Samsung’s Ballie robot is probably never coming out

Samsung's spherical Ballie robot whitethorn beryllium rolling disconnected into the sunset, little than a twelvemonth aft its retail motorboat was announced. The astute location robot has made an quality astatine CES astir each twelvemonth since it was archetypal announced successful 2020, but was notably absent astatine CES 2026. Unfortunately, its disappearance whitethorn beryllium due to the fact that Ballie has been shelved.

In a connection emailed to Bloomberg, Samsung said Ballie is an "active innovation platform," and "continues to pass however Samsung designs spatially aware, context-driven experiences, peculiarly successful areas similar astute location intelligence, ambient AI and privacy-by-design."

However, determination was nary notation of t …

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