Honor's bonkers robot-arm camera phone is actually for sale

A few months ago, Chinese phone brand Honor teased one of the oddest concepts we've seen for a handset: it hid a folding robot arm attached to a camera.

The idea was for camera arm to function as a stabilizing gimbal to capture steady footage, and then some. Impressively, Honor's engineered that wacky dream into a reality, and is now selling the Robot Phone for real.

Like we saw during the concept stage, the arm remains tucked away in the rear camera bump behind a sliding protector screen. Fire it up, and the robot folds out and brings the camera up above the phone's screen, where it's pointed at you for selfies, vlogging, and even some anthropomorphized interaction.

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