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Hirebotics Hid the Robot Code - and Put a $105,000 Welder on Wheels
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.
The 10-Minute Robot Changeover: Southie Autonomy Wants the Line Lead to Run the Machines
Factories do not only need smarter robots. They need robots that can survive Tuesday afternoon - when the SKU changes, the labor roster thins, and nobody has time to call an integrator.
Teradyne
Most people never see a Teradyne machine, yet its testers stand between ambitious chip designs and the devices we trust. Now the 66-year-old Massachusetts company is applying the same factory-floor discipline to AI hardware, advanced packaging and robots that work beside people.
Cobot (Collaborative Robotics)
Cobot (legally Collaborative Robotics) is a Santa Clara-based robotics company founded in 2022 by former Amazon Robotics VP Brad Porter. The company builds practical, non-humanoid collaborative robots - led by its first product, Proxie - that work alongside humans in warehouses, hospitals, and factories. Backed by over $140M from Sequoia, General Catalyst, Khosla, Lux, and Mayo Clinic, Cobot's bet is that the future of work is human-robot teams, not humanoids.
Robust.AI
Robust.AI builds collaborative mobile robots for warehouses and factories. Its flagship Carter robot pairs an AI-driven 'cognitive engine' with a force-sensitive handlebar so workers can grab it, push it, redirect it, and let it run autonomously the rest of the time. Founded in 2019 by a who's-who of robotics and AI - Rodney Brooks (iRobot, Rethink), Gary Marcus, Anthony Jules, Henrik Christensen, and Mohamed Amer - the company has raised about $42.5M and is rolling Carter into DHL Supply Chain sites across the Americas.