Anker is upgrading its world ambitions—with AI and a stair-climbing robovac system

You most likely affiliate Anker with portable charging banks that maintain your units topped up with juice by way of the course of a day (or week), however the firm has a lot larger ambitions—as we’re going to see at IFA 2025 in Berlin.

Anker Improvements, to offer it its full title, incorporates not simply Anker merchandise (now the primary cellular charging model on the earth) but additionally the eufy smart home range and the Soundcore series of earbuds, headphones, and audio system. It’s a powerful line-up, and it’s getting larger.

With eufy for instance, Anker is increasing from dwelling safety cameras into robotics and good printing. Living proof: Its eufyMake UV E1 3D texture printer is now formally essentially the most profitable Kickstarter of all time, elevating a cool $46 million on the time of writing. Who knew UV texture printing was so well-liked?

Championing a maker spirit

Anker Improvements CEO Steven Yang is among the key audio system at IFA 2025, and will probably be utilizing his stage time to set out Anker’s imaginative and prescient and values for the long run—a future powered by superior AI, robotics, and the final word in innovation.

“With our price framework and centered model imaginative and prescient, we’re championing a Maker spirit at Anker — making a playground the place our groups can push boundaries and outline the subsequent technology of clever client expertise,” says Yang. “This isn’t about expertise for its personal sake—it’s about fixing actual challenges for shoppers and igniting prospects that make life less complicated.”

Communicate to the remainder of the crew at Anker Improvements—which is now greater than 5,000 folks throughout greater than 100 international locations, most of whom are concerned in analysis and improvement—and so they’ll inform you there are three key values driving all the pieces on the firm, together with the brand new merchandise at IFA 2025.

These values are to start out from first ideas and work from there, slightly than following conference, to hunt the final word in elevating requirements and discovering long-term resolutions, and to develop collectively—sharing success with customers and companions, in a approach that’s honest and sustainable, and that may deliver everybody ahead.

What’s new at IFA 2025

There’s a lot to speak about relating to new Anker merchandise at IFA 2025. First up is the eufy Marswalker, which provides your robovac the power to rise up and down stairs, with tracked drive, steadiness management, 3D mapping and auto-floor detection. For the primary time you’ll be able to clear your entire home with the contact of a button.

This will probably be demonstrated within the eufy Robotic Vacuum Omni S2, which can also be the world’s first robovac with HydroJet and AeroTurbo applied sciences included. These deep-cleaning methods, with as much as 30kPa suction, draw up filth and pet fibers from the deepest reaches of carpets, whereas additionally successfully wiping out stains from exhausting flooring. It’s coming later this yr in Europe, with worldwide availability in January.

Then we’ve acquired the eufy Safety AI Core, a model new, large-model-powered, AI dwelling safety system. The thought is it can’t simply acknowledge what’s taking place, but additionally acknowledge and predict intent: Meaning it will possibly use lights, sirens, and voice alerts if one thing dangerous is occurring, and even dispatch ExpertSecure personnel.

And if the AI can inform all is nicely and is prone to keep that approach—primarily based on coaching from greater than 100 real-world situations—then the variety of false alarms you get in your cellphone get minimize down. It’s a perennial drawback with dwelling safety methods, the problem of too many pointless alerts, however eufy might have lastly solved it with AI.

One of many cameras that AI Core will probably be coming to is the model new eufyCam S4, additionally unveiled at IFA 2025. There’s lots to love with this machine, the primary DIY hybrid digicam eufy has put out: A 4K fastened lens mixed with twin 2K pan-tilt-zoom lenses, offering the final word in flexibility, panoramic protection, and facial element. Pre-sales are opening up at $299.

In relation to the Soundcore sub-brand, Anker is unveiling the Nebula X1 Professional, the primary transportable projector with each Dolby Imaginative and prescient and Dolby Atmos for a top-tier audio and video expertise. The triple-laser projector affords a 4K decision, 3,500 ANSI lumens brightness, adaptive distinction, and 110 % Rec.2020 colour protection to tempt you into a purchase order.

There’s additionally a retractable deal with and wheels to enhance portability, twin 5.25-inch subwoofers to get residing room-level sound in every single place you go, and IP43 mud and water resistance so that you don’t should stress an excessive amount of about taking it outdoors. The Nebula X1 Professional launches on Kickstarter on September 23, for $4,000-$5,000.

And there’s a brand new Anker-branded product at IFA 2025 too: The Anker SOLIX Solarbank Multisystem and Energy Dock. It brings with it as much as 4.8kW AC output, 14kW PV enter, and 64.5kWh storage, guaranteeing you all the time have energy for all your units in every single place you go (as much as 4 Solarbank models can hook up with the Energy Dock). With plug-and-play DIY upgrades and twin EV charger ports, it might be essentially the most versatile solar-powered energy station Anker has put out but—including to its standing because the world’s #1 photo voltaic balcony resolution.

As per Anker’s calculations, it can save you as much as 80 % on electrical energy payments, and the system may pay for itself in 4 years (plus, the semi-DIY set up strategy cuts set up prices by 85 % and future-proofs properties with twin EV charging ports). It’s launching in Germany first, earlier than rolling out extra extensively.

The longer term for Anker

We will positively anticipate a give attention to robotics and enormous AI fashions within the years forward (as with the Safety AI Core system), and that’s going to result in smarter merchandise in addition to extra product classes throughout Anker, eufy, and Soundcore. Anker says it’s dedicated to enthusiastic about the tip factors for these applied sciences, even when returns aren’t speedy.

In different phrases, a few of Anker’s imaginative and prescient—which the corporate describes as involving “a playground for makers” (beginning with 3D UV printers, however going a lot additional too)—might not be realized till years down the road. It’s about producing {hardware} and companion apps that aren’t simply smarter, but additionally safer and extra artistic, because the AI period continues to rework expertise.

Whereas there’s a restricted quantity of AI you’ll be able to stuff into a transportable cellphone charger, Anker isn’t taking its place as a multi-billion greenback world firm as a right: On prime of the brand new merchandise getting their grand unveiling on the IFA 2025 present, be careful for much more innovation and experimentation sooner or later.

It’s set to construct on speedy current enterprise development: As per the most recent monetary reviews, the corporate’s income was as much as 24.71 billion yuan in 2024, a rise of 41.14 % on the yr earlier than. Web revenue was as much as 2.114 billion yuan, up 30.93 %.