SwitchBot has ambitions to be the AI that powers your smart home
SwitchBot's new AI Hub can interpret events captured by its cameras and use them to trigger events.AI could bring the smart home closer to the Star Trek dream: a central "computer" that runs your home. At IFA this week, SwitchBot - best known for its button-pushing robots - is debuting a product that lays the groundwork for at least part of that vision.
The new SwitchBot AI Hub combines local AI processing with a cloud-based visual language model (VLM) to interpret events in your home and use them to trigger automations, moving the company a small step closer to creating a truly intelligent home.
Paired with SwitchBot's home security cameras, including its pan-tilt indoor camera and video doorbell, the AI Hub will "understand" events i ...