Formic

On a mission to put millions of robots to work.

[Formic @goformic]

The line doesn't slow down at 4:45 on a Friday.

Consistency is easy to take for granted until you remember how rare it actually is.

Have a good weekend, we'll see you Monday.

[Formic @goformic]

Most plants know what they produced yesterday. Few know why output dipped for 40 minutes on second shift. Formic Production Intelligence tracks the cause in real time, not the recap after the fact.

[Saman Farid @samanfarid]

New robot babies inbound

[Formic @goformic]

The labor shortage isn't coming. It's already here. Manufacturers who automate now aren't getting ahead... they're catching up.

[Formic @goformic]

Your best machinist doesn't want to load parts all day. Give the tedious work to a robot and let your people do the work that actually needs a human.

[Formic @goformic]

That's from the Deloitte and Manufacturing Institute study on the manufacturing skills gap. Here's the source: https://t.co/YEtHuaSaJT

Worth noting the study itself is a few years old at this point, but it's still the number most of the industry cites, and the trend it points to has only gotten more visible since.

[Formic @goformic]

2.1M U.S. manufacturing jobs unfilled by 2030. 72% of employers can't find workers. That's not a robots-vs-jobs story. That's an open-req story. Automation fills the shift nobody's applying for.

[Lorimer Ventures @LorimerVentures]

🇺🇸🏭Great piece by @blsuth at @business on how Tariffs won't fix U.S. manufacturing. Access to automation (E.g. @goformic) will.👇

💰The Problem: America is the 2nd largest manufacturer in the world and 75% of the 250,000 U.S. factories have <20 employees. In '26, over 90% those don't use a single robot and basic automation can cost $100K+ with full lines costing millions.

🧠The Solution: @samanfarid and @goformic's "Netflix for robots" fixes the math: pay monthly, skip the capex, skip the maintenance headcount.

🗞️🦾Read more here: https://t.co/JEGNbJECJm

[Vikash Kumar @Vikashplus]

The biggest gap in robotics is - deployment

[Formic @goformic]

- @samanfarid posted something recently that gets at why Formic exists: without a good robot or task in production, there's no ongoing deployment. Without ongoing deployment, there's no real data. Without real data, the models don't improve.

That loop only closes on your floor, running your parts, at production volume. That's the whole bet behind Full Service Automation.

[Formic @goformic]

Something new is coming out of Oakland. Formic's West Coast facility opens August 19, and it's where humanoid testing moves from lab talk to floor reality.

We've said it before: CPG and metal fab today, humanoids tomorrow. This is tomorrow getting closer.

RSVP: https://t.co/rTtyqKk9tB

[Formic @goformic]

542,000 industrial robots installed globally in 2024, more than double a decade ago (IFR). Most of that growth assumes you buy and own. RaaS means you scale the service instead of betting on hardware for volume you can't predict yet.

[Formic @goformic]

69% of manufacturers are now investing in robots to offset labor shortages, per a new CADDi/SME study. But buying hardware still means staffing, programming, and maintaining it. RaaS means you skip all three. No capex, no new headcount, just output.

[Formic @goformic]

Fun Friday question: what's more American than a manufacturing line that runs 24/7 without complaint? Happy early Fourth to every crew keeping production moving this weekend.

[Formic @goformic]

Most automation vendors sell you a robot and disappear after installation. Formic stays. Flat monthly rate covers the equipment, the integration, and the ongoing support for as long as the robot's on your line.

[Formic @goformic]

Land O'Frost runs high-volume production lines that can't afford unplanned downtime. Formic's automation keeps their end-of-line moving at the pace the order volume demands, no extra headcount, no capex approval delay. That's Full Service Automation doing its job on a floor that can't slow down.

[Formic @goformic]

Formic Production Intelligence turns every deployed robot into a data source. Cycle times, uptime, throughput, all visible in real time. You can't optimize what you can't see.

[Formic @goformic]

The roles hardest to fill aren't disappearing. They're just going unfilled. Palletizing. Case packing. End-of-line.

[Formic @goformic]

Deirdre Miller plays D2 basketball at Florida Tech, studies aerospace engineering, and is spending her summer assembling control panels and programming robots at Formic.

Her advice to other scholar-athletes: "Keep pushing. It will work out, just don't give up."

Formic is proud to support the next generation of engineers.

https://t.co/NhuQ6XbIGL

[Formic @goformic]

A 90-year-old snack company tripled production capacity, hit 98% uptime, and added 100 employees to their rural Ohio community.

Watch how Wyandot Snacks built an automation program that actually works.