2026 | Professional

MUSE Design Awards Gold Winner

Smart Ultra-Thin Flush-mounted Range Hood K1-Ultra

Entrant

杭州老板电器股份有限公司

Category

Product Design - Kitchen Accessories / Appliances

Client's Name

Hangzhou Robam Appliances Co., Ltd.

Country / Region

China

About The Entry

The Robam Ultra-thin Flush-mounted K1-Ultra Smart Range Hood creates a fume-free cooking space with cabinet alignment, meeting the demands of young premium consumers. With its redefined form, K1-Ultra can be perfectly embedded in a cabinet and offers super performance. With its ultra-thin flush-mounted profile, this range hood has a shallower depth than traditional European models, minimizing head bumps with cabinet alignment. Its reduced height compared to conventional side-suction units creates more cooking space and adapts to diverse kitchen styles.

The product features a radiant, crystal-inspired design with easy-to-clean shimmer glass that resists grease residue. The innovative auxiliary intake works with the main intake to trap escaping oil fume from multiple angles, improving exhaust efficiency by 22% over conventional range hoods. The K1-Ultra also separates and captures 92% of grease from oil fume into the oil cup rather than releasing them outdoors, significantly reducing air pollution. It achieves 98% normalized odor reduction, substantially lowering users' exposure to harmful kitchen pollutants.

It pioneers the industry-first variable-frequency high-suction "Kunpeng" air duct 2.0, with an air volume of 33m³/min and an air pressure of 1,750Pa. This achieves exceptional suction power and quiet operation, instantly capturing oil fume the moment it rises for a truly fume-free kitchen. Integrated smart technologies such as AI fume control, auxiliary suction to avoid oil fume escape, and fully automatic baffles further provide users with a more convenient and efficient interactive experience.

With an AI control system combined with new-generation active control technology, K1-Ultra can sense the stove temperature change at a frequency of 40 times/s with high-frequency buzzer sensor, and generate millisecond-level recording for automatic switching and adjustment. The built-in temperature sensing and constant exhaust can generate a wind resistance curve by sensing the changes of the public flue to adjust the air volume and pressure.

Modular design enables greater product diversification, allowing new models to share most components with existing platforms. This approach saves substantial development costs and dramatically accelerates product development cycles.

Credits

Suping Zhong
Mingqiao Luo
Gaoqing Jiang
Zhenni Che
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