 | Samsung’s Ballie is an AI-powered home robot designed to move around a house, follow users and help manage connected smart-home devices. The compact robot features cameras, a built-in projector and smart-home controls, allowing it to interact with its surroundings and connected devices. Samsung has also planned Google Gemini integration for Ballie, with the goal of making interactions more natural and useful for everyday tasks. Rather than functioning only as a smart-home hub, Ballie is designed as a mobile physical interface that can move through the home and respond to users. Samsung has previously delayed Ballie’s launch, but the project remains active as the company continues working toward bringing its personal AI robot to consumers. For the consumer technology industry, Ballie reflects a broader effort to move AI assistants beyond smartphones and speakers and into physical devices that can perceive and interact with their environments. The bigger question is whether home robots can become useful enough to justify becoming another everyday device in people’s homes. [link] [comments] |
Predictive technology: computational social science