Miele gave the world premiere of its G8 Diamond dishwasher at IFA Berlin 2026, and the headline feature is AutoVision — an integrated camera that photographs the tub the moment the door shuts, then uses AI image-recognition models to identify what's actually inside: wine bottles, greasy pots, delicate glassware, plastic containers, and how full the load is. Based on what it sees, the G8 Diamond automatically adjusts the wash cycle, the AutoDos detergent dosing and a new ExcellentDry hot-air drying mode. It's an opt-in feature that ships switched off by default, and it lands in Germany, Austria and Switzerland in April 2027 — with no UK or US launch date announced yet.
What has changed: what has Miele announced?
The G8 Diamond is the flagship of Miele's new G8 dishwasher generation, and AutoVision is its distinguishing feature. Rather than the turbidity sensors most dishwashers use to gauge how dirty the water is, AutoVision takes a single photograph of the loaded tub and runs it through on-device AI recognition models to classify individual items and estimate the fill level (Appliance Retailer, September 2026). Yanko Design's hands-on at the show confirmed the system recognises specific object types rather than just detecting cloudy water — bottles trigger a dedicated BottleClean cycle with harder internal spray, greasy pots get increased cleaning intensity, and plastic items get more of the new hot-air drying, because plastics famously hold onto moisture (Yanko Design, 2 September 2026). Once an item is identified, the G8 appears to keep tracking it as that type even if it's restacked later in the day — useful for households that load the machine gradually rather than all at once.
Detergent dosing is handled by AutoDos with PowerDisk, Miele's existing automatic-dispensing system extended to work off AutoVision's load reading, and ExcellentDry is a new heated-air drying system with three fixed intensity levels, aimed specifically at the plastic tubs and lunchboxes that other dishwashers leave damp (channelnews, September 2026). Miele has been explicit that AutoVision only functions if the owner switches it on — it isn't active out of the box — which suggests a cautious rollout for a genuinely new sensor type rather than a fully proven one. Miele's Dr Markus Miele also acknowledged, in comments reported by Appliance Retailer, that loading the machine efficiently in the first place remains a challenge AutoVision doesn't solve on its own.
Why this matters for Home Assistant and smart home users
AutoVision matters less for what it connects to than for what it signals: appliance-level AI cameras doing genuine object recognition, not just crude sensing, are moving from concept demos to a dated, priced product with a real market launch. It's the same shift this site has tracked with Ugreen's HomeAgent hubs and Hisense's Companion Living vision system, also both unveiled at IFA 2026 — on-device AI increasingly makes decisions inside the appliance itself, rather than in a companion app. The important caveat is that AutoVision talks to the Miele App, and neither Miele's announcement nor the show coverage mentions Matter, Zigbee or any route into Matter-based smart home platforms — so there's currently no path to see AutoVision's load data or trigger automations from Home Assistant. The one genuinely useful automation hook Miele has confirmed is energy-aware scheduling: the app lets owners set rules such as “start once the load is at least 80% full, but never before 10pm,” or tie the wash cycle to surplus solar generation, echoing the kind of load-shifting this site covers in its Home Assistant energy monitoring guide — though that's controlled entirely inside Miele's own app, not via an exposed API.
UK availability, price and what we don't know yet
Miele has confirmed a launch in Germany, Austria and Switzerland for April 2027, but has not announced UK pricing, a UK launch date, or even confirmed the G8 Diamond will reach the UK market on the same timeline as its DACH launch. No price has been published for any region yet. It's also unclear how AutoVision performs with less common load types, how it behaves as the camera lens inevitably picks up grease and limescale over years of use, or whether Miele will ever open the load-recognition data to third-party platforms. Until UK pricing and a Home Assistant-relevant integration path (Matter or otherwise) are confirmed, this is a dishwasher worth watching rather than one worth planning a kitchen refit around.
