{"id":224874,"date":"2026-01-07T06:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T06:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/224874\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T06:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T06:26:09","slug":"robot-phone-set-for-china-launch-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/224874\/","title":{"rendered":"Robot phone set for China launch in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/e.vnexpress.net\/news\/tech\/tech-news\/javascript:void(0)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phong Ngo<\/a>\u00a0 &amp;nbspJanuary 6, 2026 | 07:00 pm PT\t<\/p>\n<p>Honor unveiled a prototype of Robot Phone with a built-in camera gimbal arm at the Consumer Electronics Show 2026 and said it will go on sale in China in March.\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal\">First teased in October 2025, the company said the Robot Phone\u2019s &#8220;emotional companion&#8221; feature can &#8220;senses, adapts, and evolves autonomously like a robot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal\">At CES 2026, which kicked off Tuesday in Las Vegas, the company did not allow public hands-on testing, but staff demonstrations showed responsive and stable robotic arm movements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal\">When retracted, the device resembles a conventional flagship smartphone with a large circular rear camera module. Once activated, the robotic arm deploys smoothly, enabling fluid subject tracking and stabilization similar to dedicated devices such as the DJI Osmo Pocket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal\">To accommodate the motors and moving components, Honor has <a href=\"https:\/\/e.vnexpress.net\/news\/tech\/tech-news\/499-blackberry-style-phone-to-debut-this-week-5001930.html\" rel=\"dofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">moved away from ultra-slim smartphone<\/a> designs. The Robot Phone is visibly thicker and heavier than typical flagships.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal\">Tech journalists have long criticized the lack of diversity in smartphone design. While foldable phones offered a shift from the norm, the Robot Phone represents a more radical departure from conventional form factors, CNET noted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal\">Honor has kept detailed specifications under wraps. The company said a finalized production version, featuring fully autonomous software-driven tracking, will be showcased at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this March, according to Digital Trends.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal\">Following that international appearance, the Robot Phone will officially go on sale in the Chinese market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Phong Ngo\u00a0 &amp;nbspJanuary 6, 2026 | 07:00 pm PT Honor unveiled a prototype of Robot Phone with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[85,46,321,123175,125],"class_list":["post-224874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-mobile","tag-robot-phone-set-for-china-launch-in-march-vnexpress-international","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}