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Faraday Future, in collaboration with Jia Yuting, held a presentation of embodied artificial intelligence (EAI) robots on September 20th, introducing nine new robot configurations and four solutions for enhancing productivity across various industries.

These models include humanoid and quadrupedal form factors from the Futurist, Master, and Aegis lines, with a starting retail price of $9,990 USD. Jia Yuting, the founder, explained this leap forward is achieved by creating a multi-bodied robot ecosystem that relies on an overarching EAI brain, agents, skills, and real-world scenario data, without requiring equity or funding.

The next-generation Futurist model is positioned as a full-sized professional humanoid robot with 51 active degrees of freedom, which can be increased to 71 with the installation of an enhanced dexterous hand. It is equipped with two batteries totaling 1,152 Wh, provides about eight hours of standard operation, and supports autonomous charging.

The Ultra variant of this model utilizes NVIDIA Jetson Thor, providing approximately 700 TOPS, and is intended for research purposes, embodied development, corporate services, and industrial applications. The standard Ultra configuration costs $89,900, while the Ultra version is priced at $129,900.

The Master Mini is aimed at education and sports competitions. This robot, standing about 95 cm tall and weighing 19.5 kg, is available in three performance tiers (48, 117, and 200 TOPS) at prices of $9,990, $12,990, and $17,990, respectively.

The Aegis line features wheeled-legged models. The Classic Ultra-W is a lightweight companion for security, weighing about 22 kg and costing $12,990. The Mega is a medium-sized industrial unit capable of carrying a payload of up to 50 kg, climbing continuous stairs up to 25 cm high and obstacles up to 80 cm high, equipped with hot-swappable dual batteries, and providing at least five hours of unloaded operation; its price is $74,990. The Hyper is a large industrial quadruped robot designed for heavy-duty work in extreme conditions, with a starting price of $137,900.

The four solution packages cover needs in K-12 education using Blockly, Python, and ROS curricula; research; security through multi-robot patrolling and multimodal alerts; and inspection of energy, power supply, manufacturing, and mining facilities.

Faraday Future announced that its EAI robot world has transitioned to version 2.0, including humanoid, quadrupedal, and wheeled-manipulator robot families in the Futurist, Master, Aegis, Navi, and Faber models. A total of eleven models and 24 products have been presented, among which nine new configurations have been priced.

The cybernetic robotics firm Huaruizhipu has introduced its Praxis One platform. This platform is an edge computing system based on the MediaTek Genio Pro 5100 chip and was demonstrated at an industry event in Hangzhou during the 9th China Robotics Summit on September 17th.

Praxis One is positioned as a high-performance computing module for heavy humanoid and robotic systems, rather than a smartphone product. It integrates multimodal tasks on the device, along with vision and language tasks and real-time motion control, onto a single chip.

Huaruizhipu emphasizes that its design differs from common separated stacks where a cognitive accelerator is placed next to a separate motion microcontroller. By integrating high-level decision-making and low-latency control on a single SoC, it achieves reduced inter-chip latency, decreased data loss, and simplified board design.

There is also a lighter version, Praxis Nano, which uses the MediaTek Genio 720 and is intended for medium robots and closed-loop motion systems with sensors. While Praxis One focuses on multimodal perception, VLA policies, lightweight world models, local large model inference, and complex task planning on more massive platforms.

MediaTek and its partners indicate that the Genio Pro 5100 is an eight-core processor based on the Arm v9.2 architecture with a 3nm process, equipped with an eighth-generation NPU capable of operating at approximately 106 TOPS. Furthermore, it supports up to 16 FHD camera virtual channels, Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6.0, and optional 5G.

On-device inference of the Qwen3-7B model is estimated at about 23 tokens per second, allowing scene understanding and dialogue to be maintained even when disconnected from the cloud. The system is designed for industrial use across a wide temperature range, from -40°C to 105°C, making it suitable for deployment in factories and outdoors.

Huaruizhipu also presented complementary components of its system: peripheral data collection hardware under the brand RuiMou, a physically constrained world and robot scene model, and ready-made packages for OEMs and laboratories. The official English name of the company is poorly documented outside of Chinese materials and the website harmony-robot.com; Huaruizhipu is used here as the corporate name, and Praxis One as the trademark pending clearer global confirmation.