Honor brought its Robot Phone concept to Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, giving us a first close look at the device.
Honor calls the Robot Phone a “new species” of smartphone that combines “embodied AI interaction with robot-grade motion and cinematic imaging capabilities.” No, that doesn’t make the concept any clearer.
Having seen it in person, I can tell you that it is, indeed, still a smartphone. It has a robotic arm that springs out of the back, carrying a 200-megapixel camera with it. Once it’s out, the arm functions as a gimbal, allowing the camera eye to move around freely in all three dimensions.
This could be useful for certain types of tasks in photography and videography, but Honor seems to be equally as interested in using the camera/eye to give the phone personality. Yeah, it can nod at you, or perform other gestures that really do turn the entire thing into a robot of sorts.
Support authors and subscribe to content
This is premium stuff. Subscribe to read the entire article.
