Samsung Ballie arrives in 2025 to finally get the home robot ball rolling [Video]

Samsung’s cute (until his AI burns down the house) home help robot Ballie is finally going on sale this year. And, with Apple rumoured to be considering a Siri-powered robot of its own, the timing couldn’t be better.

After infrequently showing up at CES with mad new skills and design revamps, before disappearing for actual years at a time, Samsung is finally ready to – quite literally – roll out Ballie.

Announced during the Samsung keynote in Las Vegas, the Minion-esque, bowling ball-sized device will be available during the first half of the year. However, no price was revealed.

The mention was extremely brief, but the long-awaited device still has its key feature, which is the built-in projector that’ll beam images or videos onto various surfaces in the home. Samsung has previously demonstrated fitness videos, video calls, or extra displays for computing products as potential uses for the light beam.

However, beyond that we don’t know what advancements Samsung has made to Ballie over the last 12 …