At its product-packed NEXT event, Dreame talked up two new, AI- and automation-forward washer and dryer sets at an event in San Francisco on April 28, one of which was a wild mammoth of a machine, called the Dreame Luxury Care Center. It’s not just a normal, stacked washer and dryer—although the company announced a set of those, too—it features three extra compartments for cleaning small clothes or shoes, as well as a “garment closet” for freshening up suit jackets, with a see-through touch display. If that isn’t enough, it also has a compartment at the bottom that houses a Dreame robot vacuum.
In images that Dreame showed on screen, the left side of the Luxury Care Center would have two tiny washer/dryer barrels for things like kids’ clothes and underwear. Beneath those, a larger compartment specifically for cleaning shoes. And at the very bottom, a normal-sized, all-in-one washer and dryer for your everyday clothes.
As part of cleaning, Dreame said on stage that the Luxury Care Center will blast ultrasonic waves through the load, creating bubbles that then collapse, releasing energy that the company said would clean more difficult stains. It’s 2026, so there’s an AI component, too: the machine will feature an AI system that Dreame called “AI Lingus,” which uses a camera to detect whether clothes are truly dry or not. The company claims that AI Lingus can detect the temperature of clothes with 1-degree Celsius accuracy.
As for the garment closet side, Dreame said the Luxury Care Center is suitable for something like three suit jackets, which it would steam and dry with a heat pump. The company also said it “infuses” them with fragrance, although it didn’t offer details on how. Dreame didn’t offer much in the way of details about the little robot vacuum hidey-hole at the bottom of the machine, but what the company showed looked very much like one of its high-end models like the X60 Max Ultra Complete I recently reviewed.
When I tried to get an idea of expected pricing or release for the Luxury Care Center, a Dreame representative guessed it would be over $2,000, but said the product is still in development and that the company has no specific release date in mind. I wouldn’t be terribly surprised if, like the steam in a garment closet, the Luxury Care Center turns out to be vaporware.
What’s more likely to see a release is the other laundry set that Dreame showed, the L9 Pro. It would follow up the L9, a stackable washer and dryer that Dreame announced last year, but which has yet to be released, at least in the U.S. The L9 Pro set will share features already announced for the L9, like that its heat pump dryer can use steam for wrinkle removal and the washer uses onboard AI to detect how clean your clothes are.
The L9 Pro will apparently be compatible with the Z1, a laundry robot the company showed off at CES 2026 that Dreame says can drive around gathering laundry, then wash and dry it for you. I watched the robot pick up clothes from a small box and put them in the L9 dryer—the company didn’t have the L9 Pro set to show—that was all well and good, but I’d be much more interested to see how it performs in the chaos of a real home.
Dreame was a bit more specific about the launch window of the L9 Pro—emphasis on “a bit”—the company’s presenter said on stage that it will launch the washer and dryer set in most countries “in the near future.”
