A Chicago-area startup that rents robots to factories around the country opened a plant in an old warehouse in the Bay Area to build out its growing fleet of so-called physical artificial intelligence as more sites in the region are leased outside the city of San Francisco or Silicon Valley.
Robotics firms grow beyond Silicon Valley as AI moves into the physical world
Robots-for-rent startup Formic opens San Francisco Bay Area factory
CoStar News
August 28, 2026 | 8:30 P.M.
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