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David Pierce
Live demos are hard, y’all.

I’m in Samsung’s CES booth this morning, where I finally got to see the new Ballie robot in action. It was cool! Helping with workouts, tracking air quality, making calls. And then… it got very confused about how its projector screen worked, and eventually stopped showing anything at all.

Poor Ballie might need a nap after all this work this week.

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