Ahead of CES, Samsung has shown off new AI-equipped smart fridges that use cameras to identify what gets loaded into your icebox. Then, it can use that data to suggest things to buy on Instacart. This tech is coming to new 2025 refrigerators that include screens and some existing fridges with AI Family Hub and AI Vision inside.

This all comes on the back of a larger multiyear partnership between Samsung and Instacart. However, The Verge reports that Insacart was already available on some Samsung smart fridges well before this partnership, and then it disappeared for a while to be reborn as this.

The idea behind this fridge is that it will begin to recognize what you order. When you use up an ingredient, the fridge will add it back to your shopping list. Samsung’s press release also hypes up the fact that this is your Instacart shopping list, so you should be able to re-order it from your local grocery delivery place with ease.

Beyond just editing and adding things to your Instacart grocery list, the tech uses AI-powered cameras to recognize 37 different food items as they’re being loaded into the fridge. There are also cameras inside, but since they can’t see in the drawers and freezer, it needs to watch you load the fridge as well.

The smart fridge will run this AI model locally, but you can also add items with the Samsung Food app on the fridge or your phone. This is an upgrade from last year when Samsung announced that its AI frigates could identify 33 items.

This builds on last year’s smart fridge innovation, where Samsung’s Bespoke line of refrigerators used the AI cameras inside the machine to suggest recipes based on what’s inside them.

Samsung has also recently announced a ‘Screens Everywhere’ initiative to bring smaller 9-inch screens to some smart fridges and a smaller seven-inch model to smart laundry machines and ovens. These small screens also support voice controls via Bixby.

Samsung’s press release says that the screens will showcase vital information, act as a smart home hub, and offer entertainment apps. While I’m not sure many people are going to be watching YouTube on a five-inch screen on a stove, I’m excited to see what Samsung has in store and something to control music playback via Spotify Connect would be pretty cool.

Samsung will showcase all these innovations at CES next week, so expect them to hit store shelves midway through the year.

Source: Samsung, (1) Via: The Verge