Major manufacturers are shelving showcased consumer robots and reframing them as internal 'innovation platforms' whose sensing and spatial‑AI work feeds ambient, platformized services rather than standalone products. The outcome is a slower, less visible rollout of embodied consumer robots and faster diffusion of their capabilities into phone, TV and smart‑home ecosystems.
— This shift changes regulatory and competition stakes: debate moves from robot safety standards to platform data governance, privacy, and market concentration in ambient AI.
msmash
2026.01.08
81% relevant
The core trend is TVs ceasing to be passive displays and becoming ambient, agentic interfaces that interrupt video to surface predictions and overlays; this is the same shift from standalone robots to distributed ambient AI in the household (examples: Veo generating video on TV, Hisense realtime player overlays).
msmash
2026.01.07
100% relevant
Samsung’s statement that Ballie is now an 'active innovation platform' and the device’s absence from CES after years of demos illustrates the pivot from product to platform R&D.
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