Faraday Future would love you to buy an $89,900 robot. As a part of its newest revamp, the embattled electrical automotive firm is now pitching a lineup of robots, together with humanoids, quadrupeds and a robotic arm. If that identify would not ring any bells, that might be as a result of the corporate has been going by a little bit of a pivot over the previous yr in an try to salvage its backside line, if not its status.
That is change into one thing of a theme for Faraday. The enterprise generated a good bit of hype years earlier than it confirmed off its first production-ready electric car at CES 2017. Its leaders actually had lofty goals. However within the nearly decade since, each the business and its founder, YT Jia, skilled monetary tumult. Compounded by about a dozen lawsuits, internal turmoil, layoffs and but extra confusion round cash, lots of Faraday’s plans went on maintain. It confirmed. In January 2025, it mentioned it had offered “15 or 16” automobiles.
Nonetheless, Faraday Future returned to CES that yr promising a brand new electrical minivan and a “fresh start.” The return of founder YT Jia as sole international CEO in Could of this yr as half of a bigger govt shakeup would possibly imply a unfastened definition of “contemporary.” The corporate remains to be placing work into its EV technique, with the primary pre-production mannequin of its FX Tremendous One MPV van completed in December. However now it appears to be taking a web page from Tesla’s book and directing extra vitality into robotics.
This month, Faraday Future shared some new particulars about its robotics lineup. There is a quadruped mannequin referred to as Navi that appears to be focused towards youngsters for studying embodied AI. That one begins at just below $2,000, however you could have to pay further to present it a 3D-printed canine head. The corporate additionally has a brand new model of its humanoid mannequin referred to as Futurist. The 5’8″ robotic, outfitted with NVIDIA Sonic’s full-body movement management system, is on sale for simply shy of $90K. It is also promoting an industrial-grade robotic arm that it is calling a “cellular manipulator product.” There isn’t any public pricing, which is probably going code for unbelievably costly, even for enterprise prospects.
Regardless of the huge worth tags and a historical past one might most politely name spotty, the corporate appears to be relying on no less than some gross sales. Based on its newest press release, Faraday Future claims to count on shipments of greater than 100 robotics items in June and that complete shipments for the primary six months on the yr are “anticipated to surpass our unique goal of 220 items.” Hey, no less than it is higher than 15.
