Samsung’s spherical Ballie robot may be rolling off into the sunset, less than a year after its retail launch was announced.

Since 2020, Samsung has been dangling a yellow ball in front of us. That sphere is a robot named Ballie that Samsung has teased and demoed for home use, including serving as a smart speaker. Today, ...

At CES 2026, Samsung is showcasing a whole bunch of concept devices with an OLED screen. One of them is classroom robot, ...

Samsung first revealed Ballie several years ago at CES 2020 — only for the home bot to go dark, before reemerging with a new design at CES 2024. At CES 2025, Ballie once again took the stage, and ...

This summer, Samsung plans to launch Ballie, an AI companion robot that it has been working on since 2020. Samsung showed off Ballie at CES in January 2020, demoing a robotic ball that could roll ...

When Ballie arrives in the US and South Korea this summer, Gemini will ensure it has more advanced conversational skills than before. Katie is a UK-based news reporter and features writer. Officially, ...