TL;DR HONOR has published a teaser for its Robot Phone with a motorized camera gimbal.
The gimbal folds up and tucks down behind a sliding panel on the rear camera island.
HONOR intends to further show off the hardware at MWC next March.
Feel like smartphone hardware has gotten too boring? Sure, we’ve got foldables aplenty now, but what are your options if you want something a little off the beaten path from your handset? The Nothing Phone 3 with its little Glyph Matrix screen on the back? Today we’re checking out what’s maybe the most interesting, innovative attempt to do something a little radical with phone hardware that we’ve seen in quite some time, with the teaser of handset featuring a built-in gimbal camera.
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Multi-point articulated gimbals like DJI’s new Osmo Mobile 8 make it easy to shoot professional-looking, stable video with our phones, but that means carrying around a separate accessory. At least, so far it has, but over on X, smartphone manufacturer HONOR is teasing a new “Robot Phone” with its own gimbal-mounted camera.
What’s the future of intelligent devices? While the industry is busy comparing the iPhone, we believe it’s time to break the mold and refocus on what truly matters: creating real value for you. Introducing the HONOR ROBOT PHONE — a revolutionary AI device that fuses multi-modal… pic.twitter.com/NdhudoBpW0 — HONOR (@Honorglobal) October 15, 2025
In a video that looks more AI than not, HONOR presents its Robot Phone concept. Rather than the sort of pop-up selfie cam that might rise out of a phone’s frame, this depicts the gimbal as folding up and tucking away behind a sliding panel in the rear camera island.
For this teaser, HONOR has animated the gimbal camera in a way that’s a bit evocative of Pixar’s Luxo Jr. lamp. The spot highlights a few potential use cases for a gimbal like this, tracking action shots that keep the focus on the subject. We just hope HONOR is using a screen protector, because the company loves to show the Robot Phone lying face-down with its gimbal camera up and at attention.
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