Honor Claims Its Robot Phone Will Launch Later This Year

Honor has revealed much specifications of its alleged Robot Phone astatine MWC 2026, and yet showed a moving portion successful action alongside a dancing humanoid robot. Specs are still bladed connected nan ground, but nan institution has confirmed it plans to merchandise nan telephone successful nan 2nd half of this twelvemonth — though I’ve been told that will only beryllium successful China.

The Robot Phone doesn’t rather unrecorded up to nan sanction — really it’s a smartphone pinch a gimbal-stabilized camera limb crammed into nan back. Honor has now revealed that nan main camera will person a 200-megapixel sensor, and is built into what it says is nan smallest 4DoF gimbal strategy successful nan industry, though those are each nan charismatic specs we person truthful far. It includes various AI camera search modes, on pinch much robotic features for illustration nan expertise to motion aliases shingle its caput successful conversation, and “dance” to music.

I fought done a throng of journalists to spot a moving portion successful nan demo area, which I saw unfold from nan device, clasp an AI-enabled conversation, and fold backmost in. So I tin corroborate it moves, but I didn’t get to spot nan remainder of its capabilities — still, that’s more than I saw astatine CES.

Honor showed nan Robot Phone disconnected connected shape together pinch a diminutive humanoid robot. It gave nary specifications astatine each astir that device, though has previously claimed it does person plans for a commercialized launch. The robot danced and backflipped crossed nan shape — though whether aliases not it was nether teleoperation, Honor wouldn’t say. I later saw it haltingly activity and shingle hands pinch property successful a demo area, though did that inconsistently capable that I’m assured it wasn’t nether distant control.

I’ll beryllium seeing much of some nan robot and Robot Phone connected nan MWC level tomorrow, erstwhile I should get a amended thought of what to expect from Honor’s robotics plans.

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