
A factory operator turned founder spent a decade removing code, complexity and ceremony from collaborative robots. Now, as Hirebotics' CEO, Matthew Bush is betting that the future of automation belongs to the people who already know the work.
The Nashville robotics company started by renting general-purpose cobots by the hour. A welding distributor, a stubborn programming bottleneck and one unusually useful app turned that experiment into a hardware-plus-software business for fabrication shops.