Honor first teased this wild "Robot phone" with a moving camera arm earlier this year. Now, right before Mobile World Congress (MWC) kicks off in Barcelona, the Chinese company's spilling more details about the thing including how the robot can actually react to different situations without you even telling it what to do. They're planning to launch it sometime in the second half of this year.
Here's where it gets kind of fun: Honor says the robot's got a "personality." It can respond to you with little head shakes and even dance along to music. Wild, right? You can chat with the assistant through text or voice, and Honor showed off a video where someone asks for outfit advice and the robot nods or shakes its head to give fashion feedback. Kind of ridiculous but also kind of cool.
The phone's packing a 200MP camera mounted on this moving three-axis gimbal robot arm with built-in stabilization tech. Honor says the camera can smoothly rotate all the way around to capture steady videos and photos. There's also a Super Steady mode for video. And get this they've got a feature called Spinshot that makes the robot camera do 90 or 180-degree spins for those dramatic cinematic shots. Pretty extra, honestly.
The robotic camera also makes video calls way more dynamic with AI-powered object tracking that follows you around. If it actually works as advertised, it's basically Apple's Center Stage but cranked up to 11.
Honor says they developed their own custom micro motor specifically to control the robot camera's movements. They borrowed some engineering tricks from their foldable phone tech to make the camera mechanism super sturdy and somehow cram this entire four-degree-of-freedom gimbal system into the body of a regular phone. The robotic arm is built from the same materials as the Honor Magic V6's hinge 2800 MPa tensile strength, so it should hold up.
Speaking of which, Honor also dropped the Magic V6 foldable with that massive 6,600 mAh battery at this event, along with the Honor MagicPad 4 tablet and the Honor MagicBook 14 laptop. Busy day for them.
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Not going to lie I kind of want one of these lol. The fact that it can dance to music has to be amusing to watch, now the video itself might make you dizzy. I can see this being a pretty popular camera to use over on places like TikTok!
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