IFA Berlin wrapped up its 2026 edition this week, and the show’s own numbers give a sense of scale: more than 1,900 exhibitors from 49 countries, all fighting for attention in the same halls. The recurring theme wasn’t a single flashy product category. It was AI quietly moving off the screen and into things you don’t normally associate with software: dishwashers, air conditioners, cat feeders.
Tech Funding News covered a similar shift at IFA Berlin 2025, when European startups used the show’s IFA Next stage to pitch everything from urban farming to early tennis-training robots. A year on, that pitch has turned into shipping hardware, price tags and delivery dates.
XPENG’s flying-car concept
XPENG‘s aviation spinout Aridge, formerly known as XPENG AeroHT, brought the most literal interpretation of “flying car” to IFA: the Land Aircraft Carrier, a six-wheel-drive electric “mothership” that carries a detachable two-seat eVTOL aircraft in its rear bay. Pull over, press a button, and the aircraft module disengages over about five minutes, leaving behind a four-seat ground vehicle you can drive home on a normal licence.
Aridge says it has around 7,000 preorders, a factory in Guangzhou already building pre-production units, and a price capped at roughly $280,000. The company is targeting first deliveries in China by the end of 2026, though Reuters has reported that full-scale delivery won’t land until 2027 while Aridge continues working through Chinese aviation approval.
At IFA, the Land Aircraft Carrier shared a stand with XPENG’s IRON humanoid robot under a “Physical AI” banner, the same category of hardware bet that’s pulled billions of dollars into humanoid robotics startups this year.
Dyson CameraJet toothbrush
Dyson‘s move into oral care is the CameraJet, a toothbrush built around what the company calls Gap Optical Targeting: a macro camera that scans 28 images a second to find the gaps between teeth, then fires a precise burst of mouthrinse into them. It pairs the camera with a dual-bristle brush head, an anti-gravity tank designed to keep flossing jets working at any angle, and a MyDyson app that shows live camera feedback during brushing. Dyson says images aren’t recorded or stored.
The CameraJet is part of a wider Dyson Dental System, launching September 1, 2026, alongside a charging dock, travel case, toothpaste and mouthrinse, for $499.
Miele Diamond G8 dishwasher
Miele brought computer vision to one of the least glamorous corners of the kitchen. The G8 Diamond uses an integrated camera, called AutoVision, that scans the tub the moment the door shuts and uses AI recognition models to identify what’s inside — a bottle, a stack of plates, greasy pots — before automatically adjusting the wash programme and detergent dose through Miele’s existing AutoDos system. A new hot-air drying system, ExcellentDry, is aimed specifically at the plastics that never quite dry on their own.
Connected to the Miele app, the G8 Diamond can also be told not to start until it’s loaded to a certain level, or not before a set time. The company says it will arrive in Germany, Austria and Switzerland in April 2027.
Neakasa Riko: An automatic wet-food maker for pets
Neakasa‘s Riko Fresh-Made Wet Meal Feeder skips the usual approach of just dispensing kibble on a timer. Instead, it grinds freeze-dried food and rehydrates it at the moment of feeding, with an adjustable water-to-food ratio so owners can dial in anything from a thick pâté to a soupier mix.
Riko can serve more than 20 small portions a day and holds enough freeze-dried food and water to run for up to ten days unattended for one adult cat, closer to how cats naturally eat in the wild than a single big bowl twice a day.
Riko first showed up at CES 2026 and launched on Kickstarter mid-year before Neakasa brought it to a press preview around IFA 2026 in Berlin.
Govee Sky Ceiling Light
Govee is going after ambient lighting with the Sky Ceiling Light, which the company bills as the industry’s first AI-powered mood-responsive ceiling fixture.
It sits inside the ceiling rather than mounted beneath it, aiming to mimic the effect of an actual skylight, and it’s built around Govee’s AI Lighting Bot 2.0, which lets users describe a mood or scene in natural language rather than picking colours and brightness manually.
The fixture puts out up to 7,000 lumens, a colour-temperature range of 1,000K to 10,000K, a CRI of 95, and a custom 478nm sky-blue setting Govee says is tuned to support alertness. It ships for $399.99.
Anker’s next generation of sleep tech
Anker‘s sleep push at IFA centred on the Soundcore SleepLab Pro, a bedside speaker that uses 60GHz millimetre-wave radar to track heart rate, breathing and sleep stages without a wearable in sight.
Over roughly a month of use, it’s designed to work out which combination of sound and light helps a given sleeper fall asleep fastest, and to keep adjusting its output through the night. It’s priced at $269.99, next to $169.99 for a simpler SleepLab without radar tracking, and Anker says neither will require a subscription.
For people who’d rather wear something, there’s also the Soundcore Sleep Earbuds 4 Pro: in-ear PPG sensors track heart rate and heart rate variability overnight, and a touchscreen charging case lets users check a morning sleep report, set alarms or play stored audio without reaching for a phone.
They arrive in November for $349. Between the two products, Anker believes sleep tracking moves off the wrist and either into the ear or off the body altogether.
ACEMATE S10 Pro: A tennis robot that plays back
ACEMATE’s S10 Pro tennis robot pairs dual 4K HDR binocular vision with omnidirectional movement to track incoming balls and reposition itself around the court, across five modes: Rally, Drill, Serve, Ball Machine and Battle.
Battle mode is the interesting one — instead of feeding balls at fixed intervals, it can simulate different playing styles, including defensive, attacking and heavy topspin patterns, and record results point by point.
Its new ACE+ SHOT technology changes the ball’s launch direction internally, rather than physically rotating the whole machine, which lets it switch placements faster while covering 180 degrees horizontally. Ball speed tops out at 75mph, ball capacity has grown to 100, and battery life is up to four hours, roughly double the original S10. It’s priced at $2,999.
TFN flagged real-rally tennis robots as one of the more interesting startup categories at IFA Berlin 2025. The S10 Pro is what a second generation of that idea looks like.
BleeqUp Rover: AI sports glasses that see more than you do
BleeqUp’s Rover sports glasses combine a 16-megapixel Sony sensor capable of 3K HDR video at 60 frames per second with a camera that tilts between -10, 0 and +15 degrees to match different riding or running postures.
The pitch is less about the camera itself and more about what happens after: Rover’s AI is designed to flag highlights, including moments like sudden braking, and stitch them into an edited clip without manual review, alongside voice commands and activity recaps.
The glasses also fold in safety and comfort features aimed squarely at cyclists: a walkie-talkie mode through the companion app, open-ear audio, and swappable UV400 lenses that block all UVA and UVB light. At 53 grams and $459, Rover is BleeqUp’s second generation of AI sports eyewear, building on the Ranger glasses it launched in 2025.
Midea’s AI air conditioner follows you around the room
Midea’s answer to the “why is my AC blasting an empty corner of the room” problem is VitaBreeze, which maps a room using its AirGrid Intelligence system and then uses person detection to steer airflow toward whoever’s in it, adjustable from a phone.
A separate ClimaBalance mode is built to dehumidify without dropping the temperature much, and an ECOMASTER 2.0 system makes small, continuous efficiency adjustments rather than one blunt setting.
It’s a concrete example of the broader shift running through this year’s show: instead of just connecting appliances to an app, manufacturers are giving them enough sensing to understand who’s actually in the room and adjust accordingly. VitaBreeze is due across Europe from early 2027.
