Xiaomi is working on a machine that freshens clothes without water. You hang a coat or shirt inside, and it removes odors, wrinkles, and germs. Xiaomi has not said how it works, what it costs, or when it will ship.
What Xiaomi Announced
Shan Lianyu, who runs Xiaomi’s large home appliance division, posted a demand survey on Weibo shortly before November 9, 2026. Kuai Ke Ji reported it first, and Sina Tech republished the story. Shan described clothes that were worn once and aren’t dirty, yet smell or look creased by the next morning. The planned machine is meant for those clothes. It will not remove stains, so it sits alongside a washer instead of replacing one.
Who Would Use It
A winter coat after a hot pot dinner is the obvious case, since it smells strongly but isn’t dirty. Suits and shirts are the other one. They crease after a wear or two, and nobody enjoys ironing five minutes before leaving the house.
What the Poll Shows
Odor removal leads with 66 votes, followed by wrinkle removal with 60 and germ and mite removal with 57. Reshaping suits and coats got 37 votes, and drying got 31. Voters wanted odor removal mainly for jackets that pick up smoke or food smells. They wanted wrinkle removal for shirts and suit trousers, and mite removal for coats, pillows, and stuffed toys. A few said they had no use for the machine and just wash everything.
The numbers come from a screenshot of a Weibo poll, so they may have changed. They also reflect Xiaomi’s followers, not the wider market.
What Is Still Unknown
Xiaomi has not shared the design, working principle, capacity, power rating, price, or launch date. Whether it removes odors, wrinkles, and germs well is untested.
How It Compares
Steam-based garment care cabinets already exist from other brands. Xiaomi’s own Mijia front-load washers include a “Refresh care” program, which the company says removes odors and wrinkles from one to three shirts, based on its internal lab tests. The open question is whether a dedicated hanging unit does that job better than a steamer or a washer’s steam cycle, and that can’t be answered until it ships.
