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RoBoHon, a robot smartphone from Sharp

Daniel Morial October 6, 2015 · 1 min read

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Sharp has a peculiar device positioned to be a personal smartphone but shaped liked a humanoid. He is RoBoHon.

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The robot phone measures 19.5cm in height and weighs 390g. It has a 2-inch QVGA display and supports LTE and Wi-Fi. If you are as curious as we are, watch the concept video below and see this tiny robot in action.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQtIlxe_ZkY

The person behind this is Tokyo professor and roboticist Tomotaka Takahashi. RoBoHon will be launched next year. Pricing and availability is yet to be announced.

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This article was contributed by Daniel Morial, a film school graduate and technology enthusiast. He's the geeky encyclopedia and salesman among his friends for anything tech.

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