---
title: "Meet your robotic smartphone companion Robohon"
description: "Sharp combines the capabilities of a smartphone with the exterior of a robot to create Robohon"
date: "2015-10-06"
modified: "2015-10-06"
authors:
  - name: "Greg Candelario"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/greg"
url: "https://futurism.com/meet-your-robotic-smartphone-companion-robohon"
categories:
  - "Artificial Intelligence"
tags:
  - "robohon"
  - "robotprototype"
  - "sharp"
  - "smartphonerobot"
---

# Meet your robotic smartphone companion Robohon

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/robohon1.jpg>)

##### The Breakthrough

A prototype robot that works just like a smartphone has been revealed by Sharp, and it's planning to go on sale during the first half of 2016.

[![robohon](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/robohon.jpg>)](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/robohon.jpg>)
*Samsung's robot-smartphone*

Standing at just 20 centimeters, Robohon (short for robot and phone) contains a projector, camera, and an LCD screen. It also includes a speaker, a microphone and facial and voice recognition systems. A demonstration last Tuesday at the Ceatec electronics show in Tokyo showed how it responded to instructions by placing a call to a person, taking a photo and displaying it through the projector. The robot even did a dance afterwards.

While it's clear that the technology is still in its infancy, it's clear that Sharp sees an opportunity in combining the capabilities of a smartphone with a robotic exterior. Whether this product will carve out a valuable niche in the market is yet to be seen.