Smartphone drop tests are carried out by automated machines in a lab – but what if you get a sci-fi looking robot to do it instead? Someone who hasn’t seen The Terminator thought that it was a good idea to hand a Meizu Note 16 Pro to a Unitree G1 robot and tell it to drop it from different heights to see if it breaks. The Meizu Note 16 series will be unveiled on May 13, by the way.
The Meizu Note 16 series will be unveiled on Tuesday
The 1m drop test goes okay and so does the 1.5m test – that’s head height for the robot (the G1 is no Arnold). The next test is from 3m – all the tests so far have been done on a laminated floor.
The Unitree G1 robot
The next test is the attention-grabber – the robot drops the Note 16 Pro from the roof of Meizu’s headquarters, that’s a height of 35m. Admittedly, the phone lands on grass, but it records video the entire time to show that it wasn’t faked.
Then come the IP rating tests – the phone goes into the fish tank, it gets covered with dust and sand. Watch what happens below:
Okay, fine, the robot thing was just a promotional stunt – but if you watch until the end of the video, you will see the industrial robots that do the actual tests.
In case you’re wondering what the connection is, Meizu owner Geely has been trialing using Unitree robots (the larger H1) in its factories.