If smart homes in the past solved the problem of “inability to connect” between devices, now the industry is answering a more difficult question: can AI truly “understand homes”.
On June 18, 2026, Xiaomi officially released and open sourced its future-oriented whole-house intelligent AI solution-Xiaomi Miloco 2.0.
Different from the 1.0 version half a year ago that required users to manually preset cumbersome rules, the 2.0 version based on the self-developed MiMo large model and OpenClaw framework has completed a reconstruction of the underlying logic.
It gives the intelligent system capabilities similar to “eyes, ears and brains”, covering general common sense, identity recognition, family memory and family tasks. This means that AI is no longer a voice assistant that can only ask and answer questions.
Currently, this system has realized multi-scene automatic responses without presets: when the system “sees” a child playing with scissors through a home camera, or an elderly person falls accidentally, it does not require the user to set any rules in advance. It can automatically identify hidden dangers and provide hierarchical warnings based on built-in “general common sense”; when it detects through face and body posture recognition that family members continuously work overtime and come home late, it will automatically lower the ambient volume, adjust appropriate lighting brightness, and provide voice care, truly realizing a non-perceptual intelligent service.
Xiaomi’s technology update is not an isolated case.
Looking at the smart home track in 2026, a clear industry evolution path has emerged: perception capabilities are expanding from a single voice trigger to multi-modal full scene understanding based on cameras and sensors; decision-making methods have moved from passive responses of “conditional triggers” to active butler services with “family memory”.
AI is changing from an application on your mobile phone to a real layer of intelligent infrastructure in the physical space of “home”.
This kind of system-level breakthrough that integrates large model capabilities into terminal scenarios is the watershed for China’s intelligent manufacturing to win the global market in the next stage. Relying on the mature consumer electronics supply chain and rich accumulation of user scenarios, China’s whole-house intelligent industry is already in the first echelon of global technology implementation.
Such system-level technical achievements often require a sufficiently professional platform for centralized testing and first-release experience.
If the cutting-edge technical architecture and code base still remain on the screens and parameter lists of developers, at the Global Intelligent Manufacturing and Electronic Products Expo held on December 3-5, 2026, these cold technologies will become real life scenes that can be touched and experienced personally.
This expo has set up a core exhibition area in Macao, which brings together cutting-edge scientific and technological achievements in the fields of robots, smart home appliances, automotive technology, digital health and other fields. The Zhuhai exhibition area has simultaneously created a dedicated exhibition area for smart home, linked smart equipment, smart travel, smart audio-visual and other special exhibition areas to comprehensively demonstrate how AI can truly enter every corner of daily life.
As the “debut platform” for China’s intelligent manufacturing to the world, the exhibition aims to be the “first site” for these cutting-edge technologies and innovative ecology to be inspected by industries, global buyers and the public.
Here, “AI lives in the home” is no longer a slogan, but a technological feast where the audience can enter the exhibition hall and immersively predict future life.
