Honor claims its Robot Phone will launch later this year
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Honor showcased its Robot Phone at MWC 2026, featuring a 200MP camera on a 4DoF gimbal arm. It's set to launch in China in the second half of this year, though it's more of a smartphone with a camera arm than a true robot.
Honor has revealed more details of its so-called Robot Phone at MWC 2026, and finally showed a working unit in action alongside a dancing humanoid robot. Specs are still thin on the ground, but the company has confirmed it plans to release the phone in the second half of this year - though I've been told that will only be in China.
The Robot Phone doesn't quite live up to the name - really it's a smartphone with a gimbal-stabilized camera arm crammed into the back. Honor has now revealed that the main camera will have a 200-megapixel sensor, and is built into what it says is the smallest 4DoF gimbal system in the industry, though those are …