Faraday Future’s ‘built in USA’ robots start with assembly of sourced hardware

Faraday Future, the electric-vehicle maker, is promoting a plan to open a US robot factory by the end of 2026 and to produce its first new robot there in February 2027, according to reports on October 7, 2026 by Robotics & Automation News and Humanoids Daily. The first products are a full-size humanoid called Next Futurist and a quadruped called Next Aegis.

The early work is final assembly and testing. Faraday Future says it is upgrading production lines and choosing a dedicated robotics site, and plans to increase domestic sourcing and manufacturing through the fourth quarter of 2028, with a combined capacity of 50,000 robots a year on its own lines within five years. Both are targets, not current output.

Whose robots are these?

Partly other companies’. Humanoids Daily found that the product page for Faraday Future’s Master Mini names Booster SDKs, Booster Gym and a Booster controller, and that its height, weight and degrees of freedom match Booster’s K1. The All-New Futurist’s height, battery capacity and weight closely match AGIBOT’s A3. Faraday Future’s product pages do not confirm a model-specific manufacturing agreement with either company, and its roadmap openly recruits outside robot makers for US adaptation, certification, assembly and market entry.

That does not mean Faraday Future adds nothing. Software, service, certification and US-made components can all be real contributions. But until a robot comes off its own line, the company’s robotics business is a channel for hardware designed elsewhere, apparently by Booster and AGIBOT, both Chinese companies.

Why “built in USA” is the selling point

US policy has turned against Chinese robots, most directly through the FCC rule on Chinese-made robots. Chinese makers are still taking US orders, as Astribot did for its $18,000 T1, but buyers increasingly want a domestic name on the box. Faraday Future is betting that assembly and certification in the US is a product in its own right while it builds toward sourcing.

The financing is unsettled. A company called FF EAI Robotics Ecosystem Inc., formerly AIxCrypto Holdings, has signed a non-binding term sheet to acquire Faraday Future’s robotics business at an estimated $200 million valuation; the deal is not complete, and financing and liquidity are listed among its risks. February 2027 is the first date to check.