Cameras inside your ice box were just the beginning, with the next generation using AI to track your food and transfer recipes in your home.
You can thank the internet and consumer tech companies, because gadgets are coming for your appliances, your whitegoods, and food management of your kitchen.
Even today it’s of little surprise if there’s already a smart feature found on your air conditioner or washing machine, with you able to control some of those features remotely by phone. But pretty soon, your kitchen could get a little smarter, and AI could be the reason why.
A few years ago, Samsung started adding cameras and screens to both its fridges and ovens, and while the initial uses were pretty limited, this year’s changes aim to do so much more.
For instance, the first versions of the Family Hub fridge included a screen to act as a bulletin board of sorts, plus recipe look up and extending your TV to the kitchen. Then the tech grew to include a camera, able to show you what was found in your fridge while you were shopping, so you didn’t double up on food purchases and could use what you had, cutting back on potential wastage.
This year, AI will actually play a part with the camera, as Google Gemini becomes integrated in the Bespoke AI Refrigerator Family Hub.
With AI on-board, Samsung’s 2026 Family Hub fridge can recognise more than the previous maximum of 37 types of fresh food and 50 pre-registered items, expanding to what is now closer to everything your fridge might store.
Identifying what’s inside your fridge will mean a clearer list of what you have to use, and potentially providing the recipes you can use them for, which can in turn affect how you cook.
Armed with this information, you could be offered a recipe and have that transferred to the Samsung smart oven, which can use a camera to identify the colour of what you’re cooking and use that to determine whether the food is done.
It’s a connected kitchen, and it’s just the start.
Samsung will also have an AI-enabled Bespoke Wine Cellar, which will track bottles and labels, and basically provide a wine cataloguing system that updates as and when you take bottles out, or even as you add more to the collection.
While the fridge is likely a part of what Samsung Australia will release, Samsung hasn’t yet confirmed whether the Bespoke AI Wine Cellar will make an appearance locally.
Neither have pricing or availability just yet, though that’s normal in the world of CES announcements, and we hope to hear more later on in the coming months.
