Honor first teased its “Robot phone” with a movable camera arm earlier this year. Ahead of Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, the Chinese company provided more details about the device, including how the robot can respond to different situations without commands. The company said it plans to launch this device in the second half of this year.
Honor said the robot also has “personality” and can respond to you with “head shakes” and can also dance to music. The company noted that users can talk to the assistant on the phone via text and voice. Honor showed a video of a person asking for outfit suggestions and the bot nodding or moving to suggest an outfit.
The phone features a 200-megapixel camera on a three-axis robot arm with stabilization technology. The company said the camera can rotate smoothly and take smooth videos and photos. It also has a Super Steady mode for shooting videos. The company said the phone can take cinematic shots through its Spinshot mode that makes the robot camera rotate 90 or 180 degrees.
The robotic camera also allows for more fluid video calls that can track you through AI object tracking. The technology is like Apple’s Center Stage on steroids if it works.
The company said it developed its own micromotor to control the robotic camera’s movements. He noted that he used some techniques used in foldable phones to make the camera more robust and adapt the four-degree-of-freedom gimbal system to the body of a phone. Honor said it uses the same materials for the robotic arm as the Honor Magic V6’s hinge, with a tensile strength of 2800 MPa.
Honor also launched the foldable Honor Magic V6 with a 6,600mAh battery, the Honor MagicPad 4 tablet and the Honor MagicBook 14 laptop.
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