At Hirebotics, we know you want to scale your business, improve production quality, and avoid the dreaded backlog. To do that, you need to either hire new talent or scale the output of your existing staff.
It's harder than ever to find skilled fabricators and metal workers. But, even if you do, retaining them is another entirely different thing. Unfortunately, this leaves you overworked, backlogged, and unable to scale.
We believe the key to moving forward is equipping your existing employees with the tools that increase their output, not just relying on new talent. If your team used a hand file to bevel the welding joints instead of an angle grinder, you'd be neck-deep in backlogs. So, it's the tool that makes the difference when put in the right hands — your fabricator's hands.
Automation is the future. But this future includes welders and other metal workers. They don't need to be robotics experts or programmers to automate and improve their and your productivity.
Democratizing automation and making it accessible is the goal. This is what we do. This is what we believe. Each and every one of your metal workers can learn to use our cobots in hours, not days.
The Hirebotics duo was approached by Red-D-Arc, a division of Airgas. Their team detected an untapped opportunity. Red-D-Arc rented welding equipment, and Hirebotics was specialized in robotics. How about the two companies getting together to make a welding cobot? The first generation of the collaborative robotic welder was born: BotX.
However, Hirebotics soon realized that even with cobots, welding teams and shops continued to struggle with programming.
The industry, in general, was still finding it difficult to recruit automation engineers to set up, configure and troubleshoot the cobots. Matthew and Rob knew there was still an issue: now, welding teams and shops had a double problem: finding both welders and robot programmers.
So Hirebotics innovated yet again to develop the first cobot that users could control using an intuitive smartphone app, Beacon. In just a few taps and without any sophisticated robotics experience, manual welders could actually teach the cobot to weld parts of all sizes and complexity.
Cobot Welder, Hirebotics’ welding cobot, and its smartphone app, Beacon, including a suite of cloud-based cobot tools to maximize uptimes, were launched at Fabtech in 2021.
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