Concept phones are nothing new. Companies throw out fantastical ideas with no real plans to produce them in the real world. Not Honor, which just announced what it calls the ‘Robot Phone’, with a full unveiling scheduled for March 2026. From the front, it resembles any other smartphone. It’s only when you see the dystopic robot arm and accompanying camera sticking out of the camera bump that something starts to feel off.
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The Honor Robot Phone doesn’t exist. Yet. All we can go on is the company’s CG (and almost certainly AI-generated?) teaser, with plans for a proper unveiling at Mobile World Congress (MWC) next year. Still, if Honor feels it has a real chance of making this a reality, even for fun, we’d love to see it brought to life.
The Robot Phone, that is. Not that little robot arm. The phone itself appears to be rather chunkier than most to accommodate the innovation, and ditches Honor’s logo for an ‘Alpha’ one instead, in keeping with the company’s ‘Alpha Plan‘. The company calls the device a “revolutionary AI device that fuses multi-modal intelligence, advanced robotics, and next-generation imaging.”
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Looking more like a DJI gimbal than anything else, the Robot Phone tucks the folding robot arm behind a sheet of glass in the rear camera bump, unfurling when the user needs image stabilisation on the go. It looks… intricate, and presents a challenge for Honor to make this a reality.
The arm’s movement looks to be fully autonomous, reaching up over the phone to face the user, or popping its head up while the phone lies face down to catch what’s going on around it. And because it’s 2025, the camera looks to be imbued with AI powers from the get-go, allowing it to automatically frame shots and, if the video is to be believed, play a round of peekaboo with your kid while you’re out who knows where.
