Haier moves to upgrade its products

In the internet era, home appliance manufacturers are shifting to smart strategies at an accelerated pace. Haier Group, for example, has made great efforts to cooperate with internet giants in the field of artificial intelligence and smart homes to boost the transformation and upgrading of its products.

It has inked a strategic cooperation deal with search engine company Sogou Inc in AI. The two will set up a joint R&D team to explore terminal devices and intelligent products that can smooth interaction between users and home appliances.

They will mainly carry out cooperation in smart home application scenarios. Sogou's voice technology will offer support in the fields of phonetics, semantics and content for Haier's U+ smart home platform, as well as speech recognition solutions including the microphone array design and other hardware.