Samsung made an AI fridge to cool and catalogue wine
Samsung is shoehorning AI into a wine cooler that'll help you catalogue your wine cellar.
If 2026 has taught us anything in the tech world, it’s that generative AI can worm its way into practically any device… even a wine fridge. The company has announced a new Infinite AI Wine Refrigerator that can hold 101 wine bottles across three individual storage sections that can be set to three different temperatures, so you’re always keeping the good stuff in the optimum condition.
But what’s so artificially intelligent about that? Well, there’s a camera that’ll recognise the name, variety and vintage of the wine. The appliance will catalogue the bottles as you insert them into the fridge, and inevitably update your catalogue when it’s removed for the purpose of consumption. Samsung says it helps you “manage wine that needs to be carefully stored for a long time.”
In a blog post published in Korea on Monday, Samsung explains: “When the refrigerator door is opened, the ‘AI vision’ camera at the top of the device detects the entry and exit of the wine bottle. When the wine is stored in the refrigerator, it recognises the location of the wine and analyses the label information to automatically record details such as the name, variety, and vintage of the wine in SmartThings’ ‘AI Wine Manager’.”
The fridge has an auto open door function that can open with a light touch or a Bixby voice command (“Bixby… wine me!”) making it easy to open with other stuff in your hands, like wine glasses. There’s a natural wood wine rack and in the centre there’s a compartment with can store your cheeses and nibbly bits.
The fridge costs 6,499,000 won (around $4,280 / £3,250) and is available in Korea now.
Chris Smith
