Honor claims its Robot Phone will launch later this year
Honor revealed more details about 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 plans to release the phone in the second half of this year – although I’m told it will only be in China.
The Robot Phone doesn’t quite live up to its name: it’s actually a smartphone with a gimbal-stabilized camera arm recessed into the back. Honor has now revealed that the main camera will have a 200-megapixel sensor and is integrated into what it says is the industry’s smallest 4DoF gimbal system, although those are all the official specs we have so far. It includes various AI camera tracking modes, as well as more robotic features such as the ability to nod or shake your head during a conversation and “dance” to music.
I fought through a crowd of journalists to see a working unit in the demo area, which I watched deploy from the device, hold an AI-based conversation, and fall back. So I can confirm that it moves, but I haven’t been able to see the rest of its capabilities – it’s still more than what I saw at CES.
Honor showed the Robot Phone on stage with a small humanoid robot. He did not give any details about this device, although he has previously claimed that he is planning a commercial launch. The robot danced and did backflips across the stage – although Honor wouldn’t say, whether it was teleoperating or not. Later, I saw him wave and shake hands with the press in a demonstration area, but incoherently enough that I was sure he wasn’t under remote control.
I’ll see more of the robot and the Robot Phone tomorrow at MWC, when I should have a better idea of what to expect from Honor’s robotic plans.
Photography by Dominic Preston/The Verge
