HomeRolling home companion robot
Ballie
by Samsung
A small ball-shaped robot that drives itself around the home. Samsung says it can project videos onto walls or floors, play music, answer calls and control smart home devices. Samsung Newsroom, 9 Jan 2024
- Evidence
- No customer evidence yet
- Human help
- Not disclosed
- Last milestone
- 9 April 2025
01Can I get it?
Not yet
- Where it works today
- Not on sale. Shown at trade shows since 2020; a promised summer 2025 launch in the US and Korea did not happen in any source we found. Wikipedia, Ballie
- Published price
- No published price in our sources.
- Human help
- The maker hasn't said whether people help it remotely.
02Track record
What has actually happened
Every milestone is dated and links to the page it comes from. Lines marked company-reported rest on the maker's own word.
Unveiled
Samsung first showed Ballie at the CES tech show in Las Vegas.
Samsung Newsroom, 9 Jan 2024Company-reported
03Promised vs delivered
What the maker said, and when
Dated targets the maker set in public, against what has happened since.
- Said9 April 2025
On sale in the US and Korea in summer 2025
Samsung said Ballie would be available to buyers in the US and Korea in summer 2025. Samsung press release, 9 Apr 2025
MissedWe found no record of Ballie going on sale; by October 2026 Wikipedia still described it as a robot to be released in 2026.
04Safety and incidents
What has gone wrong
No crashes, recalls or regulator reports in our sources. That is not proof none happened; we add them when a regulator or trusted outlet reports one.
On video
What it looks like, at stage 1
Videos from the maker show the robot at its best. The stage comes from the dated record above, not from what a video shows.
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The rule, not an opinion
Stages are worked out by published rules from the dated milestones above. We never rate robots, and no maker can pay to change a stage.
- 5
Regulator-cleared or mass market
A regulator has cleared it where approval applies: FDA clearance or approval for a medical robot, a permit to run with no one aboard for a self-driving vehicle, or an FAA approval for routine drone flights. Or: Widely sold: sales in the hundreds of thousands, or a product category you can buy in ordinary shops.
- 4
Paying customers
Delivered to customers who pay for it, beyond a trial, or a paid service the public can use.
- 3
Pilot
Working with a named customer in a real setting, as a trial.
- 2
Pre-orders
Orders, reservations or deposits taken, with nothing delivered yet.
- 1
Demo onlyThis robot
Shown in videos, staged events or a factory, with no units working for customers.
No pre-order, pilot, paying customer or clearance is on record yet.
What we couldn't confirm. Independent reporting on why Ballie was delayed after summer 2025, and on its 2026 status, could not be opened (search budget used up; CNET blocked). Samsung's newsroom has no Ballie article after April 2025. No price has been announced.
Sources
Cite this page
Robotics Verdict. “Ballie (Samsung): how far has it got?” roboticsverdict.com/robots/samsung-ballie. Checked 19 October 2026.
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