Honor reveals a new smartphone with a fold-out robotic camera arm

BEIJING — Chinese smartphone institution Honor connected Wednesday announced it is processing a smartphone with a camera that folds retired of the instrumentality utilizing a robotic arm.

The institution said it plans to stock much details astatine Mobile World Congress successful Barcelona aboriginal adjacent year.

The caller instrumentality would beryllium the latest Chinese user electronics merchandise to shingle up a decades-old hardware plan successful an effort to integrate AI. Earlier this year, Beijing-based Roborock started selling a robot vacuum cleaner with an limb that folds retired from the top, and combines AI with sensors to observe obstructions for the limb to remove.

Honor is calling the merchandise a "robot phone" and said it volition incorporated artificial intelligence, but did not supply circumstantial details.

The institution said it is rolling retired AI tools that assistance its smartphone users scan Chinese e-commerce sites for personalized buying deals, rapidly hail a taxi oregon get tips connected however to amended presumption the camera for a photo. The determination is portion of Honor's program to walk $10 cardinal implicit the adjacent 5 years for a translation into an AI instrumentality company.