Midea Group's 2025 Report Card: 13k smart units, saving 700 million yuan

Source: China Business News

China Business News (Reporter Zhou Ziyi) On March 30, Midea Group released its 2025 annual report, achieving total operating revenue of 458.5 billion yuan, up 12.1%. Overseas market revenue reached 195.9 billion yuan, up 15.9%; net profit attributable to shareholders of listed companies was 43.95 billion yuan, up 14%.

In 2025, Midea Group, across fields including robotics, new energy, building technology, industrial components, healthcare, logistics, and more, built a second growth curve. During the reporting period, the company’s B2B business revenue was 122.8 billion yuan, up 17.5%.

Notably, Midea Group is transforming into an “AI+” technology company. By building two major hubs—“the home brain” and “the factory brain”—it has applied AI in a full and deep way across four core business scenarios: smart home, intelligent manufacturing, smart office, and industry enablement. It also plans to invest more than 60 billion yuan over the next three years in frontier scientific research.

Specifically, Midea Group has already assembled an AI R&D team of more than 400 people. Each day, more than 13,000 intelligent agents operate across multiple scenarios such as residences, offices, manufacturing, healthcare, warehousing, and logistics. Powered by AI enablement, Midea Group achieved efficiency improvements of more than 15 million hours for the full year of 2025, saving 700 million yuan in various costs.

In the smart home scenario, Midea builds AI intelligent agents for the implementation of appliances in the industry, establishing a complete closed loop of “perception—learning—decision-making—execution.” It has formed multi-dimensional proactive intelligent application capabilities across six major systems, including air, water use, and cooking. Through deep cooperation with multiple leading automakers, it has also enabled the deployment of human-vehicle-home interconnectivity scenarios. Currently, Midea Group’s more than 500 million units of home appliances across all categories have network connectivity. Globally, it has connected more than 140 million smart appliances and more than 150 million smart users, completing an AI-based layout for over 150 appliance product categories.

In the intelligent manufacturing scenario, AI runs through the entire end-to-end process from initial R&D to final marketing. Taking Midea’s washing machine Jingzhou factory as an example: its operations are centrally coordinated by the “factory brain,” with 14 intelligent agents covering 38 core production scenarios. Targeting key steps such as assembly, quality inspection, inspection rounds, production scheduling, and the supply chain, the intelligent agents complete traditional manual tasks that previously took hours within second-level response times, achieving average efficiency gains of more than 80%. Among these, the production scheduling response speed increases by 90%; factory intelligence has moved from “mechanical automation” into a new stage of “autonomous decision-making.”

In the smart office scenario, Midea has built a “living entity” that can sense and think. Within Midea’s iBUILDING digital platform in the Shanghai global innovation park, AI connects 39k hardware points such as HVAC and elevators and lighting, improving operations and maintenance management efficiency by more than 30%. For the elevator system, through machine learning, elevator capacity during peak hours increases by 25%. Currently, Midea deeply integrates AI algorithms with core HVAC technologies, extending the capability boundaries of smart buildings to industrial, healthcare, data center, and other industry scenarios across thousands of verticals.

Midea Group has not only embedded AI into a wide range of scenarios, but also uses AI to enable industries. In Midea’s healthcare segment, AI technology is deeply integrated into the entire diagnosis and treatment workflow. The “AI doctor” generated based on more than 4 million cases of cross-domain chest DR (digital X-ray imaging) data can free doctors up to more than 70% of their repetitive image reading time, providing grassroots doctors with a “second pair of eyes.” In Midea’s energy segment, through an AI dynamic strategy engine, it integrates distributed resources such as distributed photovoltaic, energy storage, and controllable loads into a “flexible调节 pool.” At the same time, AI algorithms are embedded into home energy power stations to enable automated “energy wool” harvesting.

In addition, Midea Group has also publicly announced five humanoid robots and is gradually moving them into factory applications to handle tasks such as product quality inspection and equipment inspection rounds, marking a key step in moving from the laboratory to real-world deployment. Midea Group has currently defined three major R&D directions for robots: biped-humanoid, full-humanoid, and super-humanoid. In the short term, it focuses on industrial scenarios, replacing repetitive labor and completing complex tasks such as precision assembly to break through bottlenecks in manufacturing efficiency. In the medium to long term, it hopes to expand into broader scenarios such as homes and healthcare, ultimately becoming the next-generation intelligent terminal that connects “smart home” and “smart manufacturing.”

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