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Industry City emerges as Brooklyn hub for robotics, logistics and retail tech
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Fusion42 · 17 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
Industry City in Brooklyn has become a hub for e-commerce logistics, robotics, and fulfillment companies, with Highline Commerce and Ultra Robotics co-locating to deploy humanoid robots at scale in order fulfillment—a model enabled by affordable real estate and shared infrastructure that rivals cannot replicate in higher-cost tech hubs.
This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Logistics Tech.
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If you're building logistics or fulfillment tech outside New York, you're now competing against companies with access to sub-$30/sq-ft warehouse space, enterprise power and fibre, and on-site robotics talent—all at a cost advantage Silicon Valley and suburban logistics parks cannot match. That clustering advantage is real and it's becoming structural.
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