Faraday Future, Having Sold Roughly 15 Cars, Is Now Selling Humanoid Robots for $89,900

The EV That Wasn't, Now Selling Robots

Faraday Future has been promising a revolution in electric vehicles since before the first iPhone had a fingerprint reader. After nearly a decade of lawsuits, executive exits, layoffs, and financial chaos, the company reported in January 2025 that it had sold "15 or 16" vehicles total, according to Engadget.

Now it wants to sell you a humanoid robot.

On June 17, 2026, Faraday Future held a launch event at its El Segundo, California headquarters and unveiled what it calls the "FF EAI Robot World" — a lineup of six robot series spanning humanoids, quadrupeds, and industrial robotic arms, according to iEnvi. The company followed that up on June 23 at the Automate conference in Chicago, North America's largest robotics and automation event, where it unveiled the second half of the lineup, including a new industrial mobile manipulator called the FF Faber, per a Business Wire release published via Morningstar.

What They're Actually Selling

The centerpiece is the All-New Futurist humanoid. It stands 5'8" (1.73 meters), weighs 55 kilograms — a 14 percent reduction from previous versions — and runs NVIDIA Sonic's full-body motion control system, according to iEnvi. It has 31 degrees of freedom, a peak knee-joint torque of 320 Newton-meters, and a top speed of 17.7 km/h. A dual-battery system provides up to six hours of runtime. Price: just under $90,000.

The FX Navi is a quadruped robot aimed at children and education. It starts at $1,990, though Engadget notes the company apparently charges extra for a 3D-printed canine head. An educational partnership with an unspecified institution for a K-12 AI robotics summer camp curriculum is also in place, per the Los Angeles Business Journal.

Then there's the FF Faber mobile manipulator, an industrial-grade robotic arm. Faraday Future has not disclosed public pricing, per Engadget, which is standard practice when the price is designed to be negotiated rather than comparison-shopped.

The Investment and the Leadership

Founder YT Jia returned as sole global CEO in May 2026 as part of an executive shakeup, and co-founder Jerry Wang assumed the role of Global Executive Chair, according to the Los Angeles Business Journal. Wang told the publication that the robotics approach is "asset-light" and generating revenue with "positive gross margin on the product side," though he provided no specific revenue figures.

In April, the company landed a $45 million investment earmarked for its AI ecosystem, per the LA Business Journal. It also relocated its headquarters from Gardena to El Segundo, citing access to a stronger talent pipeline.

Shipment Targets vs. Track Record

Faraday Future claims it expects to ship more than 100 robotics units in June 2026 alone, with total first-half shipments expected to surpass 220 units, according to Engadget. Those are estimates the company put forward itself. No independent verification of delivered units has been published in these sources.

Faraday Future has made large public projections before and consistently failed to meet them. The company generated genuine industry buzz at CES 2017 with its FF 91 luxury EV, returned to CES in early 2025 promising a new electric minivan and a "fresh start," and completed a pre-production model of its FX Super One MPV van in December 2025, per Engadget. The car business is still described as ongoing, not abandoned.

The Strongest Case for Taking This Seriously

The fair version of the bull argument: Faraday Future actually has more relevant infrastructure for robotics than most startups entering the space. Ten years of EV development means battery systems expertise, supply chain relationships, and manufacturing experience with high-tolerance physical hardware. The iEnvi analysis — written for Australian engineering professionals evaluating field robotics — points out that falling compute costs, mature battery technology, and open-source vision-language-action (VLA) models are genuinely collapsing the cost of deploying autonomous physical agents. The FX Navi at $1,990 is priced in consumer territory, not research-lab territory. That is a real market shift, and FF is not the only hardware company exploiting it.

Jerry Wang's argument to the LA Business Journal — that automotive experience creates an "early-mover advantage" in physical AI — is not inherently absurd. The supply chain for robotics and automotive is, by Wang's own account, about 80 percent the same.

The Obvious Problem

The obvious problem is that Faraday Future is NOT a company with a proven record of shipping at scale. It sold approximately 15 vehicles over nearly a decade. The internal discipline needed to ship 220 units of a new product line on time, at spec, to paying customers is exactly the discipline this company has failed to demonstrate.

The company also trades on NASDAQ under the ticker FFAI, and it has a documented history of shareholder dilution and financial turbulence. None of these sources provide a current share price or market cap, so no stock-price claims are made here.

No regulatory investigation or charges related to the current robotics pivot have been announced. Any concern about whether the 220-unit shipment target constitutes a forward-looking statement subject to SEC disclosure rules is a question these sources do not answer, and it remains open.