The robot phone has arrived.

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04/03/2026
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the World Mobile Communications Congress being held in Barcelona, Spain, and is widely regarded as a key year for AI native hardware to move from concept to commercial scale. At this annual conference, Chinese companies collectively made appearances, releasing multiple heavyweight products and demonstrating China's full-chain strength in AI computing power, mobile terminal innovation, and other areas. Some Chinese exhibitors at the conference introduced a concept product of a "robot phone" equipped with a mechanical camera that can rotate at all angles on the top of the device, allowing for more visual AI interactions with users. From AI smartphones, AI wearable devices to AI robot terminals, Chinese companies are driving mobile terminals into a new generation of the "AI native era." Ni Fei, a representative of a Chinese exhibitor, said: "Phones manufactured with AI as a foundation can be understood as your phone being able to drive itself in the future. You can simply tell it what you want to do through natural language, and it can help you achieve it step by step."