"Available to consumers this summer, Ballie will be able to engage in natural, conversational interactions to help users manage home environments, including adjusting lighting, greeting people at the door, personalizing schedules, setting reminders, and more,"
"indefinitely shelved."
"After multiple years of real-world testing, it continues to inform how Samsung designs spatially aware, context-driven experiences, particularly in areas like smart home intelligence, ambient AI and privacy-by-design,"
"active innovation platform"
Ballie was presented as a consumer home robot capable of natural conversational interactions to manage home environments, including adjusting lighting, greeting people at the door, personalizing schedules, and setting reminders. The robot was described as implementing Google Gemini. By 2026, Bloomberg reported the device had been indefinitely shelved and Samsung characterized Ballie as an active innovation platform for internal use. Registration for meeting Ballie remains available online, leaving the possibility of release open. Samsung reportedly uses Ballie testing to inform spatially aware, context-driven experiences, smart home intelligence, ambient AI, and privacy-by-design, while concerns about long-term reliability, usefulness, and price persist.
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