Faraday Future's Nine-SKU Humanoid Robot Lineup: Pricing from $9,990 to $137,900

Forum topic · 小凯 · 2026-09-21

Summary

On September 20, 2026, Faraday Future held an EAI robotics launch event in Los Angeles, unveiling five model families across nine SKUs and four industry solution packages, priced from $9,990 to $137,900, with sales and deliveries opening the same day. The lineup spans full-size humanoids (FF All-New Futurist at $89,900 and Futurist Ultra with NVIDIA Jetson Thor at $129,900), compact humanoids (Master Mini series from $9,990 to $17,990), wheeled-legged units (FX Aegis Classic Ultra-W at $12,990, Aegis Mega at $74,990), and a large industrial quadruped (Aegis Hyper from $137,900). The technology stack follows a 'one brain, many bodies' architecture using a shared EAI foundation with VLA and world models. Four industry packages target K-12 education, research, security, and inspection. The article also notes conflicting specs reported in media (degree-of-freedom and battery-life figures), founder Jia Yueting's outstanding debt and FF 91 delivery record (16 units as of April 2026), and frames the release as an automotive-style SKU ladder whose real test is the delivery ledger.

At a car dealership, you quickly get used to one thing: the same car split into seven or eight price tiers by configuration. On September 20, 2026, Faraday Future applied the same playbook to robots at its EAI robotics launch event in Los Angeles: five model families, nine SKUs, four industry solutions, priced from $9,990 to $137,900 — on sale and entering delivery the same day. Founder Jia Yueting described it as the completion of the 'Robot World 2.0' lineup with 'one brain, many forms.'

This is not one robot. It is a shelf.

Key points

Nine price tags, three chassis types. The nine SKUs map to full-size humanoids (Futurist), compact humanoids (Master Mini), and wheeled-legged/quadruped units (Aegis family) — differentiated mainly by compute tiers and form factor, not nine distinct machine designs.
Flagship specs (vendor claims): Futurist: ~173 cm, ~51 active DoF (71 with dexterous hands upgrade), 1,152Wh dual battery, ~8 hours standard operation, autonomous charging — $89,900 (incl. $10,000 skill package). Futurist Ultra adds NVIDIA Jetson Thor (~700 TOPS) with VLA and world models for task planning — $129,900. Master Mini: ~95 cm, ~19.5 kg, 48/117/200 TOPS across three tiers ($9,990/$12,990/$17,990). Aegis Classic Ultra-W: lightweight wheeled-legged, ~22 kg, security/companion — $12,990. Aegis Mega: 50 kg payload, 25 cm stairs, 80 cm obstacle clearance, hot-swappable dual battery — $74,990. Aegis Hyper: heavy-duty industrial quadruped — from $137,900.
Conflicting figures reported. Most Chinese media report 51 active DoF (up to 71 upgraded); other coverage says 31 DoF total. Battery life is likewise reported as both '~8 hours standard conditions' and 'up to 6 hours.' No cross-verification was provided on launch day.
'One brain, many bodies' architecture. A shared EAI foundation using VLA (vision-language-action) plus world models adapts to humanoid, quadruped, wheeled-legged, and wheeled-arm bodies. The vendor says motion control and EAI model training have entered engineering testing and delivery phases, and its in-house EAI brain loop is 'initially closed' — a vendor claim without third-party validation.
Four industry solution packages target K-12 education (Blockly → Python → ROS curriculum with competition system), research (Futurist positioned as the first body natively compatible with NVIDIA Sonic full-size humanoid motion control — a vendor claim), security (multi-robot management, autonomous patrol), and inspection (Aegis Mega for campus patrol, Hyper for extreme environments).
A pricing benchmark the same day: Syntronic-linked Qiyuan Robotics launched consumer robots Q1 and T1 in Shanghai from RMB 19,999, targeting home scenarios — pushing robots into mainstream consumer price perception from two directions at once.

The delivery ledger

Any shelf-style price list must be cashed in through deliveries. Public reporting records: roughly $3.21 billion (~RMB 23 billion) in cumulative funding from FF's 2014 founding to 2026; only 16 FF 91 units delivered (including leases) as of April 2026; resumed enforcement amounts approaching RMB 5 billion in 2026; and Jia Yueting's personal case total around RMB 18.4 billion, with over RMB 9.2 billion unfulfilled and 47 consumption-restriction orders. These are public reporting figures, not regulatory findings. Their role here is only to provide a verifiable fulfillment history against the nine price tags. One plus for the event: per Pandaily, the promotion was stated to involve no stock or financing hooks — putting the evaluation standard squarely on delivery numbers.

Can the goods match the shelf?

Past humanoid launches typically followed 'one flagship + one demo video.' This batch instead commoditizes bodies into price tiers and pulls procurement decisions into pre-sales packages — covering not just budget ranges but procurement complexity across schools, labs, campuses, and mines. The risks are built into the structure: nine SKUs require four distinct spare-part and service networks; one brain spanning four body types means any form factor's failure feeds back into the same model iteration queue; solution packages depend heavily on local integrators who cannot be verified at a launch event; and ultimately, the ledger question: how many of those $9,990 units shipped within 90 days.

A price tag answers what a robot costs. It cannot answer whether it can do real work.

References

1. Pandaily, *Faraday Future and Jia Yueting Launch Nine EAI Robots From $9,990*, 2026-09-20. https://pandaily.com/faraday-future-jia-yueting-nine-eai-robots-9990 2. Fenghuang Tech (via 163.com), *Jia Yueting launches 9 robots: humanoid and quadruped, from $9,990*, 2026-09-20. https://www.163.com/dy/article/L78S3JF90556I485.html 3. TechWeb (via 163.com), *Jia Yueting releases 9 robots in one go*, 2026-09-20. https://www.163.com/dy/article/L79H931405119MAU.html 4. Sina Tech / Tencent News, *Jia Yueting launches nine robots, most expensive at RMB 920,000*, 2026-09-20. https://news.qq.com/rain/a/20260920A0BZNW00 5. CNMO / Fenghuang, *Nine EAI robot configurations unveiled, from $9,990*, 2026-09-20. https://h5.ifeng.com/c/vivoArticle/v002b8xitAkg3bDUG81wQdVsCA8fkGt2pcbOT--vXae4o2n0