In CES 2020, Samsung announced Ballie, a robot with human-like interactivity that the company says understands you, supports and reacts to your needs!
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| Samsung Ballie! |
Real-life BB-8, Samsung Ballie!
At Samsung's Keynote at CES, Samsung electronics division CEO H.S. Kim introduced Ballie to the public. It is a small ball-shaped robot that is powered by AI to understand you, support you and react to your needs.
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| Ballie responding to the mess and activates the smart vacuum cleaner |
On stage, Ballie followed H.S. Kim across the stage and responded to the CEO with robot-like beeps and chimes. Near the end of the presentation, CEO H.S. Kim called on Ballie and the robot promptly rolled into the CEO's hands. A promotional video then played that you can watch in the embedded tweet below.
Meet #Ballie, Samsung’s human-centric vision of robots that takes personalized care to the next level. The small rolling robot, “understands you, supports you, and reacts to your needs.” #CES2020#SamsungCES2020pic.twitter.com/YzwgZN1Lgw— Samsung US Newsroom (@SamsungNewsUS) January 7, 2020
In the promotional video, Ballie was seen reacting to its Human's current needs that lead the robot to someday be an at-home assistant. In one instance in the video, the pet dog made a mess and Ballie responded accordingly by activating and ordering the smart vacuum cleaner to clean up the mess.
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| Small and round! |
There was no mention of when Ballie will be available for purchase nor was there a mention of pricing.
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