"Ballie" the constant companion

 -Nilanjan Kala

Companionship is one of the first feelings we experience as human beings. Starting from the mother's first touch to own child's goodbye, we continuously need a companion throughout the life who will care for us and take care of us. We are currently living in a digital age, which enabled us to stay connected 24*7 with everyone, but at the same time, we are much disconnected than before.

his modern-day problem has made the need for companionship even more desirable, and we keep wondering about different possibilities. Is it possible if someone can wake you up in the morning by removing curtains like your parents used to do? What if someone can wake you up with good music and a positive quote in a giant screen like an elder sibling! How would you feel if someone can maintain the air conditioner temperature, clean the house with a vacuum cleaner, prepare hot water for shower, defrost your foods and veggies, ready the toaster like a house-maid? Will life be super easy if someone can guide you every time you get into the wrong posture while doing exercise! What if someone can take care of our elder parents or pets when you are in the office and inform you instantly if there is an emergency! I guess each one of us desires one or all of the things mentioned. If I say, you can get all the things through a modern solution! Yes, you heard it right!! There is a device that provides a solution for all these problems, a perfect personalized companion who will understand, take care of you, your family, your pets as well as your house throughout the day. The name is Ballie, Samsung Ballie!!

Samsung Ballie- It is a small ball-shaped robot that helps you around the house. Samsung claims that with the help of AI, Ballie will be a tool that can act as a medium that can help customers connect with smart devices in their homes, and it can be a personalized companion to your kids and pets. The small round shaped structure helps it to follow you and move across the house. The embedded high-resolution camera can help it capture and provide solutions as per the needs of the user. The smart voice recognition makes it user friendly for all the members of the family.

We can access Ballie from the phone by which the user can interact with it and use it as a security device to get live feeds on parents, kids, and pets at home. Let's see what Ballie will do for us. Once you wake up, it can show you an enlightened video wishing you good morning at your TV. When you moved to the kitchen, it will help you with your hot beverage as per your choice, ready to be served in your beverage maker. While you are performing your morning routines, it will remind you of all the essential events and fetch news from your favourite genre. Then it will act as your personalized trainer who will capture your moves while exercising from all directions and give you a report and feedback of your performance in the device of your choice. After that, when you are going for the shower, it will prepare the water temperature as per your preference to give you a refreshing bathing experience. Once you left for the office, it will be staying at your house like a guarding angel taking care of your family and your home.

It will keep reminding your parents about medicines, keep checking them whether they are doing good or not, and will clean your house with a vacuum cleaner before you return from the office. Once you are back from the office, you will be welcomed by Ballie with a temperature of your choice. Ballie also takes care of safety as you can accidentally step over it and fall. So it always maintains a distance of one meter. Ballie is like for everyone, and it is everywhere. It is like the perfect companion we are waiting. Currently, Samsung Ballie has showcased its capabilities at CES 2020 in Las Vegas, and it is supposedly going into production very soon. We hope that Ballie reaches our house very soon and become the perfect companion we all are waiting for!