For some, the smartphone is their best friend. Sharp take that with the RoBoHoN very literally. The company is working on a smartphone in the form of a robot with human characteristics. It seems that Sharp the smartphonerobot actually want to bring.
“Hear what you hear, see what you see, the same dreams to share, that is small RoBoHoN’s big dream.” With these words, it introduces Sharp the robot on a website that is specifically for the gadget is created.
RoBoHoN can be operated with voice recognition; the robot talk back and therefore, according to Sharp as possible to a natural dialogue. The two-legged robot can walk and sit and is equipped with a 2″display with qvga resolution of 320×240 pixels on his back. His eyes function as notificatieled and in the head are a speaker, camera and projector built in.
The twenty centimeters high smartphonerobot weighs 390 grams, is equipped with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400-soc, and offers connectivity through 3g, 4g or wi-fi. Sharp makes not known on what operating system the robot is running, supposedly it goes to Android. According to the manufacturer, it is possible to e-mail and call the RoBoHoN and there is a search function available.
Sharp has the robot designed in collaboration with Tomotaka Takahashi, a famous designer of humanoid robots. The company seems telefoonrobotje actually on the market in Japan. According to the press release of the manufacturer must, in the first half of 2016 to happen. What the RoBoHoN will cost is not yet known.