Robot model
Ballie
Rolling home companion robot with AI, camera, and projector.
- Manufacturer
- Samsung Electronics
- Form factor
- service
- Maturity
- development
- Lifecycle
- active
- Deployments
- 2
- Website
- news.samsung.com ↗
The verified answer
As of Sep 2026, DEPLOY verifies Ballie, a service by Samsung Electronics (development): 2 verified deployments on record. 2 sources back the record.
Overview
Rolling home companion robot with AI, camera, and projector. Follows users, controls smart home devices, displays content on walls. CES 2024 announcement, release pending.
Verified vs. claimed
- Maturity stage
- development
- Sources on file
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Key facts
Product
First unveiled
Planned release
Parent
Data & sources
Web sources
2
2 sources backing this record.View all →
Pricing
No verified price is on record for Ballie. Physical-AI systems are often sold through enterprise contracts or operated as a service rather than at a public list price.
Deployments (2)
Samsung announced Robot Data Factory and pilot humanoid production line at Gumi facility.
- Ballie at Seoul, South Koreaoperational
Samsung Ballie home robot: honest-absence on field deployment.
Ballie on the deployment map
View the global mapWhere Ballie is verified operating. Explore the deployment map by place and type.
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJul 21, 2026
at Gumi Complex, North Gyeongsang, South Korea
- Verified media addedVerifiedJun 11, 2026
Samsung Ballie AI home companion (CES 2024)
- Record createdJun 7, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Price point recordedJan 1, 2026
Not announced
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJun 1, 2024
at Seoul, South Korea
Safety record
No incidents on record for Ballie.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Sources (2)
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Methodology: Verified · 2 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-07-11
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-07-11
Maturity + lifecycle
Maturity stage: development
Lifecycle: active
Architectural position
Cohort: service
Sources by quality tier
- 2
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Ballie.Recent coverage
Ballie in third-party press
Attention vs reality over time
Media mentions per month (area) against verified deployment events (dots). A press spike over a flat deployment line is the hype gap, drawn over time.
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Ballie from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
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Ballie - Wikipedia
Wikipedia article on Ballie, Samsung's spherical AI companion robot first unveiled at CES 2020, with commercial release planned for 2026.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /models/samsung-ballie-robot.md
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/models/48822166-d652-4b93-92c9-1d62acd20b54
- Revision history: /models/samsung-ballie-robot/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
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Reality vs attention
Ballie draws attention at the 94th percentile but verifies reality at the 36th percentile among service robots. Hype Gap +58.1, 7th widest among service robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Strong recent media coverage and press activity. Thin deployment record; scale validation still in progress.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Sep 6, 2026