\n CES 2025: Samsung\u2019s new AI robot assistant Ballie<\/p>\n
\u201cAvailable 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,\u201d the press release said, pointing to the robot\u2019s implementation of Google Gemini.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s now 2026, and Ballie still hasn\u2019t come out. Bloomberg<\/a> reported today that the device has been \u201cindefinitely shelved.\u201d The publication noted that a company spokesperson called Ballie an \u201cactive innovation platform\u201d for internal use, which is noticeably different from referring to it as a gadget that people will eventually be able to buy.<\/p>\n \u201cAfter 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,\u201d a Samsung spokesperson said in a statement to Bloomberg.<\/p>\n The website<\/a> for registering to \u201cget the chance to be the first to meet Ballie\u201d is still up, and it\u2019s possible that Samsung could still release Ballie.<\/p>\n But for now, Samsung may not be confident that Ballie will consistently deliver its advertised features over a long period and\/or drum up enough interest from people who can pay the likely high price for a home robot. With many technology companies rethinking their approaches to chatbots<\/a>, AI in smart speakers<\/a>, and home robots<\/a>, Samsung may have decided it was more prudent to extract features from Ballie for use in other products. Ballie likely requires deeper exploration around how it can be more useful and reliable before Samsung goes to market\u2014if it ever does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CES 2025: Samsung\u2019s new AI robot assistant Ballie \u201cAvailable to consumers this summer, Ballie will be able to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-226528","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}