{"id":80152,"date":"2025-10-15T14:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T14:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/80152\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T14:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T14:10:07","slug":"honor-reveals-a-new-smartphone-with-a-fold-out-robotic-camera-arm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/80152\/","title":{"rendered":"Honor reveals a new smartphone with a fold-out robotic camera arm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese smartphone company Honor is developing a smartphone with an AI-connected camera that unfolds from the back of the device.<\/p>\n<p>Honor<\/p>\n<p>BEIJING \u2014 Chinese smartphone company Honor on Wednesday announced it is developing a smartphone with a camera that folds out of the device using a robotic arm.<\/p>\n<p>The company said it plans to share more details at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona early next year.<\/p>\n<p>The new device would be the latest Chinese consumer electronics product to shake up a decades-old hardware design in an attempt to integrate AI. Earlier this year, Beijing-based Roborock started selling a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/08\/22\/chinas-robot-vacuum-roborock-plans-mass-market-cleaners-with-ai-arms.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">robot vacuum cleaner<\/a> with an arm that folds out from the top, and combines AI with sensors to detect obstructions for the arm to remove.<\/p>\n<p>Honor is calling the product a &#8220;robot phone&#8221; and said it will incorporate artificial intelligence, but did not provide specific details.<\/p>\n<p>The company said it is rolling out AI tools that help its smartphone users scan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/10\/15\/honor-launches-ai-phone-tools-that-help-users-get-online-shopping-discounts.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chinese e-commerce sites for personalized shopping deals<\/a>, quickly hail a taxi or get tips on how to better position the camera for a photo. The move is part of Honor&#8217;s plan to spend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/03\/02\/chinas-honor-pledges-10-billion-ai-investment-closer-google-ties.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$10 billion over the next five years<\/a> for a transformation into an AI device company.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese smartphone company Honor is developing a smartphone with an AI-connected camera that unfolds from the back of the device.<\/p>\n<p>Honor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese smartphone company Honor is developing a smartphone with an AI-connected camera that unfolds from the back of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,4562,553,3212,220,111,139,69,2340,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-80152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-breaking-news-technology","12":"tag-business-news","13":"tag-market-insider","14":"tag-markets","15":"tag-new-zealand","16":"tag-newzealand","17":"tag-nz","18":"tag-stock-markets","19":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}