Faraday Future Pushes RoboShare Rental Platform for Robots

Faraday Future, the California-based electric vehicle maker, is expanding into humanoid and quadruped robots with a manufacturing plan that includes a rental and sharing platform aimed at making robots available without outright purchase.

The platform, called RoboShare, is operated by AIxC, a company in which Faraday Future is the majority shareholder. FF describes RoboShare as an "Uber + Turo"-style service intended to let businesses rent and operate robots as shared productive assets rather than buying them directly.

According to the company, RoboShare has completed its first paid commercial order and secured a one-year robot rental agreement worth $33,000. Faraday Future also said shipments from its broader robotics business have exceeded 400 units and generated a positive contribution margin in the first half of the year.

The rental push is tied to a wider manufacturing strategy detailed at FF's first EAI Robotics "Built in USA" Upstream & Downstream Business Partner Conference, held at the company's Los Angeles headquarters. FF plans to bring a US robotics factory online by the end of 2026, evaluating both a retrofit of its existing Hanford, California EV plant and new facility sites. The first robot from its "Built in USA" program is targeted to roll off the line in February 2027.

The initial two products behind this rental and manufacturing push are Next Futurist, a full-size humanoid aimed at research, education, industrial applications, services and inspection, and Next Aegis, a quadruped built for education, inspection and security uses.

Faraday Future founder and global CEO YT Jia framed the effort around what he called embodied AI (EAI) robotics, saying such companies combine an intelligent brain, foundation models, physical embodiment and the ability to generalize across tasks. The company says it plans to invest at least $5 billion in the US over the next decade and launch three to five new robotics products annually, while also opening recruitment for distributors and solution providers who could support rental and sales channels alongside direct manufacturing.

Sources: Robotics & Automation News — original article.