Honor teases Robot Phone concept with motorized foldout camera arm

Chinese smartphone maker Honor on Wednesday unveiled a concept handset it calls the Robot Phone, releasing a teaser that shows a motorized, foldout camera arm folding out of the phone's rear camera island to track subjects and stabilize footage. Honor said it will provide further details at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona from March 2 to 5, 2026.

The short promotional clip depicts a compact, articulated arm that extends from behind a sliding rear panel and rotates and tilts to follow moving subjects, suggesting gimballike stabilization and autonomous framing. The company described the device as a "revolutionary AI device that fuses multimodal intelligence, advanced robotics and nextgeneration imaging," and the teaser showed use cases ranging from action-tracking shots to scenes in which the camera module appears to respond expressively to its surroundings.

Honor framed the concept as part of a broader strategic shift under its Alpha Plan, a five year, $10 billion investment strategy announced earlier by new chief executive James Li Jian to move the company toward an ecosystem of AI-enabled devices. The Robot Phone teaser and a separate "User Wish Plan" invite...