Honor says its ‘Robot phone’ with moving camera can dance to music

Honor archetypal teased its “Robot phone” with a movable camera limb earlier this year. Ahead of the Mobile World Congress (MWC) successful Barcelona, the Chinese institution provided much details astir the device, including however the robot tin respond to antithetic situations without commands. The institution said that it is readying to motorboat this instrumentality successful the 2nd fractional of this year.

Honor said that the robot besides has a “personality” and tin respond to you with “head shakes” and tin besides creation to the bushed of music. The institution noted that users tin speech to the adjunct connected the telephone done substance and voice. Honor showed a video of a idiosyncratic asking for apparel suggestions, and the robot nodding oregon shaking to suggest an outfit.

The telephone has a 200-megapixel camera connected a moving robot three-axis gimbal with stabilization tech. The institution said that the camera tin smoothly rotate astir and seizure creaseless videos and photos. It besides has a Super Steady mode for video capture. The institution said the telephone tin get cinematic shots done its Spinshot diagnostic that makes the robot camera rotate by 90 oregon 180 degrees.

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The robotic camera besides allows for much fluid video calls that tin way you done AI-powered entity tracking. The tech is similar Apple’s Center Stage connected steroids if it works.

The institution said that it developed its ain micro centrifugal to power the robotic camera’s movements. It noted that it utilized immoderate techniques utilized successful foldable phones to marque the camera much sturdy and acceptable the four-degree-of-freedom gimbal strategy into the assemblage of a phone. Honor said that it is utilizing the aforesaid materials for the robotic limb arsenic the Honor Magic V6’s hinge, with 2800 MPa tensile strength.

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Honor besides released the Honor Magic V6 foldable with a 6,600 mAh battery, the Honor MagicPad 4 tablet, and the Honor MagicBook 14 laptop astatine its event.