The “Robot Phone” was unveiled by Honor online in a promotional video that showed the gimbal-stabilised camera unfurl from the back camera module and appear to pivot while tracking its subject’s movement.

Honor described the unique smartphone as a “revolutionary AI device that fuses multi-modal intelligence, advanced robotics and next-generation imaging”.The Shenzhen-based company, which did not reveal details of the phone, said more information would be released in Spain during next year’s MWC Barcelona trade show, which will run from March 2 to 5.