Disastrous EV startup looks to $90K humanoid for salvation

From cash crunches to vaporizing partnerships with major manufacturers despite a multi-billion dollar valuation and shipping just a handful of vehicles over the last 12 years, Faraday Future (FF) has had an awfully rough go of building an electric car brand.

The company's trying to turn things around by shifting focus to physical AI and robotics – sort of like Tesla. The company's just unveiled a lineup of six robots it intends to produce, using a unified platform.

That includes a bunch of quadrupeds, robotic arms for industrial applications, and a flagship humanoid robot which will run you about US$90,000.

FF is calling the Futurist an 'all-in-one professional expert' that will find use in academic research. It's actually an updated model which stands 5 ft 8-in (1.72-m) tall, and now features a full-body motion control system from Nvidia, as well as a new dual-battery setup for up to...

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