Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc. is racing to bring a robotics factory online in the United States by the end of 2026, with the first robot built under the effort set to roll off the line in February 2027, according to an SEC filing detailing the company’s manufacturing roadmap.
A shift from cars to robots
The Nasdaq-listed company, long known for its struggling FF 91 electric vehicle program, has spent 2026 building out a parallel robotics business under its FF EAI Robotics unit.
Faraday Future Announced an Execution Roadmap for Its “Built in USA” Acceleration Program and Launched Distributor Recruitment, targeting to bring its robot factory online by year-end and first new EAI device product off the line in February 2027.
Faraday Future made the announcement at its first ever FF EAI Robotics “Built in USA” Upstream & Downstream Business Partner Conference at its LA headquarters, where it presented a three-phase execution roadmap for the program.
The event drew outside industry figures, including representatives from a federal procurement office and robotics suppliers, who according to the company’s release spoke favorably of its manufacturing and compliance capabilities.
Investment and production targets
Faraday Future has attached a significant dollar figure to the plan. The company says it plans to invest at least $5 billion in the United States over the next 10 years and launch and manufacture three to five new or next-generation robotics products in the country each year.
The near-term phase of that plan runs through early next year. Phase One, completed by July 2026, established core AI brain, data and developer platforms; Phase Two, through Q1 2027, targets bringing a U.S. robot factory online by year-end and producing the first new EAI device in February 2027 .
The longer-term goal is achieving “Made in USA” status for key devices and components by the fourth quarter of 2028, as FF’s ultimate goal is to achieve “Made in USA” for its EAI Devices, the parts required for FCC compliance, and a group of critical parts capable of driving major advances across the industry .
A later update refined the timeline slightly. FF is advancing Phase Two of its “Built in USA” Acceleration Program, including the rollout of its Next Futurist and Next Aegis robotics series and the continued development of U.S.-based supply-chain, compliance, certification and manufacturing capabilities.
The Company is targeting the start of operations at its U.S. robotics factory by the end of 2026, with the first new EAI robot from the U.S. production line targeted for the first quarter of 2027.
Financial pressure looms over the roadmap
The robotics push comes as Faraday Future faces a tight cash position. At June 30, 2026, FFAI reported $11.196 million of cash and equivalents and $25.055 million of second-quarter operating cash use. Using that quarter’s operating cash use as a backward-looking rate, the reported cash equals 40.7 days of operating cash use.
FFAI has begun its phased U.S. robotics roadmap, while the factory and first-device dates remain targets rather than completed milestones , according to a summary of the company’s filing.
Faraday Future has nonetheless continued expanding its robot product lineup through the fall. At its September 19 event, FF launched nine new EAI Device configurations across two robot forms, three product series and five models: FF All-New Futurist, FF Master Mini, FX Aegis Hyper, FX Aegis Mega and FX Aegis Classic Ultra-W. All nine products are now available for sale and delivery.
Faraday Future says the nine devices are immediately available for sale and delivery, with prices spanning $9,990 to $137,900 , according to the company’s product specifications shared at the launch.
Why the factory matters
If completed on schedule, the factory would mark Faraday Future’s transition from an auto startup best known for years of delayed vehicle deliveries into a domestic robotics manufacturer competing against better-funded humanoid developers.
The push also lands amid a broader wave of US and global companies racing to localize humanoid and embodied AI hardware production, a trend that echoes the kind of chip and compute buildouts GCN has tracked in data center capacity expansion and semiconductor plant investment elsewhere in the technology sector.
Faraday Future has not yet disclosed the specific site location for the new robot factory, though the company is evaluating a retrofit of its existing Hanford, California factory as well as possible locations for a new robotics facility , and has not confirmed whether the year-end timeline will hold.
