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 smart location robot has made an quality astatine CES almost each twelvemonth since it was first announced successful 2020, but was notably absent astatine CES 2026. Unfortunately, its disappearance whitethorn beryllium because Ballie has been shelved.

In a connection emailed to Bloomberg, Samsung said Ballie is an “active invention platform,” and “continues to pass really Samsung designs spatially aware, context-driven experiences, peculiarly successful areas for illustration smart location intelligence, ambient AI and privacy-by-design.”

However, location was nary mention of the robot’s user release. There was a flood of AI robots astatine CES this year, for illustration Samsung rival LG’s CLOiD robot. Ballie, a agleam yellowish shot ball-size robot with a built-in projector and Google Gemini, would person fresh correct in, but it seems for illustration Samsung astir apt isn’t releasing the BB-8 look-a-like aft all.