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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.
Daryl Lim
Daryl Lim is the co-founder and CEO of Augmentus, a no-code robotics company that lets factory operators program industrial robots by 3D-scanning a part instead of writing code or CAD. Founded in Singapore in 2019 and now US-headquartered near Austin, Texas, Augmentus targets surface finishing, sanding, welding and spray coating for high-mix manufacturing. A serial entrepreneur since his teens, Lim was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia in 2022 and has raised roughly $16-17M across seed and Series A rounds, including an $11M round in July 2025.
Augmentus
Augmentus is a Singapore- and Texas-based robotics software company that makes industrial robots as easy to program as a smartphone. Its no-code platform pairs industrial 3D scanning, AI-driven path planning and adaptive motion control to auto-generate robot programs for surface finishing, welding, shot peening and material removal - turning weeks of manual programming into minutes. Founded in 2019, it sells a B2B software licensing product used at 50+ production sites across aerospace, heavy industry and energy in the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific.
LE Robotics
LE Robotics is a Chengdu-founded industrial robotics company building AI-driven welding and cutting robots that combine 3D vision, SLAM autonomous navigation and welding-specific AI algorithms. Its systems locate weld seams in seconds and operate without pre-programming or manual teaching, letting robots 'think and act like workers.' Spun off from the Loyalty Enterprises industrial group in 2022 by CEO Haojie Hu, the company serves Fortune 500 manufacturers and large state-owned enterprises across nuclear, oil and gas, rail and heavy machinery, and is expanding internationally through subsidiaries in Canada, the US, Brazil and Singapore.