BSH Home Appliances at CES 2026: Bosch Unveils Personalized AI for the Kitchen and Launches First-Ever Cordless Stick Vacuums for North America

LAS VEGAS & MUNICH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan 5, 2026--

BSH, a leader in premium and luxury home appliances, is showcasing its vision for the connected home at CES 2026 booth #16203. The display highlights people-first artificial intelligence, world-leading Bosch Group sensor technology, precision engineering and premium design to make everyday life easier, more intuitive and more enjoyable.

This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260105998552/en/

The Bosch Group activation will also feature vibrant “The More You Bosch, the More You Feel Like a Bosch” joint campaign creative, challenging showgoers to “find their inner Bosch.” Every product category from the renowned brand – from dish care, cooking, laundry, cooling to small appliances – will take center stage in Las Vegas, reinforcing Bosch’s prominence across the kitchen and home.

“CES 2026 marks Bosch home appliances’ largest presence at the show to date, with our precision engineered solutions taking the spotlight in the show stand alongside celebrity chefs known from ‘Top Chef’ and Food Network, as well as bold creative from our ongoing national ad campaign that launched at the Big Game last year,” said BSH Region North America CEO, Darcy Clarkson. “We’re also highlighting our leadership role in employing practical AI in the home appliances space with the unveiling of the Bosch Cook AI feature coming to the Home Connect app in the near future, as well as our participation in an official CES panel on the smart home alongside other ecosystem leaders.”

Live #LikeABosch: People first. Sensor-smart. AI powered.

Making its international debut at CES, Bosch Cook AI is an intelligent new solution that combines agentic artificial intelligence, Bosch’s proprietary appliance technologies, sensors and a unique user experience within the Home Connect app.

The technology provides live, precise guidance through the app, helping users more easily create complex meals, such as cooking multiple steaks to different levels of doneness, simultaneously. Unlike static recipe-based tools, the system dynamically adapts to the ingredients users have on hand and can intelligently orchestrate multiple Bosch appliances in tandem to help work toward a desired cooking outcome.

Amazon and Bosch: First Espresso Machine Globally to be Powered by Alexa+ New Natural Language AI Technology

Engineering teams at BSH and Amazon have worked to fully integrate Amazon’s new Alexa+ generative AI technology with the espresso machine – enabling consumers to talk to their Bosch 800 Series fully-automatic espresso machine just as they would with their local barista.

Using natural language, users may now control every aspect of the already-advanced espresso machine to formulate and improve daily coffee routines. The AI assistant leverages its vast knowledge base, along with machine learning, to pass the command to the espresso machine. The result of this collaboration is barista-level drinks, with all the personalization of a neighborhood coffee shop.

“The collaboration between Alexa+ and Bosch on the 800 series espresso machine demonstrates how conversational AI can deliver sophisticated experiences for our shared customers,” said Amazon Vice President for Alexa and Echo, Daniel Rausch. “We are designing new tools to bring Alexa+ intelligence to more smart home devices, and Bosch is one of the first brands building on those experiences.”

Clean Beyond the Visible: Bosch Unlimited 10 and 9 Premium Cordless Stick Vacuums Debut in North America

Boasting Bosch’s exclusive MicroClean Technology, the new Bosch Unlimited 9 and 10 cordless stick vacuums can capture up to 99.9% 1 of dust – even invisible particles.

The MicroClean Technology sensor detects microscopic particles, down to 0.3 microns – while the MicroClean LED Ring turns blue to confirm when surfaces are really clean. The high-efficiency brushless motor – developed and built by Bosch in Germany – offers outstanding cleaning performance backed by a confidence-inspiring 10-year motor warranty. 2

Battle in the Booth: World-Class Appliances, World-Class Chefs.

The power and precision of Bosch appliances will come to life at the Bosch show stand, with celebrity chefs throwing down during live shows.

Intelligent Home Appliance Leadership at CES

BSH will headline two CES panels, where the company will share its unique perspectives on the smart home landscape as a global home appliance industry leader.

Darcy Clarkson, BSH Region North America CEO, will take the stage in “ The Latest in Smart Devices and Smart Home Integration ” on Wednesday, Jan. 7 at 11 a.m. – where he will join other senior leaders from across the global smart home ecosystem.

Michael Venus, Head of Connected Devices & Digital Products, BSH Region North America, will share his expert thoughts as part of “ Smarter Together: How Standards Power the AI-Driven Smart Home ” on Thursday, Jan. 8 at 11 a.m. – sponsored by the Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA). He’ll join in on an insightful discussion on how the Matter standard and AI are driving cross-compatibility and enabling more personalized and predictive smart home experiences.

Located at the Bosch booth #16203 in the Central Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center, BSH will have a significant presence alongside other Bosch Group business divisions from Tuesday, Jan. 6 through Friday, Jan. 9, 2026.

About BSH

BSH Hausgeräte GmbH, headquartered in Munich, Germany, with a total turnover of EUR 15.3 billion and more than 57,000 employees in 2024, is a global leader in the home appliance industry. The company’s brand portfolio includes global appliance brands such as Bosch, Siemens, Gaggenau, as well as regional brands, such as Neff and Thermador. BSH produces at 39 factories and is represented in some 50 countries.

BSH Home Appliances Corporation, headquartered in Irvine, California, is recognized for its high-end kitchen and home appliances, celebrated for quality and superior design. In North America, BSH markets its products under the Bosch, Thermador and Gaggenau brands – each renowned for their rich legacy and excellence. Bosch is celebrated worldwide for its precision engineered and efficient home appliances, while Thermador has pioneered breakthroughs that have shaped the modern luxury kitchen, as well as inspired culinary enthusiasts, since 1916. Gaggenau stands out with its avant-garde designs and professional-grade appliances, appealing to those who seek the ultimate in ultra-luxury performance and aesthetics.

BSH is a Bosch Group company.

Legal Disclaimers:

 

BSH Home Appliances North America unveils personalized AI for the kitchen and launches first-ever cordless stick vacuums for North American market at CES 2026.

NEW YORK (AP) — Filmmaker Pierre Coffin is the creator and chief practitioner of Minionese, but it’s a dialect — like most things Minions — that’s taken time to hone.

“I have this file on my phone of Indian dishes or weird words.” Coffin says. “People come up to me and say, ‘You should say that!’ and I write it down.”

“The hardest thing,” adds Coffin, “is just to find the melody.”

It’s been 16 years since Coffin co-directed Illumination's “Despicable Me.” He has made three more movies in the franchise, directing “Despicable Me 2,” “Despicable Me 3” and “Minions.” But the Minions, like Coffin’s personal version of Frankenstein’s monster, have often remained a deviling, even mystifying force to him.

Coffin, a French Indonesian animator who lives in Paris, where Illumination productions are based, has struggled with both the dictates of Hollywood franchise-building and the strange narrative conundrums of movies based around a supervillain and gibberish-speaking henchmen.

“That’s why I kind of disappeared from the series,” Coffin said in a recent interview from Paris. “I mean, the first one was really good. A bad guy becoming a good guy after contact with three little girls, I could see it. The second one was a little bit more shady because it was like: That guy who’s no longer a bad guy falls in love and there’s a marriage at the end. That’s literally how Chris (Meledandri) pitched it to me. My French sensibility threw up a little bit.”

If you can’t tell, Coffin — the still-mischievous 59-year-old son of a French diplomat and an Indonesian novelist — is unusually candid about the franchise he helped create. Even movies that he directed, he’s highly critical of.

The previous “Minions” spinoff, 2022’s “Minions: The Rise of Gru,” Coffin won’t even talk about because, he says, “I don’t necessarily like it and it’s strange to me.” “Despicable Me 3,” the 2017 sequel was the last movie Coffin directed, but he says he didn't even want to make it. Afterward, Coffin told Meledandri, the Illumination chief executive, that he was done.

“I told him: I got to move on. I did my trilogy, my prequel — I’m good. I can help with the voices, no problem. But I want to move on,” Coffin says. “I worked on separate things, but I always get pulled back by the Minions.”

The Minions have a way of manipulating their bosses, Coffin included. After walking away from them, he's back for “Minions & Monsters,” the third standalone feature for the “Banana!”-shouting little guys.

“All the other ones I had doubts about. I was guided into a direction that I did not necessarily like or understand,” says Coffin of the previous sequels. “But the things were a huge success. I was humbled. OK, there has to be something I don’t understand.

“This one is horrible because I’m thinking I really like it,” Coffin says, laughing. “And I’m thinking, man, maybe I just killed the franchise.”

On the contrary, “Minions & Monsters,” which opens in theaters Wednesday, may be the best “Minions” movie yet. In it, the Minions turn filmmakers. Alongside Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd, they try to make a monster movie in 1920s Hollywood.

The premise, suggested by Meledandri, was too enticing for Coffin to turn down. He even wanted to write the script, which he did with cowriter Brian Lynch. “Minions & Monsters” makes the yellow troublemakers something more than chaos-inducing sidekicks. They’re silent film stars who for the first time feel like actual protagonists.

“This movie has so much for people who were kids when they first encountered the Minions,” says Meledandri. “More than any previous Minion movie, it incorporates all of that wonderful silliness of the Minions but it's also a terrific story.”

Even after seven films and more than $5 billion in box office, the Minions are still revealing themselves to Coffin. They were, in the first place, a product of evolution. For “Despicable Me,” they were first designed like hulking thugs, then more like robots, then more like mole men. Coffin, Chris Renaud and art director Eric Guillon kept refining. Add in some goggles, overalls and names like Stuart and Kevin and, bingo: movie history.

Yet given that the Minions are impossible to understood, except for a word or two, they make for tricky protagonists. Hand them over to a new boss, and you risk making the Minions second bananas again. At the same time, long sections of uninterrupted Minionese can grow tiresome without some human interpreter.

“If it’s too long and annoying to the ear, we just kill it,” Coffin says. “All of these movies, we do until we find the little formula.”

Even just writing for the Minions isn’t a clear process. Coffin, who voices all the Minions, is accustomed to improvising their dialogue back and forth. (For the first “Minions” movie, he'd begin his mornings with two hours alone with a microphone before commuting to the studio.) Putting pen to paper came less naturally.

“Brian didn’t know how to write them,” Coffin says. “He tried writing gibberish. I told him, ‘Don’t write gibberish. I don’t understand what they’re saying. Let’s write them in English.’ It took us a while to establish that dumb thing.”

Coffin can sound almost parental about the Minions. The characters he gave voice to aren’t just in the movies. They're like mascots for Illumination, generated billions in merchandising. Not every treatment nails their singular nature.

“I don’t want to criticize what the others have done with the Minions, but when someone else does something with the Minions, I feel that they’re considering them creatures,” Coffin says. “But they’re not creatures. They’re creatures with a spirit, with a personality.”

Even he’s still figuring them out. In writing “Minions & Monsters,” Coffin wanted to think about the origins of friendships. He began surveying people about how they met their best friends. Many of the replies inevitably went back to when someone was 8 or 10 years old.

“That made it very clear to us: The Minions are kids,” Coffins says. “I discovered that on this movie. It dawned on me. They’re irresponsible, they don’t listen, they make a mess, they don’t listen to authority. From that moment onward, it was very easy.”

FILE - Pierre Coffin, left, director of "Minions & Monsters," and Chris Meledandri, CEO of Illumination, appear during the Universal Pictures and Focus Features presentation at CinemaCon in Las Vegas on April 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)