The year 2026 is regarded by the industry as the breakout year for AI-native small household appliances. AI technology has been fully implemented across the entire sectors of cooking, cleaning, and personal care, resulting in a differentiated pattern where the overall market declines while the intelligent categories experience high growth. According to data from Avalon Cloud Network, in the first half of the year, the market size of small household appliances equipped with AI algorithms increased by nearly 60% year-on-year, with the penetration rate exceeding 35%. During the National Day holiday, the sales of AI small household appliances in physical stores of Suning and JD increased by 42% year-on-year, becoming the main force for replacement purchases. reported.

Product innovation has accelerated its implementation： Midea's AI rice cooker can identify the type of rice and automatically match the heating curve， Tianske's intelligent cooking machine can achieve automatic cooking throughout the process， and personal care brands have launched AI skin testing and intelligent temperature-adjusting hair dryer devices. Leading home appliance enterprises have built an all-household interconnection ecosystem， and small household appliances have been integrated into the HarmonyOS and MiHome systems to achieve multi-device scene interconnection. IDC predicts that by the end of the year， the penetration rate of AI small household appliances will exceed 40%， and health intelligence， automatic cleaning， and personalized one-person dining products will continue to widen the growth gap. Intelligent transformation has become the core path for enterprises to break through.