Samsung is leaning into a simple thesis at CES 2026: if your home is getting smarter, the next logical step is for the appliances themselves to start guessing what you need. At its Wynn Las Vegas showroom, the company will show off a refreshed Bespoke AI lineup that stitches together more onboard neural nets, new sensors and tighter SmartThings integration so the devices do more than connect — they try to act. The slate includes an upgraded Bespoke AI Laundry Combo, a souped-up AirDresser that can chain cycles, a WindFree Pro air-conditioner with new multi-blade airflow, and the Bespoke AI Jet Bot Steam Ultra robot vacuum that Samsung says can actually tell the difference between your cat and your spilled juice.

That pitch — automation that anticipates instead of merely responding — is exactly the messaging Samsung is pushing. Where previous smart appliances focused on remote control, these models are: weigh the load and pick the detergent, sniff the humidity and choose the cooling profile, or spot a puddle and decide whether to mop it up or go around it. It’s a comfortable, consumer-friendly spin on machine learning: fewer taps, fewer menus, and the occasional “it just knew” moment Samsung hopes will justify the subscription to its ecosystem.

The laundry combo is the clearest example of that logic. The 2026 Bespoke AI Laundry Combo keeps the single-cabinet washer-dryer form factor Samsung has been refining and layers in a Super Speed program and a new Booster Heat Exchanger to shave wash-to-dry times while beefing up drying performance. AI Wash & Dry+ leans on scale sensors and fabric identification to set water, detergent and tumble logic automatically — Samsung says it can identify five fabric categories and monitor soil levels mid-cycle to dial in aggressiveness. On the small comforts front, it adds Auto Open Door+, which nudges the machine ajar and circulates air after a wash-only run to reduce that “forgotten laundry” stink, plus a wider lint trap that’s easier to clean. Samsung will sell two interface tiers — a 7-inch touchscreen at the top end and a pared-down 2.8-inch LCD with a jog dial for the more price-sensitive buyer.

Closely linked to the laundry combo is the AirDresser, Samsung’s clothing-care cabinet that’s trying to move out of the niche and into the weekday routine. The new AirDresser builds on Dual AirWash and Dual JetSteam to attack wrinkles and odors quickly; an Auto Wrinkle Care mode promises morning-rush smoothing for shirts without a full ironing session. The feature that speaks to Samsung’s vision of an “orchestrated” home is Auto Cycle Link: when both the washer and the AirDresser are online in SmartThings, the washer can recommend — or even auto-queue — the right AirDresser program after a wash finishes, creating a hands-free garment workflow. That convenience, however, hinges on persistent Wi-Fi and account ties to SmartThings, which means more cloud-based coordination — and more data flowing back into Samsung’s ecosystem.

Cooling, too, is getting an AI facelift. Samsung’s WindFree Pro moves from a single-blade vane to a three-blade, “Triple Motion Wings” setup that unlocks seven distinct wind modes — everything from Max Wind for faster cooling to Long Reach and Surround Wind for more even coverage. Radar-based presence sensing lets the unit bias airflow toward or away from occupants, and Samsung’s AI Energy Mode claims up to roughly 30 percent energy savings in lab conditions by modulating compressor behavior based on usage patterns and ambient data. It’s a helpful reminder that “smart” can be framed as both comfort and conservation, but the headline numbers typically come from controlled testing rather than messy real-world rooms.

On the robot vacuum front, Samsung is doubling down on perception. The Bespoke AI Jet Bot Steam Ultra runs a Qualcomm Dragonwing processor and, Samsung says, uses on-device deep learning to separate people, pets, cords, rugs and other obstacles the way a human would — or at least better than the bumper-and-cliff sensors of older bots. New AI Liquid Recognition can spot spills of roughly half an ounce or more and either steer a mop-capable head toward a mess or avoid the area, depending on the settings. Mobility improvements — Easy Pass Wheel tech that lets the body raise and lower to climb thresholds up to about 2.4 inches — aim to reduce those frustrating stuck-at-the-doorway moments. All of that sounds great on paper; the obvious question will be how well the robot’s eyesight holds up in pattern-heavy floors, dim rooms or complicated furniture layouts.

There’s a throughline to these announcements that’s worth pausing on: most of the headline automation depends on SmartThings, a persistent Wi-Fi connection and, for some features, a Samsung account. That makes for a smoother demo in a controlled showroom and a bolder feature list in marketing copy, but it also raises the familiar tradeoffs — convenience vs. lock-in, predictive convenience vs. continual data collection. Samsung has been explicit about local processing in some places and cloud-assisted workflows in others; either way, the richer the behavior, the more telemetry the system needs to collect to learn your routines. For users who accept that arrangement, SmartThings-first features like Auto Cycle Link and AI Energy Mode will feel like magic. For others, they’ll be seen as premium automation gated behind persistent connectivity.

So what should shoppers and homeowners take from Samsung’s CES 2026 showroom? In the short term, expect incremental convenience: shorter cycles, fewer manual settings, and appliances that can coordinate jobs across devices. In the longer term, Samsung’s roadmap signals an approach to the home where intelligence is embedded in hardware across categories and where value will increasingly be delivered through orchestration — if, and only if, the devices have the data they need. The real test won’t be the press photos at Wynn Las Vegas; it will be living with these behaviors after unboxing: do they save time and frustration, or do they swap one kind of fiddly setup for another? Samsung will let the public see the lineup at CES (Jan. 6–9, 2026); after that, the more interesting stories will come from hands-on reviews, energy-use audits and thousands of living rooms that either adopt or reject the idea that your appliances should guess for you.