AI and get work done faster, better and more efficiently, premiering only in India.

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The Bespoke AI Laundry Combo, which allows clothes to be washed and dried in one machine, eliminates the need to transfer dirty garments manually. Samsung announced the Bespoke AI AirDresser, which imports an Auto Wrinkle Care option to also take care of clothes with minimum user effort.

One of the biggest announcements was the Bespoke AI Jet Bot Steam Ultra robotic vacuum. With a Qualcomm Dragonwing processor, the robot is equipped with an Active Stereo 3D Sensor and a camera to help it move around. It’s compatible with Bixby voice commands, ancommands andd also can serve as a home monitoring tool, which is consistent with Samsung’s goal of integrating robots into the connected home world.

New AI TVs & Freestyle+ Projector

Samsung also grew its 2026 TV lineup withcommands and the introduction of its 130-inch Micro RGB TV — the biggest Samsung screen to date. The TV comes with Samsung’s new Micro RGB AI Engine Pro for accurate colour adjustment and also supports HDR10+ Advanced, Eclipsa Audio, and the company’s refreshed Tizen OS. Samsung announced that the Micro RGB TVs will come with seven years of Tizen OS support.

The company also unveiled new ultra-thin OLED S95H TVs and the Freestyle+ portable projector. Samsung is bringing its Vision AI Companion (VAC) feature to all of its TVs from 2026, which allows for contextual voice commands and offers personalised recommendations as well as enhanced support for smart home devices.

Other features comprise AI Soccer Mode Pro, to improve the sports-watching experience and AI Sound Controller Pro, which separately adjusts crowd noise, commentator voices and ambient sounds.

Vision AI Companion Across Devices

Vision AI Companion is designed to work with all Samsung 2026 TVs, which include Micro LED, OLED, Neo QLED, Mini LED and UHD models, according to Samsung. The VAC can also analyse the content showing on screen and recommend similar content, music or even recipes, integrating other Samsung products in the home – including connected kitchen equipment and mobile displays like the Movingstyle screen.

Dementia Detection With Wearable Data Gets a Push

In addition to entertainment and home automation news, Samsung also covered the company's digital health roadmap. Praveen Raja, Vice President and Head of Digital Health at Samsung Research America, noted how the company is working to integrate data from smartphones to wearables and in-home devices as part of a shift toward preventive healthcare.

Samsung says it is pushing frontiers in early dementia detection by analysing long-term wearable data and also serves up personalised exercise guides, sleep coaching and nutrition advice based on readings from connected refrigerators. Health abnormalities can be called out to the Xealth platform, where virtual visits with care providers can occur.

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All health information, Samsung reiterated, will be safeguarded by both device-level security (Samsung Knox) and a system of network-wide security (Knox Matrix).

Samsung’s Broader AI Strategy

Samsung repeated its earlier claim that AI is no longer a siloed technology, even as it has become more of an inescapable part of company products and services. By deeply embedding AI into hardware, software and cloud services, the company hopes to provide richer contextual, proactive and personalised experiences throughout the home.

“With our global open ecosystem and cutting-edge AI model offerings, ubiquitous intelligence will be more convenient and accessible for all users,” said TM Roh, CEO and Head of Samsung’s Device eXperience (DX) Division.


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