Inside Dreame’s Wild Launch Event — Packed With Products No One Can Buy

Hundreds of influencers, media folks, and a fewer C-list celebs (sorry, Woz) filled nan cavernous halls of nan San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts past week. They were assembled for Dreame’s motorboat event, ostensibly into some America and a overmuch bigger ecosystem of products. Across nan four-day showcase, nan Chinese robot vacuum institution sounded an AI-wrapped future that extends beyond level cleaning to smartphones, smart rings, smart cars, and much robotic arms than immoderate feline would beryllium comfortable with.

What was harder to find were patient specifications astir what was wrong these products, erstwhile they would launch, aliases what they would cost. Dreame has expansive plans that span from hypercars to humanoids, and astatine nan very least, nan arena offered a glimpse of what it thinks that could look like.

The Verge sent a photographer to nan event, which ran from April 27th to April 30th, to spot what was existent — and conscionable really galore influencers showed up.

A crowd follows Steve Wozniak arsenic he demos haircare products astatine nan Dreame Next event. The Apple cofounder was astatine nan arena to talk individual computing arsenic Dreame announced its new statement of Aurora Smartphones.

The Aurora Nex LS1 was nan astir notable exemplary successful nan launch. A modular smartphone that lets you connect different modules, including a 115mm-equivalent telephoto lens, an action camera, a fan, a outer communications module, and a “Smart Agent Module.”

A exemplary displays an Aurora Lux, a bid of phones pinch bold designs, including golden plating and gemstones. There are 29 successful total, and immoderate of nan specs are being thrown astir — a 200-megapixel sensor, anyone? — sound impressive. But pinch nary motorboat day and minimal hardware connected display, it’s improbable we’ll spot these phones anytime soon.

A exemplary shows disconnected a gold-encrusted Aurora Lux, which will reportedly tally Dreame’s ain Aurora AIOS. This was demoed connected different companies’ hardware astatine nan event, and our world smartphone reviewer Dominic Preston called it “an Android tegument pinch a load of AI tacked on.” Dreame says AIOS will get later this year.

Dreame’s first EV, nan Nebula Next 01 hypercar, was connected display. The institution claims nan four-door conception car will accelerate to 100km/h successful 1.8 seconds, a declare The Verge’s proscription editor Andrew Hawkins calls “absurd.”

The Nebula NEXT 01 Jet Edition debuted astatine nan event. The conception car is equipped pinch a brace of “rocket engines,” which nan company claims tin accelerate from 0 to 60 mph successful 0.9 seconds.

Dreame’s caller statement of smart rings connected show astatine nan event. There were nary elaborate specs, pricing, aliases merchandise dates announced.

The Dreame Glow Ring will characteristic bosom complaint and humor oxygen monitoring. The institution besides showed an NFC ringing that tin enactment arsenic a integer key.

The Dreame AI Smart Ring is 2.5 millimeters wide and is designed to nonstop vibrating alerts. The institution says it will make its smart rings luxurious, featuring 18K golden and platinum finishes, paired pinch earthy diamonds, sapphires, rubies, and emeralds.

A show of smart glasses.

The VitalGuard 1 Smartwatch.

The Z1 Embodied AI Laundry Robot uses a multi-joint robotic limb pinch an AI-powered camera to put laundry successful a dryer. It is expected to autonomously prime up clothing, benignant it, wash, and barren it successful Dreame’s L9 washer and dryer. A video demo showed a early type tin of folding clothes. The Verge saw nan Z1 successful (limited) action astatine CES this year, and nan institution told america it will launch wrong 3 years.

The Apex conception robot lawnmower pinch a robotic arm. It’s designed to deploy nan limb to thief cleanable up nan gait and do different tasks, specified arsenic picking consequence and watering nan yard. A akin model was demoed past twelvemonth astatine IFA by Dreame’s sub-brand Mova. Dreame besides showed disconnected its caller A3 AWD Pro lawnmower, which launched astatine CES and is now disposable to buy.

The INNIX Aura R8000F TV features robotic arms that widen and rotate its exterior speakers. Techradar reports that nan speakers usage AI to accommodate nan sound to your location successful nan room. The tv is portion of Dreame’s caller mini-LED line, slated to get successful nan US this year.

Attendees demoing Dreame’s caller statement of Aero bedewed barren vacuums pinch steam: nan Aero Pro Steam and Aero Ultra. The institution besides announced caller entries successful its lower-priced L60 robot vacuum series. Featuring up to 35,000 Pa suction, hot-water mopping, and nan expertise to climb complete room transitions, these vacuums are disposable now.

The Cyber10 Ultra robot vacuum pinch an arm was first shown astatine CES 2025. This concept robot is designed to usage its pincer limb to prime up objects and to cleanable surfaces pinch swappable tools. One robot vacuum pinch an limb that will vessel this twelvemonth is Dreame’s X60 Pro Ultra. It was connected show astatine nan arena and features two robotic arms that widen its mop and broadside brushwood to scope into tight spaces.

Influencers, including “Anastasile” (top), effort Dreame’s caller haircare products.