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The Wall Street Publication > Blog > World > Including Google Gemini to Samsung’s Ballie AI robotic sounds spectacular, however I am unsure it issues
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Including Google Gemini to Samsung’s Ballie AI robotic sounds spectacular, however I am unsure it issues

Editorial Board Published April 12, 2025
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Including Google Gemini to Samsung’s Ballie AI robotic sounds spectacular, however I am unsure it issues
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I’ve watched sufficient robotic movies on-line to know that slapping an AI mannequin right into a hunk of {hardware} doesn’t mechanically make it helpful. I bear in mind one clip specifically the place somebody had wired ChatGPT right into a robotic canine, and the outcomes had been combined.

Certain, the robotic might all of the sudden reply your questions with confidence. However asking it to open a door or decide one thing up was nonetheless the identical clumsy creature as earlier than. The intelligence was within the voice, not the movement.

So, when Samsung introduced that its long-awaited Ballie robotic would come preloaded with Google’s Gemini AI, my first thought was to surprise what precisely Gemini brings to the desk that Ballie hadn’t already promised.

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Gemini is able to understanding language and pictures and performing complicated reasoning. Ballie is meant to be a rolling companion filled with cameras, projectors, sensors, and the flexibility to navigate your private home. I can see why some is likely to be desperate to see what a mix of the 2 might do.

Samsung and Google have advised that Ballie plus Gemini would allow the robotic to recommend actions to lift your power or offer you outfit ideas utilizing its onboard digital camera and a Gemini-powered sense of fashion. However it extra, I’m probably not certain something the businesses describe is both already one thing Ballie would have the ability to do or one thing Gemini can already do with no need to be linked to Ballie.

Ballie can alter sensible dwelling units and mission movies or ambient lighting onto your partitions, however does it want Gemini to take action? Gemini can reply questions, analyze photographs and style, and arrange your entire day, however does being embedded in a ball-shaped robotic improve these options a lot?

You might as properly open Gemini on a pill and tape it to a skateboard. Gemini provides Ballie higher language understanding and smarter solutions, however these don’t require a robotic physique that may roll throughout your front room.

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Ballie is a formidable piece of {hardware}. It has twin projectors, depth sensors, LiDAR, a number of microphones, and a high-end digital camera setup. It will possibly comply with you, return to its charger, and even file or stream footage. However all of these issues had been innate to the {hardware}.

Gemini doesn’t make Ballie mission in greater decision or roll sooner. It doesn’t give Ballie arms or the flexibility to work together bodily with objects. It simply provides it higher phrases – and whereas phrases matter, they don’t essentially translate right into a robotic that’s extra helpful.

It’s not that Gemini brings nothing to the desk. Speaking to Ballie about your schedule and getting a visible abstract projected on the wall is a satisfying thought. And Gemini’s potential to combine multi-modal inputs might make these interactions smarter. However once more, the robotic’s bodily function in that course of remains to be fuzzy.

There’s a cause individuals nonetheless get excited by movies of robots folding laundry or climbing stairs. It’s as a result of motion and manipulating the atmosphere are nonetheless uncommon and spectacular feats. Regardless of how sensible the AI turns into, if the {hardware} can’t meet it midway, the outcome will at all times really feel like a demo lacking its payoff.

Making extra conversational, extra responsive, and extra human in its communication is a leap for Samsung. However that leap is barely significant if the robotic itself can ship one thing you couldn’t already get from a display.

In any other case, you could as properly open Gemini in a browser tab on a pill, duct-tape it to a Roomba, and name it a day.

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