Sharp Launches Humanoid-looking RoboHon Smartphone

Moreover having the innovative Tomotaka Takahashi, Design, the newly robot phone RoboHon is measured as eight-inch-high robot which would be offering a two-inch screen on the back. It walks, talks, dances, and connects to LTE. Well, the dream has been materialised by Japanese company Sharp.

As you can see in the video above, the RoboHon actually resembles a humanoid figure, a robot basically.

The video also shows the robot, like a smartphone, can act like an alarm, talking to the user to wake them up, and it can even tell you what you have planned on your calendar, nearly like a mini personal assistant.

In an exhibit on Tuesday at the Ceatec gadgets demonstrate only outside of Tokyo, the robot reacted to directions to ring a man, take a photo, show the photo through the projector and do a move.

RoboHon will go on sale in Japan in the first half of 2016 and Sharp will release more details closer to the launch date. The phone can read messages to the user aloud, understand natural language commands, and respond to messages with a voice-to-text feature.

However, on the camera feature grounds, the robot phone is side to be offering an innovative camera and projector built into its face. Furthermore, it is powered by a MSM 8926 CPU clocked at 1.2GHz, and we should note that there are cameras for facial recognition and voice recognition built-in, too.

If RoboHon can really deliver on that sort of autonomous functionality that makes it feel less like a phone and more like a friend, Sharp may be able to appeal to consumers looking for an early prototype of an intelligent operating system similar to the phone depicted in the movie “Her”.