A round screen tilts. It swivels toward you. Soft beeps echo, like Wall-E stirring to life. Samsung unveiled Project Luna at Milan Design Week 2026, a desktop robot blending smart speaker and companion in one puckish form. No firm launch date. Just a concept. But one that hints at Samsung’s push for AI that roams freely through homes. The device sits on a kitchen table in demos. It pairs with a smartphone. Plays music through a record-player interface. Answers queries on-screen and by voice. Dims room lights. Recommends meals, flashes calorie counts, pulls up calendar alerts. Projectors nearby echo its display. All powered by what Samsung calls communal AI—an intelligence that hops from gadget to gadget, filling voids left by absent devices. Mauro Porcini, Samsung’s chief design officer, calls it a taste of things ahead. “The idea is to give a vibe, a feeling of the kind of design language we want to use,” he told Fast Company .…