FF Nova
2 490 USD
Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc.
FF Nova is Faraday Future’s $2,490 mini humanoid for developers and educators, launched in October 2026. At 49.7 cm and 2.8 kg with 20 DoF, 10 TOPS onboard compute, LiDAR, a 3D ToF sensor, voice LLM and an open SDK, it walks on two legs or rides a detachable wheeled base.
Skill Score
2
Specifications and details:
| Availability | In production |
|---|---|
| Nationality | US |
| Website | https://robotics.ff.com/us/ |
| Degrees of freedom, overall | 20 |
| Degrees of freedom, hands | 0 |
| Height [cm] | 49.7 |
| Max speed (km/h) | 2.9 |
| Strength [kg] | 0.3 |
| Weight [kg] | 2.8 |
| Runtime pr charge (hours) | 1 |
| Safe with humans | Yes in practice (small and lightweight) |
| CPU/GPU | 10 TOPS on-device compute, 8 GB RAM, 32 GB storage |
| Ingress protection | N/A |
| Camera resolution | 4 MP wide-angle camera / 3D ToF sensor and 2D LiDAR |
| Connectivity | BLE 5.4, Dual-band Wi-Fi 6 |
| Operating system | N/A |
| LLM integration | Yes: voice large model, Open AI Agent integration; supports LLMs and VLA models on device |
| Latency glass to action | N/A |
| Motor tech | Electric servo actuators |
| Gear tech | N/A |
| Main structural material | N/A |
| Number of fingers | 0 |
| Main market | Developers, K–12 STEM education, University research |
| Verified | Verified |
| Walking Speed [km/h] | 2 |
| Color | White |
| Shipping Size | N/A |
| Manufacturer | Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc. |
Description
FF Nova is a small humanoid robot from Faraday Future, the Los Angeles electric-vehicle maker, and its sister company FF EAI Robotics Ecosystem (FFR). The companies launched it on October 15, 2026, calling it America’s first true embodied AI humanoid under $2,500. Nova stands about 50 cm tall and weighs just 2.8 kg. As a result, you can pick it up with one hand and carry it in a backpack. Faraday Future calls it a “physical AI lab in a backpack.”
Nova targets developers, universities and schools. For example, developers can train new skills in simulation and then test them on the real robot. This is the same workflow that full-size humanoids use, but at a fraction of the cost. In addition, an open SDK, ROS 2 support and a Skills Store let users build and share new behaviors. Faraday Future also offers a reinforcement learning program built on NVIDIA’s Isaac platform.
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The robot moves in two ways. It walks on two legs, and it can also ride a detachable wheeled base for faster travel. Meanwhile, a 2D LiDAR, a wide-angle camera and a 3D depth sensor help it see and map its surroundings. Three microphones let it recognize who is speaking and from which direction. An expressive face display and lights give it a friendly personality.
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Nova also carries AI on board. A voice language model handles natural conversation, and an AI agent lets it act on instructions, even sent remotely. Moreover, it supports navigation, language models and vision-language-action models running on its own processor. Faraday Future is rolling it out in phases, starting with 100 invitation-only units for developers and schools. In short, Nova makes hands-on humanoid AI development affordable and portable.
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Website: https://robotics.ff.com/us/nova/
