Product profile
Beacon Platform
Cloud-based no-code automation platform for teaching, running and monitoring Hirebotics welding, cutting and painting cobots.
Facts
- Company
- Hirebotics
- Product type
- software_platform
- Status
- commercial
- Primary capability
- Control welding, cutting and painting cobots without robot programming.
- Website
- https://www.hirebotics.com/solutions/beacon-platform/
About Beacon Platform
Beacon is Hirebotics’ cloud-based control and operations platform for welding, plasma-cutting and painting cobots. Fabricators can teach paths, set process parameters, save jobs and monitor production without writing robot code.
The software runs across iOS, Android, the PSX pendant and web browsers. Basic and Pro tiers provide live monitoring, file backup, user roles, job history, charts, data exports and support for managing work across connected cobot systems.
Market context
verified exact official high-quality product visual, cobot_automation_platform, Cobot Automation Platform, existing_category_first, https://www.hirebotics.com/wp-content/uploads/Cobot-Welder-App-with-welding-cobot-1.jpg, 2026-08-20, https://www.hirebotics.com/solutions/beacon-platform/, official_first_party_product_photo, 2026-08-19, developer_platform, 2026-08-19, exact_official_product_visual, Cobot Automation Platform, developer_platform, resolved_to_canonical_category, cobot_automation_platform, developer_platform
Summary
Type: Cobot Automation Platform
Core: Beacon cloud software
Function: Control welding, cutting and painting cobots without robot programming.
Audience: Fabrication and manufacturing teams
Specifications
- client_platforms
- iOS; Android; PSX teach pendant; web browsers
- plan_history
- Basic: 7 days; Pro: 30 days
- programming_method
- Smart Puck tap-to-teach; no robot code
- supported_processes
- Welding; plasma cutting; powder coating; liquid painting
Operations
- Environment
- fabrication_shop, manufacturing_floor
- Primary user
- fabricators, welders, production_teams
- Role
- robot_programming, production_monitoring, workflow_management
- Interaction model
- smart_puck_teaching, mobile_app, tablet, web_browser
- Mobility class
- software_only
- Product detail
- verified exact official high-quality product visual, cobot_automation_platform, Cobot Automation Platform, existing_category_first, https://www.hirebotics.com/wp-content/uploads/Cobot-Welder-App-with-welding-cobot-1.jpg, 2026-08-20, https://www.hirebotics.com/solutions/beacon-platform/, official_first_party_product_photo, 2026-08-19, developer_platform, 2026-08-19, exact_official_product_visual, Cobot Automation Platform, developer_platform, resolved_to_canonical_category, cobot_automation_pl...
Research, Articles and recent verified events
- Hirebotics appoints co-founder Matthew Bush as CEO — 2026-02-20
- Hirebotics launches Cobot Welder powered by Beacon — 2021-04-21