The Manhattan humanoid gets a name: Futurist
From the Robots digest for Oct 28, 2026
Sources MSN Robotics & Automation News MSN
What happened: A humanoid robot named Futurist strolled through Manhattan on Tuesday, October 27, drawing a mix of fascination and unease from passersby, per a video report carried on MSN (published October 28, ~4:45 AM ET). In an interview published the same day (~4:50 PM ET), Robotics & Automation News has Faraday Future — best known as an electric-vehicle company — positioning robotics as a growing part of the business and moving from Chinese robot sourcing toward US-based manufacturing, while companion MSN coverage (~4:50 PM ET) of the weekend New York promotion prices the machine at $90,000.
What's genuinely new: The company-level strategy behind the roadshow robot — a chairman interview stating the shift from Chinese robot sourcing to US manufacturing, and a second reported price point ($90,000) beside the $89,000 figure from the October 25 Brooklyn Bridge Park debut. The machine is running a visible public-roadshow pattern rather than a factory or warehouse deployment.
Watch: Whether the sourcing shift produces named US plants, suppliers, or dates, any named deployment or customer behind the public outings, and investor-day disclosures from the company's newly listed robotics unit.