Faraday Future's $2,490 FF Nova humanoid: 20 DoF, 10 TOPS, built to break your sim2real policies
AIFlow_ML · x · 2026-10-24
Faraday Future launched the FF Nova desktop humanoid at $2,490 (+$390 dev skills): 49.7cm tall, 2.8kg, 20 DoF, 10 TOPS, 8GB RAM/32GB storage, 2D LiDAR + 3D ToF, 4MP wide camera, three-mic array. It walks at just 0.1 m/s (0.8 m/s on a wheeled base) and clears 2cm obstacles. Open SDK, ROS 2, RL/Sim2Real with NVIDIA Isaac. Positioned not as a chore robot but a desk-sized body to stress-test sim-to-real policies. Phase one: 100 units, invitation-only, 7-day window.
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