Honor has announced what it’s calling the “Robot Phone,” a concept device with an AI-enabled, gimbal-mounted camera that unfolds from the phone’s rear and can shoot photos and film video in any direction.

The phone — so far only seen in CGI form in a teaser video, with no glimpse of real hardware just yet — looks like a typical, albeit thick, smartphone. Instead of an Honor logo it bears an alpha, representing the company’s “Alpha Plan” corporate vision, and the main giveaway that something’s up is the chunky camera module, split into two parts.

From here a camera arm unfolds with a cartoonish giggle (it… really does giggle, at least in the video), revealing that the main camera can flip up to take selfies, but also to shoot from a variety of positions and angles, seemingly moving under

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