Leaked app visuals suggest that Samsung’s home assistant robot Ballie is still a work in progress, with new interfaces indicating potential features such as mobile security and environmental mapping, despite previous delays and absences from CES 2026.
Samsung’s Ballie robot appears to be back in play after fresh user-interface designs for what looks like its companion app surfaced online, reviving speculation that the AI home device has not been abandoned. The leak comes after Samsung delayed the product and then left it out of CES 2026, developments that had fuelled the assumption that the project had quietly faded away. Yet the new material suggests Samsung may still be building both the robot and the software layer that would control it.
The app sketches point to a device designed to do more than simply move around a home. One screen shows battery information, location and operating status, with locations labelled for rooms such as the kitchen and living room as well as a station. Other elements indicate controls for live streaming, which could let owners watch Ballie’s camera feed directly from the app. There is also a home-monitor function, implying the robot could serve as a mobile security tool as well as a household assistant.
Samsung has previously presented Ballie as an autonomous companion robot that can move around a home and help with everyday tasks. At CES 2024, the company reintroduced a redesigned version of Ballie with a built-in projector, spatial lidar for navigation and support for projecting video calls or content on to walls and floors. The sketches now circulating appear to reinforce that projection remains central to the product’s identity, with separate media and robot tabs suggesting dedicated controls for the display functions.
One of the more notable details in the leaked designs is a screen showing Ballie scanning a surface before projecting on to it. That has led to the suggestion that the robot may map its surroundings in three dimensions so it can judge the shape and position of objects before casting an image. If accurate, that would fit with Samsung’s earlier demonstrations of Ballie using sensors to understand its environment and adapt its behaviour to the home around it.
For now, the evidence falls short of confirming a launch. Software mock-ups can point to active development without guaranteeing a commercial release. But taken alongside Samsung’s earlier refresh of Ballie at CES 2024, the leaked app designs make it harder to argue that the robot has been shelved. They instead suggest a project that may still be evolving behind the scenes, with Samsung continuing to refine how Ballie would work inside the connected home.
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