FF Faber S

Every robot arm ever installed has lived inside an invisible sphere — the radius it can reach, beyond which the world simply doesn't exist. The FF Faber S was built by stretching that sphere until it stopped being a limit. As the longest-reaching model in Faraday Future's Faber line — the first industrial-grade Embodied AI mobile manipulator series in the United States ready for commercial sale — the Faber S pairs the widest arm span in the family with a chassis that drives itself anywhere the work is, dual arms that handle the task when it arrives, and something no conventional industrial machine carries at all: the series' most complete embodied-intelligence data-collection toolchain, turning every task it performs into training material for the AI behind it. Machine tending, material handling and logistics runs across a factory floor by day; research, teaching and data harvesting for the next generation of physical AI in the same body — which is exactly why FF chose to debut it not at an industrial fair but at ISTE Live 26 on 30 June 2026, in front of the educators and researchers who will put its reach to its second use.

The FF Faber S is available for purchase internationally through this page, with delivery, customs clearance and after-sales support arranged for buyers across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Asia-Pacific and worldwide.

Background

Three trims, three temperaments

Faraday Future — the NASDAQ-listed California company whose EAI Robot World spans humanoids, quadrupeds and manipulators under one shared brain — structures the Faber series as a division of industrial labour. The Faber U is the perception flagship, carrying Thor AI compute, dual LiDAR and multi-camera sensing for the most autonomous missions; the Faber T is the hazardous-duty specialist, fielded in power inspection, energy infrastructure and data centres, up to and including high-risk work like operating electrical switches; and the Faber S is the wide-area generalist — reach where the others have focus. Its brief is the sprawling task geography of real facilities: workstations at awkward depths, shelving beyond a standard envelope, machine groups spread across a hall — the jobs where the difference between a manipulator that fits and one that doesn't is measured in centimetres of arm span. All three share the series formula that lets FF call Faber a category of its own: the precision of a fixed robotic arm, the autonomous mobility of an AMR and the flexible dual-arm operation of a humanoid system, on an open platform built for specialised industrial use.

The robot that feeds the brain

The Faber S's second identity is written into its toolchain. Modern embodied AI is trained on demonstrations — humans guiding robots through tasks, at scale, until the skill generalises — and the machines that collect those demonstrations have become infrastructure in their own right. The Faber S ships as the Faber family's dedicated harvester: the most complete embodied-intelligence data-collection toolchain in the series, mounted on the longest arms, so demonstrations span the full working volume of real industrial tasks. Within FF's Device-Data-Brain flywheel, that gives the S a compounding role — the tasks it performs and the demonstrations it records flow into the shared EAI brain whose improvements return to every Faber, Futurist and Master in the field as downloadable SKILLS. A factory buys it as a worker; a laboratory buys it as an instrument; FF's ecosystem benefits either way, and so, by design, does every machine on the platform.

Technical Overview

Faraday Future has not yet published the Faber S's full engineering datasheet; arm reach figures, payload, chassis dimensions, endurance and certifications are confirmed against manufacturer documentation at quotation.

Why does reach decide so much?

Because facilities are built for human arms, and human arms cheat — we lean, step, stretch and reposition without noticing. A mobile manipulator with a modest envelope recreates the fixed arm's problem on wheels: it drives to the workstation, then discovers the part sits thirty centimetres past its fingertips, and the integration budget goes into repositioning strategies, custom fixtures and excluded tasks. Span is what makes generality real. The Faber S's class-leading reach means one docking position covers a full machine face, a deep bench or a wide shelf bay; fewer repositioning cycles mean faster task times; and whole categories of work — tending large equipment, serving spread-out stations, wide-area picking — move from "excluded" to "routine." The same geometry pays twice in its research role: demonstration data collected across a larger working volume trains models that generalise to more of the physical world, which is precisely why the data-toolchain and the long arms share one machine.

Who is the FF Faber S for?

For manufacturers and factory operators automating machine tending and material movement across stations too dispersed or too deep for standard-envelope machines; for warehouse and logistics teams whose handling tasks range over wide bays and mixed fixtures; for universities, institutes and corporate AI labs that need an embodied-AI data-collection instrument with industrial-grade arms — the buyer FF courted by debuting the S at an education technology show; for robotics programmes teaching manipulation on hardware their graduates will meet in industry; and for integrators building wide-area applications on the open Faber platform. Operators whose duty is hazardous infrastructure will find the Faber T alongside; those prioritising maximum onboard perception and autonomy, the Faber U — and mixed fleets share one ecosystem, one SKILLS economy and one American, exchange-listed supplier.

What is the FF Faber S used for?

1. Machine tending: loading, unloading and serving production equipment across full machine faces from single positions.
2. Material handling: dual-arm movement of parts, totes and materials through factory and warehouse floors.
3. Logistics operations: wide-area picking, sorting and transfer tasks across dispersed stations and shelving.
4. Embodied-AI data collection: demonstration capture at industrial scale through the series' fullest toolchain.
5. Research and teaching: manipulation, mobile-manipulation and learning curricula on commercial-grade hardware.
6. Reception and guided services: front-of-house and interactive roles the platform's flexible operation supports.

Pricing and Availability

The FF Faber S is available for purchase and international delivery through this page, from single units for factories and laboratories to multi-robot programmes and mixed Faber fleets with the T and U models quoted alongside; rental-based deployment through FF's RoboShare model can be explored where pilots precede purchase. As a newly launched platform whose configurations, toolchain packages and software provisioning are deployment-specific, price, cost and delivery timeline are confirmed by individual quotation; delivery, customs clearance and after-sales support are arranged worldwide. Purchase enquiries, datasheets and availability details for the FF Faber S are available on this page.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the FF Faber S?

The wide-area model of Faraday Future's Faber series — the first industrial-grade Embodied AI mobile manipulator line in the United States — distinguished by the longest arm reach in the family and its most complete embodied-intelligence data-collection toolchain, and debuted at ISTE Live 26 in June 2026.

What makes it different from the Faber U and Faber T?

Reach and role: the U is the perception flagship with Thor compute, dual LiDAR and multi-camera sensing; the T is the hazardous-duty specialist for power, energy and data-centre work; the S trades peak sensing for the widest arm span and the fullest data toolchain — the generalist for wide-area operations and AI training.

What industrial work does it perform?

Machine tending, material handling, logistics and factory operations — dual-arm manipulation delivered by an autonomously mobile platform whose reach covers deep benches, large equipment faces and dispersed stations from fewer positions.

What is the data-collection toolchain for?

Training embodied AI: it captures task demonstrations across the S's large working volume, producing the datasets on which manipulation models learn — feeding FF's Device-Data-Brain flywheel, where fleet experience improves the shared intelligence behind every FF robot.

Why did an industrial robot debut at an education show?

Because its second market is the classroom and the laboratory: FF presented the S at ISTE Live 26 within its EAI education ecosystem, where the same reach and toolchain that serve factories serve research, teaching and hands-on AI curricula.

How does it learn new tasks?

Through the FF ecosystem: capabilities arrive as downloadable SKILLS, developers build on the open platform's tools, and — uniquely central to the S — its own demonstration data contributes to the training of the skills the whole fleet receives.

Where can I buy the FF Faber S and what does it cost?

The FF Faber S is available through this page, with delivery, customs clearance and after-sales support arranged for buyers worldwide. As a newly launched, deployment-configured platform, buyers should request an individual quotation. All purchasing details are available on this page.

Summary

The FF Faber S answers the quiet question that decides most automation projects — can it reach? — with the longest arms in America's first commercial EAI mobile-manipulator series, then adds a second profession no industrial machine has carried before: harvesting the demonstrations that teach the AI itself. It tends machines, moves material and runs logistics across working volumes that strand its rivals, and in laboratories and classrooms it becomes the instrument through which the next generation of embodied intelligence — and its students — learn. One long-armed craftsman, two careers, one ever-improving brain behind both. For the factory that needs the reach and the lab that needs the data, this page is the starting point.