The Anker SleepLab Pro is a bedside speaker unveiled at IFA Berlin 2026 that uses 60GHz millimetre-wave radar to track heart rate, breathing and sleep stages overnight, with no wearable and no subscription required, priced from $269.99.
What's new from Anker at IFA 2026?
Anker's Soundcore division used its IFA Berlin 2026 stage on 3 September to expand its sleep tech line-up to four products: two bedside speakers, the SleepLab and SleepLab Pro, alongside two sleep-focused earbud models, the Sleep 4 and Sleep 4 Pro. The SleepLab Pro is the headline device. It sits on the nightstand and uses a 60GHz radar chip to track micro-movements in the chest, translating them into heart rate, breathing rate and sleep-stage data (light, deep, REM and awake) without a ring, watch or in-ear sensor touching the sleeper. Anker says the radar can also tell two people sharing a bed apart, tracking only the data of the person who set the device up rather than whoever happens to be closest.
On top of tracking, the SleepLab Pro plays from a library of more than 180 built-in sounds, including binaural-style acoustic beats across alpha, theta and delta ranges, alongside a soft nightlight and an alarm, and it adjusts what it is playing to the wearer's current sleep stage in real time. Anker also built in a roughly month-long adaptive programme, reported as a 28-day cycle, designed to learn which combinations of sound, light and breathing pace help that specific user fall asleep fastest, then lean on those routines going forward. The standard SleepLab drops the radar sensing and keeps the sounds, nightlight and alarm as a simpler, cheaper sleep speaker. Anker's key selling point for both is no subscription, a direct dig at rival sleep-tracking wearables and apps that gate advanced sleep-stage data behind a monthly fee. The two accompanying earbuds, Sleep 4 and Sleep 4 Pro, are aimed at side-sleepers who want in-ear noise masking overnight; the Sleep 4 Pro adds what Anker calls a Track-Assess-Adjustment system that reads photoplethysmography (PPG) signals for heart rate and heart rate variability from inside the ear canal, positioning it as a wearable alternative to the radar speakers for anyone who prefers something they can feel rather than something watching the bed.
Why does this matter for Home Assistant users?
Right now, not much: Anker has not announced a Home Assistant integration, a local API or Matter support for either speaker, and Soundcore's smart-home devices have historically stayed inside Anker's own app ecosystem rather than exposing entities locally. Anker's separate MindBase smart home hub, also shown at IFA 2026, is the company's actual play for local-first control and Home Assistant compatibility; the SleepLab Pro reads as a health and wellness device sold alongside it, not part of that platform. If you are building a local sleep-tracking automation today, such as dimming lights or setting scenes at bedtime, a radar or presence sensor paired with one of the smart speakers already supported in Home Assistant remains the more flexible option until Anker confirms otherwise.
The no-subscription pledge is still worth watching. If Anker exposes even basic sleep-stage data through a documented API later, it would undercut the recurring costs that make wearable sleep trackers a harder sell for privacy- and cost-conscious HA users, since radar sensing that never leaves a local device is closer to the no-cloud-dependency ethos most of this audience wants. For now, treat both SleepLab models as standalone health gadgets to place on the nightstand alongside your existing smart home setup, not as devices you can wire into automations, dashboards or scenes.
UK availability and price
Anker has priced the SleepLab Pro at $269.99 and the standard SleepLab at $169.99, with reservations open in the US via Soundcore's website ahead of a full launch pencilled in for later in 2026. No UK price or release date has been confirmed yet, and prices vary by retailer and region once a product does launch, so expect a broadly similar sterling price once it reaches the UK rather than a straight dollar-to-pound conversion.
Should you wait for the SleepLab Pro?
If you already use a sleep-tracking ring or wearable and are happy with it, there is no urgency: the SleepLab Pro has not shipped, has no confirmed UK price, and its accuracy claims are untested outside Anker's own demos. If the appeal is specifically sleep tracking without wearing anything to bed, it is worth waiting for independent reviews of the radar sensing's accuracy against a wearable baseline before buying, since contactless radar sleep tracking is still a young category with few third-party comparisons published.
