HONOR: Smartphones Get a Body

On March 1, 2026, the HONOR brand blew up the MWC info space with a teaser for a fundamentally new class of devices — a "Robot Phone" and a full-fledged humanoid robot. The era of classic rectangular smartphones is coming to an end.

HONOR is making an aggressive maneuver into the territory of "Embodied AI." The logic is flawless: mobile phone manufacturers already possess the world's best supply chains for compact batteries, lidars, cameras, and mobile processors. By combining these hardware components with modern LLM agents, vendors can easily transition to assembling personal robot assistants. The Wall-E style phone is just a trial balloon before the mass expansion of consumer robotics into every home.

Source: Tech Reviews / HONOR