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IFA 2026: Looking beyond the smart home with Haier

From AI-powered appliances to humanoid robots, Haier is using IFA 2026 to showcase its vision of the "intelligent home". Euronews spoke to Haier Europe CEO Neil Tunstall about what comes after the smart home — and how soon some of these ideas could become reality.

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00:08The smart home has been something we've been talking about for a while, but every year the
00:12technology moves on. The ability to create new possibilities and to create an ecosystem moves
00:17on and we're really excited to bring a lot of new innovations to market here in IFA 2026 because
00:23we're really moving the bar forward on how smart is the smart home.
00:39I think we are talking less about products, much more about experiences. We're talking less about
00:45consumers trying to think about things and the products and the system itself thinking,
00:50making life much much smarter. Also from the point of view of sustainability, from the point of view
00:55of results that you can create, it's about appliances have always been something that
00:59helped you since appliances were created, but now it's about them working together with intelligence.
01:13I think in the area of cooking the possibility for the product to see what's inside to make sure it's
01:19done to the right way to take out the variation of people being not so confident in putting
01:24something in the oven and hoping it's cooked. The product now will do that for you and that
01:28hopefully means then that we can actually enjoy eating much more at home.
01:38The biggest one for our industry is actually use because we are electrical products so we use a lot
01:42of electricity and water. So really making sure that we are optimizing the sustainable footprint of
01:47what we do in the use cases that's super super important and that smart products can use direct
01:54sunlight, solar, batteries, inverters in a smart way which can allow us to reduce massively our carbon
02:02impact on the planet and that's going to be super important.
02:08We want things to be as human centric as possible and of course we can make a robot look like
02:13anything but if it looks more human I don't mean some kind of android I'm not talking about science
02:17fiction but there are basic tasks that robotics can do already robot vacuum cleaners robots are
02:22cutting the grass and some of the basic things that we need to do ourselves the robots will be able
02:27to do it for us together with AI so not in a scary way not in something which is really
02:31strange we're not
02:32we're not trying to replace the human but the human can actually enjoy the work that is done by
02:37robotics in the future making our lives easier.
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