Social RoboticsSamsung shelves its Ballie home robot indefinitely
After years of demos and a missed 2025 launch, Samsung's rolling companion robot will not go on sale for now.
Engadget, citing Bloomberg, reported that Samsung has indefinitely shelved Ballie, the spherical home robot it first showed in 2020 and had promised for a summer 2025 release. Samsung said it would keep Ballie as an internal innovation platform and that testing continues to inform its work on ambient AI, home automation and privacy. Ballie had become one of the best-known examples of a big-brand home companion robot, so its retreat is a reminder of how hard it is to turn charming prototypes into products people will buy.
Source: Engadget
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