This Silicon Valley city is quietly becoming Robot Row. Here's who's clanking around.

iStock; Tyler Le/BI Fremont has been the manufacturing and industrial hub of Silicon Valley for the past few decades. Today, robotics companies are drawn to the city's mix of talent and manufacturing expertise. Agility Robotics, Tesla, Meta, and Zoox are among the players that have a foothold in the city. On a Thursday afternoon, about 70 people gathered around a nearly six-foot-tall humanoid robot outside an unassuming office building. Employees, executives, and board members of Agility Robotics , along with local officials, had come to christen the humanoid startup's new engineering hub: a 60,000-square-foot facility where nearly 200 existing and new employees will work on the AI and skills for its Digit bipedal robot. The ribbon-cutting didn't take place in San Francisco, Palo Alto, or San Jose, where some leading robotics companies have decided to cluster.