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HEKA · The Inventor of AI Mattress

A new standard for rest and recovery

HEKA is the inventor of the AI mattress: a system that actively senses the body, analyzes it and fine-tunes its support as the posture changes, finished with premium materials and an Elite ownership experience.

See how HEKA adapts
  • 8-minute read
  • Explore the HEKA AI Mattress
  • A private experience
Key points
  • Quality sleep is not defined by the number of hours alone; the body also needs comfort, the right posture and a stable enough environment.
  • Every body is different, and even for one person the posture and the points of contact change during the night.
  • The HEKA AI Mattress actively senses, analyzes, decides, fine-tunes and keeps adapting as the state of the body changes.
  • Behind the invention are more than a decade of R&D and an international team of experts in AI, sleep medicine and spinal medicine.
  • The HEKA Private Sleep Experience is a private session to feel the difference for yourself before you choose.

01Why does the body need a surface that adapts?

Every body is different. One body changes position during the night, too.

Quality sleep is not defined by the number of hours alone. The body also needs comfort, the right posture and a stable enough environment for rest to run its course without interruption.

The support of a traditional mattress, however, is set mainly by its materials and construction: the surface may deform under load, but it does not recognize the posture and choose a new way to support it.

Every body differs in shape, weight, the natural curves of the spine and the support each region needs. Even for one person, the posture and the points of contact change on turning from the back onto the side, or with the natural micro-movements of sleep.

A person lying on their back on a firm mattress, a dotted red line marking the axis of the body at the neck, shoulders and lower back
Firm mattress
A person lying on their back on a soft mattress, a dotted red line marking the axis of the body along the back
Soft mattress

On a surface with fixed properties, the body's points of contact move whenever the posture changes. The dotted line marks the axis of the body.

That difference opens a new standard for the resting surface:

Instead of the body adapting to the mattress, the surface of the mattress needs to adapt to the body.

02How did HEKA change the mattress problem?

From a surface with fixed properties to active adaptation

HEKA started from a fundamental problem: a surface with fixed properties can hardly serve different bodies, and the changes of a whole night, at the same time.

To create better conditions for rest, the mattress needs to recognize how the body is lying, analyze what each region needs and respond actively when that state changes. This is the foundation that led to the HEKA AI Mattress.

Developed on sleep science, body data and artificial intelligence, HEKA builds adaptability into the very structure of the mattress. Instead of stopping at an initial support setting, the system aims to keep adapting as the state of the body changes.

The structure of the HEKA AI Mattress taken apart: the soft surface on top, the zoned support system and the control module below
Adaptability is built into the very structure of the mattress.

03Technology and materials

Active technology below. Natural comfort above.

The HEKA AI Mattress is built as a complete resting system. Beneath the soft surface is technology that responds to the body. Above that system are layers of natural, premium materials chosen to perfect the feel of contact.

An active AI system

What sets the AI mattress apart is not extra sensors, an app or connectivity features. The technology beneath is built to take an active part in supporting the body, rather than merely recording or displaying data.

When the posture and the points of contact change, the system can respond to the new state, so the surface of the mattress is not held at one fixed firmness all night.

A surface made for comfort

The HEKA mattress surface combines natural materials chosen for softness, breathability and comfort over long contact. Giving natural materials priority reflects how HEKA balances technology, the feel of use and choices that sit more harmoniously with the body and the living space. The actual material configuration is finished for each mattress line.

A person resting on the quilted surface of a HEKA mattress, showing the softness of the contact

An advanced technology system need not make its presence felt. What the body feels is comfort.

04How the HEKA AI Mattress works

From sensing to analyzing, deciding, fine-tuning and adapting with the body

Sense

Senses the body

The system recognizes the state of contact between the body and the surface of the mattress: the distribution of weight, the curves of the body, the lying position and the changes that occur during rest.

Cross-section of the AI mattress with the body lying on its back: arrows show each support zone being fine-tuned up or down

A body that is always moving needs a surface that keeps adapting.

05HEKA: the foundation behind an invention

From how it works to a foundation you can trust

The AI mattress display with the R&D information wall at the HEKA Experience Center Sala
  • More than a decade of R&D

    HEKA has spent more than a decade researching and developing the AI mattress over several generations.

  • An international R&D team

    HEKA's international R&D team brings together experts from the Stanford Center for Sleep Sciences and Medicine and iFutureLab in Silicon Valley, along with other international research organizations.

    The research focuses on artificial intelligence, sleep medicine and spinal medicine, the interdisciplinary foundation on which the AI mattress is developed.

  • Science × AI × support mechanics

    HEKA does not merely add sensors: it builds the sense → analyze → decide → fine-tune → keep adapting cycle on a foundation of sleep science.

  • HEKA, the inventor of the AI mattress

    Adaptability is built into the very structure of the mattress, so that the technology does not only observe but takes a direct part in supporting the body.

06What the body can feel

The value of the technology is felt directly by the body

The goal of the HEKA AI Mattress is not to bring more technology into the bedroom. Technology only has meaning when it turns into resting conditions that suit the body better.

The surface of the HEKA AI Mattress following the curves of the body when lying on the backOn the back
  • Adaptive support by region

    The shoulders, back, lower back and hips are received more closely to the state of the body.

  • Pressure spread more evenly

    Towards less of the discomfort that comes with pressure points.

  • Keeps adapting as the posture changes

    It does not stop at an initial soft-or-firm setting; when the state of the body changes, the system responds to the new state.

  • A more personal rest

    Technology, materials and experience all directed at the comfort of the very body lying on the mattress.

A person lying at ease, cheek resting on the surface of a HEKA mattress, with a contented expression

The value of the technology is not in what the mattress has. It is in what the body can feel.

A person resting on the HEKA AI Mattress in a quiet night-time room, the system inside the mattress glowing softly

07HEKA Private Sleep Experience

Understand a true AI mattress and its adaptability, then feel the difference for yourself.

The HEKA Private Sleep Experience is designed as a private journey of discovery, where you feel for yourself how the AI mattress responds across several postures and states of contact.

  1. 1

    Lie in your usual position

    Start with the positions you usually sleep in, to notice the initial state of contact.

  2. 2

    Turn from your back onto your side

    Observe and feel the change as the shoulders, back, lower back and hips create different areas of contact.

  3. 3

    Watch the pressure distribution

    With your Sleep Consultant, watch the contact areas change and the system respond as the state of your body changes.

  4. 4

    Understand what your body needs

    What you feel, and the data of the session, help you understand your body's own support needs before you come to a choice.

This is not an ordinary mattress trial. It is a process in which the value of the technology becomes clear through what your own body experiences.

  • A visitor lying on their side trying the AI mattress with a Sleep Consultant
  • The AI mattress display beside the R&D information wall at the HEKA Experience Center Sala
  • A visitor talking with a Sleep Consultant by the R&D information wall
  • The Revolution of Sleep Health display at the HEKA Experience Center
  • A visitor lying on their back feeling the AI mattress at the HEKA Experience Center
  • The consultation area at the HEKA Experience Center Sala
  • The HEKA AI Mattress in the experience area of the Experience Center
  • The experience space with the AI mattress models at the HEKA Experience Center
  • A visitor lying down to try the AI mattress with a Sleep Consultant
  • A private experience session with a Sleep Consultant at the HEKA Experience Center
  • A Sleep Consultant accompanying a private experience session
  • The reception area at the HEKA Experience Center

A new standard for rest and recovery

Every body makes a different map of contact. Come and experience for yourself how the HEKA AI Mattress senses, analyzes and adapts to your own body.

08HEKA Elite Ownership Experience

Value that continues throughout the years of ownership

The Elite experience does not end once a product is chosen. HEKA stays with you so that delivery, set-up and use remain worthy of the value of the product.

  • White-glove Delivery & Setup

    Preparation, delivery, installation and set-up of the product to the conditions of your space and the requirements agreed with you.

  • A Sleep Consultant at your side

    One point of contact from the choice until the product is ready for use, so the experience stays consistent.

  • Companionship throughout ownership

    After delivery, HEKA continues to guide you in its use and to take your feedback under its current customer care policy.

A HEKA mattress fully set up in a modern bedroom

An Elite experience does not end when the product is delivered; that is when the journey of ownership begins.

09Sleep Consultant

Talk privately with a HEKA Sleep Consultant

A Sleep Consultant is ready to help you understand the AI mattress better and to prepare a private experience around what you would like to explore.

Portrait of Ms. Đặng Thị Ngọc, HEKA Sleep Consultant

Ms. Đặng Thị Ngọc

Private Sleep Consultant

0383 888 8188:00–19:00 daily

Available now

10Private Booking

Feel for yourself a rest designed around your body

The HEKA Private Sleep Experience is a private session in which you are guided to discover how the AI mattress recognizes the body, responds to each posture and makes the difference at the regions of contact that matter most.

The front of the HEKA Experience Center Sala
  • A private experience at the HEKA Experience Center Sala.

  • Guided by a Sleep Consultant.

  • Discover the AI mattress in several lying positions.

  • Learn your body's own support needs.

  • You are welcome to bring a companion.

HEKA looks forward to welcoming you in a private space, where the technology can be seen directly and every impression belongs to the person experiencing it.

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This page describes the design intent and the experience of the HEKA AI Mattress; it does not replace medical diagnosis or treatment. Features and material configurations vary by product line.