# Ballie at Seoul: deployment

Canonical ID: `002236e3-2fb2-4c5a-a064-6b2f64dd9ae0`

Samsung Ballie home robot: honest-absence on field deployment. Announced at CES 2024/2025 but no commercial home deployment confirmed as of June 2026. Consumer pre-order or beta status only.

**Trust tier:** Catalog entry · 1 source · not yet field-verified

_Last updated: 2026-06-07_

- **Slug:** samsung-ballie-honest-absence
- **Status:** operational
- **Model:** [Ballie](/models/samsung-ballie-robot.md) (id: `48822166-d652-4b93-92c9-1d62acd20b54`)
- **Company:** [Samsung Electronics](/companies/samsung-ballie.md) (id: `f06365e0-b2fb-4610-aa87-f49c48ee52cf`)
- **Location:** [Seoul](/locations/seoul-south-korea.md) (id: `34eb76e2-74a0-464c-94e9-26a61eca1614`)

## Verification log (0, append-only)

_No verifications recorded._

## Sources (1)

1. https://news.samsung.com/

## Common questions

### What is the Ballie deployment at Seoul?

Ballie, built by Samsung Electronics, is recorded as a deployment at Seoul on the DEPLOY registry. Samsung Electronics operates the deployment directly.

### Who operates Ballie at Seoul?

Samsung Electronics, the manufacturer of Ballie, operates this deployment directly. This is a maker-deploys-its-own-product arrangement rather than a customer pilot.

### Have there been incidents at the Ballie deployment at Seoul?

No active incidents affecting this deployment are recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Absence of recorded incidents is not a guarantee no incident occurred; DEPLOY records only sourced incidents and suppresses retracted ones.


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