FF EAI Robotics and Faraday Future Launch $2,490 FF Nova Embodied AI Humanoid Robot

FF EAI Robotics and California electric mobility company Faraday Future officially unveiled the FF Nova, an entry-level embodied artificial intelligence humanoid robot priced at $2,490, alongside the compact FF Nova Mini desktop platform priced at $299. Aimed at university laboratories, software engineers, and STEM educators across San Francisco, San Jose, and Berkeley, the hardware launch includes an optional $390 Developer Skills Package for the humanoid unit and a $499 curriculum for the Mini model. Phase One production is limited to 100 initial units, with the first 20 robots delivered immediately.

Alongside the hardware debut, the companies introduced the Physical AI Spark Program Curriculum and the Nova Reinforcement Learning Developer Program to standardize locomotion and manipulation training. Earlier this week, Faraday Future and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics jointly hosted an engineering and frontier-technology symposium at corporate headquarters featuring more than 50 university scholars and professors. Academic researchers from Bay Area engineering departments noted that bringing full-body humanoid hardware below $2,500 lowers capital barriers for reinforcement learning experimentation.

The product rollout follows a corporate restructuring finalized on Monday, October 12, 2026, when FF EAI Robotics (FFR) and Faraday Future (FFAI) signed definitive agreements for FFR to acquire FFAI's robotics assets and business at an approximate valuation of $200 million. Under the agreement, FFR will issue equity shares at $2.246 per share, representing an approximate 50 percent premium over FFR's closing price of $1.50 on October 12. Additionally, FFR secured up to $10 million in first-round PIPE financing at market pricing with no discount or warrants.

Robotics research committees, community college vocational boards, and workforce development officials across Santa Clara County and Alameda County are evaluating affordable embodied AI platforms for mechatronics training. While industrial humanoid systems often cost tens of thousands of dollars, sub-$2,500 developer platforms enable college departments and high school clubs to run simulation-to-real transfer tests within standard equipment budgets. Corporate officials confirmed that the $10 million PIPE funding will support supply chain scaling and SDK updates.

Robotics developers, academic department chairs, and institutional buyers can review hardware specifications, apply for the reinforcement learning program, and reserve Phase Two units online at ff.com. Technical support teams are hosting virtual onboarding sessions next Thursday at 2:00 PM Pacific Time to assist Phase One recipients with ROS 2 integration and policy deployment. Questions regarding curriculum licensing or bulk orders may be directed to the robotics developer relations team.