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Faraday Future’s All-New Futurist humanoid, which the company lists at $89,900, reportedly spent a Sunday walking, singing and dancing with visitors in Brooklyn Bridge Park. The New York Post reports that the company’s CTO was steering it with a handheld remote while he talked to a Post photographer. By the only account available, the viral “babysitter robot” was a teleoperated demo, not an autonomous caregiver.
What we know
Faraday Future’s official store lists the FF All-New Futurist full-size humanoid at an MSRP of $89,900 for the Standard model. The Ultra is $129,900. The “$89,000” figure in headlines is a rounding, not the real price.
The store listing gives the robot as 68 inches tall, 119 pounds, with 31 degrees of freedom. It also states that a handheld remote comes in the package. Faraday Future’s product page advertises it “From $89,900” and credits NVIDIA SONIC for whole-body motion control.
The listed use cases are education, research, guided tours, reception, marketing activations, entertainment and competition. Home use is not on that list. The listing says “home service to follow” and recommends adult supervision.
The company’s pricing has moved a lot this year. At the NADA Show on February 4, 2026, Faraday Future launched its robotics line with the Futurist starting at $34,990. The company said more than 1,200 units were covered by non-binding, non-refundable B2B deposits, according to company statements reported by Assembly Magazine. A June 16 SEC exhibit said All-New Futurist pricing would come at Automate. An 8-K summary of the company’s September “919” event says the robot then went on sale at $89,900 and $129,900. The $34,990 launch price applied to the prior-generation Futurist; the current FF shop page lists the All-New Futurist at $89,900.
What is rumored
The New York Post reports that on Sunday, October 25, 2026, a Faraday Future humanoid walked, sang to children and danced with visitors in Brooklyn Bridge Park. The Post is a major outlet with a mixed record on tech coverage. Hoodline, Livemint, IBTimes UK and others repeated its account, but we found no independent confirmation and no Faraday Future press release about the outing.
According to the Post, CTO Hong Rao said the robot is meant to learn to interact with and nurture people. He reportedly said it could eventually work as a babysitter, teacher or companion. That is an aspiration, not a product claim.
The same Post account, relayed by IBTimes UK and a repost of the story, says Rao steered the robot with a small handheld remote during the outing. The store listing confirms a remote ships in the box, which fits this account. It does not confirm what happened in the park.
A secondhand repost of the Post story also carries the operators’ claim that the robot improves its intelligence, movement and navigation through human interaction and real-world experience. That claim is graded D: it is the company’s own description, nothing independent supports it, and no method or model was disclosed.
What we don’t know yet
We don’t know whether the robot did anything autonomously in the park, or whether every step and dance move came from the remote.
We don’t know what “learning” means here. No data-collection method, training pipeline or model was described in any coverage we found.
There is no date for “home service.” Hoodline cites Forbes for a U.S. factory by the end of 2026, a first device by February 2027 and Made-in-USA production by Q4 2028. We have not checked that reporting independently.
None of the outlets we track for robotics, including IEEE Spectrum, The Robot Report, TechCrunch, Reuters and Bloomberg, has covered the Brooklyn outing.
What it means
Headlines that described the robot as “unleashed” or “mingling” on its own oversold the event. The best available account describes a person driving a humanoid through a crowd. That shows the hardware can walk, balance and perform near people in a public space. It shows nothing about childcare.
Teleoperation can be a route to robot training data, but Faraday Future has not said that is what happened in Brooklyn. Until the company publishes how its robot learns, the “learning” label is marketing.
For buyers, the picture is simpler than the hype. Today you can order a $89,900 humanoid sold for reception desks, tours, classrooms and labs, with adult supervision recommended. The babysitter is a pitch, and the company’s own listing says so.
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