January 7, 2020 05:43 pm
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/7/21052028/samsung-ces-2020-press-conference-ballie-smart-cities-ai-supercut
Watch Samsung show off its robotic BB-8 lookalike Ballie, AR glasses, and exoskeleton demo
Samsung’s CES 2020 press conference on Monday featured robots, exoskeletons, AI, augmented reality, smart cities, and basically every other technology category you could think of.
The star of the show was Ballie, a robotic sphere with a passing resemblance to a volleyball. It’s fused with Samsung’s artificial intelligence tech, meaning it can identify people, stream live video, and operate various smart home gadgets like lighting, smart TVs, and even a Roomba. It’s somewhere between a Star Wars droid or perhaps real-life company Sphero’s very own discontinued BB-8 toy and the ill-fated Cozmo robot from defunct startup Anki. Hopefully, Samsung’s Ballie fares better than those two droids.
From there, Samsung’s press conference veered off...
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