Social RoboticsSamsung adds Google Gemini to its Ballie home robot
A partnership with Google Cloud was set to give the rolling companion multimodal conversation abilities.
Samsung said it would integrate Google's Gemini into Ballie, its long-promised ball-shaped home robot, through a partnership with Google Cloud. Combined with Samsung's own AI, Gemini would let Ballie answer questions, respond to audio and video, comment on an owner's outfit via its camera and offer health and sleep tips. At the time, Samsung said Ballie would reach buyers in South Korea and the US in the first half of 2025. The announcement showed how large consumer brands were turning to big language models to give home robots a conversational personality.
Source: TechCrunch
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