FF Futurist Humanoid Robot
The All-New Futurist is Faraday Future's full-size humanoid robot, launched in June 2026 as part of the six-series FF EAI Robot World. It stands 1.73 m, weighs about 55 kg, carries 31 degrees of freedom excluding the hands, runs roughly 6 hours on a 1,152 Wh dual battery, and costs $89,900 including a premium Skills package. It targets academic research and industrial work.
US buyers: US-built and orderable, one of the few full-size humanoids in that position.
Faraday Future builds the Futurist in the US and lists it at $89,900 including a $10,000 skills package. Being US-built keeps it outside the foreign-produced category, which is a large part of why it is orderable at all after 28 July 2026.
No published channel outside the US.
As of 2026-08-30 · medium confidence — verify before you commit funds
What is the FF Futurist Humanoid Robot?
The Futurist is the humanoid Faraday Future sells with a published price, which almost no full-size rival does.
Faraday Future spent a decade as an electric-car company that struggled to deliver electric cars. In June 2026 it did something few people predicted: it turned up at Automate in Chicago with a complete six-series robot lineup and an $89,900 full-size humanoid, and it claimed to be shipping.
The humanoid is called the All-New Futurist - a refresh of an earlier FF Futurist rather than a first attempt - and its headline technical claim is that it is the first full-size humanoid in the US to natively support NVIDIA's SONIC full-body motion control system.
It is one of the least-searched machines in this catalogue, which is worth saying up front. But it is also a US-built full-size humanoid that you can order, in a year when that combination became commercially significant, so it earns its page.
The All-New Futurist: specs
Full-size bipedal humanoid, 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) tall and around 55 kg (121 lb). That is tall-but-light, in the same territory as Tesla's Optimus at 1.73 m and 57 kg.
The body carries 31 degrees of freedom, a count that explicitly excludes the hands. Faraday Future has not detailed the hand configuration, which is a meaningful gap - hands are where most humanoid programmes either succeed or quietly stall. Peak knee-joint torque is quoted at 320 Nm.
Power comes from a 1,152 Wh dual-battery system rated for roughly six hours of continuous operation. Six hours is a genuinely competitive figure for a full-size humanoid; most of the field sits between two and five.
What is missing from the published material, as of 30 August 2026: walking speed, payload, sensor suite, and any breakdown of what the onboard compute is. Those are ordinary things to publish and their absence is worth noting.
The FF EAI Robot World - six series, and what's a humanoid
Faraday Future did not launch one robot. It launched a framework it calls the FF EAI Robot World, announced in two halves: a first-half launch on 16 June 2026 and a second-half launch at Automate in Chicago on 22 June 2026.
The lineup spans six series in three categories. Humanoids: Futurist, Master and Nova. Quadrupeds: Aegis and Navi - the FX Navi is priced at $1,990 and was available immediately. Mobile manipulators: the Faber series, aimed at industrial deployment.
Only the humanoid series is in scope for this catalogue; the quadrupeds and the mobile-manipulator arms are a different class of machine. Within the humanoids, the Futurist is the one with published specs and a published price. Master and Nova have been named but not detailed, which makes them announcements rather than products for now.
The company frames the whole thing as 'one brain, multiple forms' - a shared embodied-AI stack across body plans.
Price, what's included, and the AIxC model
$89,900, and the price explicitly includes a premium Skills package that Faraday Future values at $10,000. So the hardware-only comparison point is somewhere near $79,900, though the company does not sell it that way.
Context for that number: it sits well above Unitree's G1 at roughly $16,000 and well below the six-figure territory of most Western full-size humanoids. For a US-assembled full-size bipedal machine with a six-hour battery, it is not an unreasonable ask.
Alongside the sale, Faraday Future announced something it calls AIxC - a robot-sharing model intended to shift robots from one-time hardware sales into revenue-generating assets for the buyer. The terms have not been published. Treat it as a stated direction rather than a programme you can sign up to.
NVIDIA SONIC and the software story
The most concrete differentiator claimed is native support for NVIDIA's SONIC full-body motion control system, with Faraday Future saying it is the first full-size humanoid in the US to have it built in rather than bolted on. The underlying architecture is described as VLA-based - vision-language-action, the dominant paradigm in embodied AI through 2026.
For a research buyer this is the actual selling point. A humanoid that speaks a standard motion-control stack out of the box removes months of integration work, and it means published research and pretrained policies have a shorter path onto the machine.
What has not been shown is autonomous task performance. There are no published benchmark results, no independently observed demonstrations of the robot doing sustained work, and no named customer running it in production. The software claim is architectural, not behavioural, and it's important to keep those apart.
Is it actually shipping?
Faraday Future says yes, with caveats you should read carefully. The company projected more than 100 robot shipments in June 2026 and more than 220 across the first half of the year, and reported beating its original target.
The caveat: those are portfolio-wide figures across six series. The $1,990 FX Navi quadruped is by a wide margin the cheapest and most shippable thing in the range, and it is entirely plausible that it accounts for most of that volume. Faraday Future has not broken out how many All-New Futurist humanoids specifically have been delivered, and no named customer deployment has been reported.
This is a company with a long history of ambitious delivery projections in its automotive life. That history is not proof of anything here, but it is a reason to want a unit count rather than a portfolio count before treating the humanoid as volume-shipping.
Who it's for, and the honest confidence level
The intended buyer is an academic robotics lab or an industrial R&D group in the US that wants a full-size bipedal platform, wants it without an import question mark over it, and values the NVIDIA SONIC integration enough to pay for the shortcut. Faraday Future also lists warehouse work, hospitality and home health support as targets; those read as ambition rather than current capability.
Our confidence in this entry is moderate-to-low and deliberately so. Almost everything above traces to company launch material and press releases. There is no teardown, no independent review, no benchmark, no customer testimonial, and several ordinary specs - payload, speed, sensors - simply have not been published.
The US-manufacturer angle is real and it matters after 30 July 2026, when the US restricted new Chinese humanoid imports. A domestic full-size humanoid at under six figures is a genuinely short list. Just go in knowing how thin the public evidence is.
The Faraday Future All-New Futurist on video
Hands-on reviews and teardowns, picked for what they actually show rather than how loud the thumbnail is.
The fullest look at the Futurist alongside the rest of the EAI line, which matters because the shipment numbers cover all of it.
The manufacturer's own launch presentation. View count is in the dozens — this product has almost no independent coverage yet.
Who the Faraday Future All-New Futurist is — and isn't — for
+Where it shines
- Stated real-world payload (Not officially specified; peak knee-joint torque quoted at 320 Nm).
!Watch-outs
- Sold to businesses only — not to private buyers.
- Public data is thin; verify key figures before relying on them.
How the Faraday Future All-New Futurist stacks up
Side by side with similar robots — the one you're reading about is highlighted.
| This robot Faraday Future Faraday Future All-New Futurist | PNDbotics PNDbotics Adam |  PAL Robotics PAL Robotics ARI |  NEURA Robotics NEURA Robotics 4NE-1 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price (US) | $89,900 including the premium Skills package | $99,999 – $145,000 | $35,000 – $90,000 | $65,000 – $105,000 |
| Availability | Available to order | On the market | On the market | Reservations open |
| Height | 1.73 m | 1.67 m | 1.65 m | 180 cm |
| Payload | Not officially specified; peak knee-joint torque quoted at 320 Nm | ~5 kg | ~0.5 kg per arm | Arms rated ~20 kg; up to 100 kg lifting in leg-supported/full-body configurations |
| DoF | 31 | Lite | ~12 | Hands |
| Buyer | Enterprise | Enterprise | Individuals | Enterprise |
| Made in | Other | Other | Other | Other |
What the Faraday Future All-New Futurist costs — and how to get one
Open commercial ordering
Leasing / RaaS: 'AIxC' robot-sharing programme announced; terms not published
Every spec, grouped & sourced
Tap a group to expand. Values are labelled official vs third-party; unknowns are omitted, not guessed.
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Claims vs evidence
VLA-based (vision-language-action) embodied AI architecture; described as the first full-size humanoid in the US to natively support NVIDIA's SONIC full-body motion control
Where it's working
No named customer sites; shipment counts are company projections across the whole robot portfolio
Intended use cases: Academic and robotics research, industrial and warehouse tasks, hospitality and public-space hosting; household and home-health use is aspirational
Should you consider the Faraday Future All-New Futurist?
A real, orderable, US full-size humanoid at $89,900 with a six-hour battery and native NVIDIA SONIC support - that combination is rare enough to matter after the July 2026 import restrictions. But nearly every fact here comes from Faraday Future's own launch material, the hands are undescribed, and the shipment numbers are portfolio-wide. Promising; unproven.
Score reflects stated criteria (availability, data confidence, US relevance) — not hands-on testing or user ratings. We're an independent review & comparison site; we don't sell robots. *Financing figure is illustrative.
How we know this
Data confidence 44/100 · last verified 2026-08-30. Specs are labelled official vs third-party and dated; unknowns are omitted, not guessed.
Faraday Future All-New Futurist — your questions, answered in full
How much is the Faraday Future Futurist robot?+
$89,900 as of 30 August 2026, and that price includes a premium Skills software package the company values at $10,000. No separate hardware-only price has been published.
How tall is the All-New Futurist and what does it weigh?+
1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) and roughly 55 kg (121 lb). That puts it close to Tesla's Optimus in both dimensions, and it is light for a full-size humanoid, which usually helps with runtime and with safety around people.
How many degrees of freedom does it have?+
31 across the body, explicitly excluding the hands. Faraday Future has not published a hand DOF count or described the hand design, which is one of the larger gaps in the published spec.
How long does the battery last?+
Around six hours of continuous operation from a 1,152 Wh dual-battery system, per the manufacturer. Six hours is at the upper end for a full-size humanoid; it has not been independently verified.
What is NVIDIA SONIC support and why does it matter?+
SONIC is NVIDIA's full-body motion control system. Faraday Future says the All-New Futurist is the first full-size humanoid in the US to support it natively rather than through integration work. For a research buyer that mainly means faster time from unboxing to running published control policies.
Is the Futurist made in the USA?+
Faraday Future is a US-listed company (FFAI) and launched the robot at Automate in Chicago, and the product is positioned as a US offering. The company has not published a detailed manufacturing or component-sourcing breakdown, so the depth of that domestic content is not established.
What else is in the FF EAI Robot lineup?+
Six series in three categories: humanoids Futurist, Master and Nova; quadrupeds Aegis and Navi (the FX Navi is $1,990); and the Faber mobile-manipulator series for industry. Only Futurist has published specs and a price - Master and Nova are named but undetailed.
Can I buy one now?+
Commercial ordering is open. Faraday Future reported exceeding its shipment targets with 100+ units in June 2026 and 220+ in the first half, but those numbers cover the whole six-series portfolio rather than the humanoid alone, and no Futurist-specific delivery count has been published.