Honor teases humanoid alongside robot phone

Honor, the Chinese smartphone maker spun out of Huawei, dropped a teaser video confirming it will use the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week to unveil not just its experimental Robot Phone but a full humanoid as well.

Specifics remain thin, but Honor says the robot is designed for domestic and retail environments, like household chores and in-store shopping assistance.

The humanoid looks to share the stage with Honor’s Robot Phone concept, first teased last October, the Magic V6 flagship, and other new devices.

Both launches fall under Honor’s “Alpha Plan,” a five-year, $10B AI investment strategy aimed at repositioning the company as a full stack AI hardware player.

Honor claims first mover status among major smartphone vendors entering robotics, as Chinese rivals also race to commercialize service robots.