Tewke has been part of the Google for Startups Accelerator: AI For Energy, since September 2025, being advised by Google’s experts in AI to bring the next stage in Tewke’s vision of making smart simple to every home.

TewkeAI is a new ‘view’ within their flagship home automation device, Tap, coming in the first half of 2026. Tap’s easy-to-install drop-in replacement for existing light switches enables people to very easily have a home automation system without the need to rewire. Existing features include real-time energy information and home health reports. Thanks to TewkeAI, Tap will now enable everyone in the house to ask anything and receive an on screen text response.

TewkeAI is powered by Google Gemini and provides an intuitive interface that everyone in the home can interact with to assist in their everyday tasks. Request a weather update, read the headlines, or get the answer to a nagging question, all on the OLED display. The user interface for TewkeAI has been designed to continue the premium design approach that users have come to expect from Tewke devices. This follows on from the initial preview launch of Tap and its being awarded the Red Dot for design in 2024.

As with everything Tewke does, privacy is front and centre, so with its new AI chatbot. instead of having a microphone that is always listening for a command word, the microphone only listens for speech when the user swipes to the TewkeAI view and holds the onscreen button. Having a voice chatbot on Tap helps democratise the accessibility of home assistants to all users within the household, rather than having to interface via a mobile app, whilst simultaneously providing more peace of mind than ‘always listening’ home speakers.

Rowan Dixon, Tewke’s Co-Founder and COO, said: “As Tap is a device created for everyone in the home, we have designed our first version of TewkeAI to be as intuitive to use as possible. We are incredibly proud to be announcing this ahead of its 2026 release as guests of Google, here at Slush.”

Piers Daniell, Tewke’s Founder and CEO, said: “Tap is making a real difference to how people live within their homes, from changing the way people interact with lighting, to saving energy in houses across the UK. TewkeAI is the next step in us bringing the future of home automation and energy saving to homes, to enable our vision of creating the future of a smart grid.”

The Tewke Tap was recently seen on British national TV as part of the largest ever construction project shown on the hit TV show, Grand Designs. Within the property, Tap is used to control all the home’s lighting whilst monitoring the property’s home health via its inbuilt air quality sensors and helps save energy via Tewke Tap’s energy ‘view’.

The first generation of TewkeAI is set to be available on customers’ devices in 2026 via Tewke’s weekly OTA software updates. Tewke are constantly innovating to create a smarter future and continuously working to bring even more advanced AI-enabled automations to homes, utilising their own in-house AI system.

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