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###### Diane Choi  Marketing Analyst

###### Thursday, August 26, 2021

# Reuters

LIVERMORE, Calif., Aug 26 (Reuters) - Silicon Valley has a new pitch to persuade small companies to automate: rent-a-robot.

Better technology and the need to pay higher wages to humans have produced a surge in sales of robots to big companies all across America. But few of these automatons are making it into smaller factories, which are wary of big upfront costs and lacking robot engineering talent. [Read more>](https://www.reuters.com/technology/rent-a-robot-silicon-valleys-new-answer-labor-shortage-smaller-us-factories-2021-08-26/)