wan AIChef Ultra is pitched as an AI cooking appliance that tries to close the gap between “set a timer” ovens and outcome-based cooking. In the demo, you choose a dish from a recipe hub, load the ingredients, and let the unit estimate doneness as a live progress percentage rather than a fixed countdown. The UI shows a real camera image of the food and a real-time temperature curve while the control loop adjusts power and heating profile to hit a target finish state. https://www.global.wanaichef.com/products/wan-aichef-ultra
A key idea here is perception + feedback: an internal camera is used for ingredient recognition, and the presenter describes a sensor array (10+ sensors) measuring temperature at multiple points around the tray. Instead of relying on one probe inserted into the food, the system claims it can infer what’s happening across the cook cavity, then steer heat to avoid classic failure modes like overcooked edges and undercooked center. In practice, this looks like a closed-loop controller that continuously updates setpoints from live sensor data to manage heat.
On the software side, wan AIChef describes a self-developed “Zhurong” Cooking Large Model, with an Android-style touch UI and a recipe hub (the demo mentions ~1,000 recipes, with recognition for hundreds of ingredients). There’s also an app workflow for shopping: pick a recipe, generate a grocery list with quantities, then come home and execute the cook with one-touch start. For higher control, “chef mode” exposes parameters like temperature, time, and power so kitchens or canteens can tune a dish profile rather than accept a fixed preset mode.
Hardware-wise, the presenter frames it as a hybrid that can do both oven heating and microwave, but with more granular temperature control than a traditional fixed-power microwave program. In the video, a salmon cook finishes in 6 minutes 53 seconds, with the unit flagging completion at 100% and claiming the plate stays cooler than the food because it is monitoring temperatures across different zones. This segment was filmed at CES Las Vegas 2026.
Commercially, wan AIChef says it won a Red Dot award in 2025 and positions the platform around “device + recipe platform” for home users, plus configurable menu workflows for professional settings. The in-booth pricing mentioned is $3,999, with a show discount of $1,000, and the company highlights multi-step guided prep (ingredients, steps, then cook) as the main way it lowers the skill barrier while still aiming for repeatable texture and finish today.
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