WAN AICHEF ULTRA Named 2026 IDEA Finalist for 'Load and Go' AI Cooking
LAS VEGAS – September 19, 2026 -- WAN AICHEF ULTRA, an AI-powered cooking system, has been named a Professional Category Finalist in the 2026 International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA), presented by the Industrial Designers Society of America.
The appliance lets users load food, pick a program and walk away
Ultra is built around what the company calls a "Load and Go" experience: users place food inside, select a cooking goal, confirm the suggested program, and the system handles adjustments as cooking proceeds. For supported ingredients, an AI vision system can identify the food and recommend a program before the user confirms it.
"We began by asking which decisions people repeat every night and which of those the appliance could responsibly take on," said Stanley Huo, CEO of WAN AICHEF. "The change is not simply what the appliance can do, but what the user no longer has to do."