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Samsung brings back Ballie, its home robot, at CES 2024 — with a few upgrades

At its CES 2024 keynote, Samsung brought back Ballie, the spherical home robot it first announced in 2020, with a few AI upgrades.

The new and improved Ballie, which Samsung previewed during its press conference at CES 2024 in Las Vegas today, is around the size of a bowling ball, packing a battery that’s designed to last two to three hours. Ballie sports a spatial lidar sensor to help it navigate rooms and obstacles, as well as 1080p projector with two lenses that allows the robot to project movies and video calls even act as a second PC monitor. Samsung’s promising a lot beyond these basics, like automatic reminders to water plants around the house, access to remote medical services (for older household members) and personalization depending on who the robot senses nearby.

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