en.Wedoany.com Reported - During the 79th Cannes International Film Festival, Li Jian, CEO of Honor Device Co., Ltd., officially announced on May 15 that the world's first robotic smartphone, the Honor Robot Phone, will be launched in the third quarter of 2026. Defined as a "new species in the industry," the device was simultaneously unveiled at the "China Night" event of the Cannes Film Festival, becoming the exclusive imaging partner in the event's history.
The core hardware innovation of the Robot Phone centers on Honor's self-developed 4DoF gimbal system. According to official technical information disclosed by Honor, this is the industry's smallest four-degree-of-freedom gimbal module, featuring a built-in micro-motor that reduces volume by 70% compared to mainstream solutions. The gimbal is equipped with a 200-megapixel sensor, supporting 90° and 180° intelligent rotational camera movements. It can automatically track subjects during shooting, achieving CIPA 5.5-level physical stabilization, providing mechanically stable footage for handheld video creation. When the gimbal is retracted, the body thickness remains at 8.9 millimeters. It can pop up and unfold with a single click in 0.8 seconds and perform human-like actions such as nodding and shaking its head.
Software-hardware synergy constitutes another main technical thread of this product. The Robot Phone runs the MagicOS 9.0 operating system and a self-developed Robotic co-processor, featuring a 130-billion-parameter "Honor XiaoRong" on-device large model. The YOYO intelligent agent can proactively perceive the environment and execute tasks. The device can determine a speaker's position through voice recognition, driving the gimbal to automatically turn towards the sound source, and combine multimodal intelligence to provide physical feedback. This system is defined by Honor as a "body-brain" architecture, deeply coupling physical motion capabilities with AI decision-making abilities.
Another crucial pillar of the imaging system comes from a strategic technical collaboration with Germany's ARRI. At the MWC 2026 global launch event in March this year, Honor officially announced a partnership with ARRI, the century-old cinematic camera manufacturer, to bring the latter's exclusive color science, cinematic texture filters, and professional imaging workflow to mobile terminals. This marks the first direct integration of ARRI's core imaging science technology into a consumer-grade smartphone, and it is the first new species product launched by Honor in its transformation into an AI terminal ecosystem company since the announcement of its Alpha Strategy.
The public debut rhythm of the Robot Phone has spanned multiple major international stages. In March this year, the device was first exhibited at MWC 2026 in Barcelona, Spain, featuring a large motorized flip camera, and was positioned as a new form of embodied AI terminal. On May 13, Honor's Global Chief Marketing Officer, Guan Haitao, announced that Honor officially became the official imaging partner of the "China Night" at the 79th Cannes International Film Festival. The Robot Phone was subsequently exhibited on the Cannes beach, facing a community of professional creators from the film industry. Honor's Chief Imaging Engineer, Luo Wei, previously revealed on social media platforms that the product's development progress once aimed for a March launch window, and the delay to a Q3 release will allow more time for the complete refinement of the imaging intelligent agent functions.
The timing of this launch coincides with a period where the overall smartphone industry faces a bottleneck in form factor innovation. Honor has chosen to embed a mechanical gimbal into the phone body, driving the product's evolution from pure flat touch interaction towards an embodied intelligent terminal with physical motion capabilities. In an open interview during MWC 2026, Li Jian described the Robot Phone as an attempt to "give the phone a brain and limbs," stating it possesses both IQ and EQ. Currently, Honor has not yet announced complete specifications such as the Robot Phone's processor model, battery capacity, and specific pricing. More product details are expected to be disclosed gradually around the Q3 launch event.
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