Building Origin, a dual-arm robot for useful physical work. Designed for human workstations.
Corvallis, Oregon
Joined September 2026
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Meet Origin.
Industrial robots cost six figures and need a team of engineers. Small businesses got left out.
Not anymore.
Automation for businesses of every size.
Pre-orders open next week. $9,950.
HIRO Industries retweeted
I don't think you can find a robot with a better price-to-performance.
Origin is designed to make great automation accessible for everyone and usher in an era of abundant production.
HIRO Industries retweeted
There鈥檚 something really satisfying about watching a robot go from being manually guided through a task to figuring out how to execute it autonomously.
HIRO Industries retweeted
Huge milestone here. Our app makes it super easy to train your own policies on Origin!
HIRO Industries retweeted
The groundwork has been laid. Now, it's all about scale.
This is a big milestone for us. More to come soon
Origin has gone autonomous.
Collect demonstrations. Train a policy. Put it to work in Station.
A small task, and a big milestone for HIRO Industries.
Full autonomous demo shown at real speed.
Picking is only half the job.
Origin is learning to handle the packaging, too.
2x speed - teleoperated
HIRO Industries retweeted
We're slowly giving AI eyes, hands, and a sense of where it exists in the physical world. Still feels pretty wild when you think about it.
HIRO Industries retweeted
No hardware shortcuts will be taken. If you want to build a good robot, start with good parts.
HIRO Industries retweeted
Good API is the foundation of everything else. Robotics platforms have traditionally struggled here.
What do you wanna see in the API?
Good robotics starts with good sensing.
Head and wrist RGB. Depth. Joint telemetry. Recorded motion, visualized together.
We鈥檙e building Origin for real-world work, with the tools developers and researchers need to take it further.
What would you build?
HIRO Industries retweeted
This is why I love the robotics field. Everything is new it gives anyone a chance to be great.
@hiroindustries is the most fun I've had working on a project in a long time
42 days ago, I left my job as a founding engineer at a @ycombinator robotics startup and moved back to Oregon to start my own robotics company.
Here's how we got here.
I started HIRO (Humanoid and Intelligent Robotics Organization) as a club at Oregon State because I believed advanced robotics should be accessible to everyone, not just a handful of well-funded labs.
I had preordered a robot from @kscalelabs, but when the company shut down, I reached out to its founder, @benjamin_bolte, about buying one of their prototypes. Instead, Ben talked me out of driving down to Palo Alto and encouraged me to build our own robot for the club.
That conversation stuck with me.
Earlier this year, I graduated from Oregon State and moved to San Francisco to work at Nori Robotics.
Over the summer, we went through three iterations of robots and multiple public launches. I learned a ton about what it actually takes to build and ship hardware.
On September 1st, I came back to Oregon and went all-in on @hiroindustries with my cofounder, @ethan_marreel.
In just six weeks, we've brought Origin, our first two-armed robot, to life. From designing and assembling hardware to getting it moving and sharing our first demos.
There's still an enormous amount to figure out. The hardware isn't perfect, the software is a work in progress, and Ethan's teleoperated beaver throw could use some practice.
Six weeks ago, Origin was still an idea. Today, I get to watch it move in my apartment.
HIRO Industries retweeted
42 days ago, I left my job as a founding engineer at a @ycombinator robotics startup and moved back to Oregon to start my own robotics company.
Here's how we got here.
I started HIRO (Humanoid and Intelligent Robotics Organization) as a club at Oregon State because I believed advanced robotics should be accessible to everyone, not just a handful of well-funded labs.
I had preordered a robot from @kscalelabs, but when the company shut down, I reached out to its founder, @benjamin_bolte, about buying one of their prototypes. Instead, Ben talked me out of driving down to Palo Alto and encouraged me to build our own robot for the club.
That conversation stuck with me.
Earlier this year, I graduated from Oregon State and moved to San Francisco to work at Nori Robotics.
Over the summer, we went through three iterations of robots and multiple public launches. I learned a ton about what it actually takes to build and ship hardware.
On September 1st, I came back to Oregon and went all-in on @hiroindustries with my cofounder, @ethan_marreel.
In just six weeks, we've brought Origin, our first two-armed robot, to life. From designing and assembling hardware to getting it moving and sharing our first demos.
There's still an enormous amount to figure out. The hardware isn't perfect, the software is a work in progress, and Ethan's teleoperated beaver throw could use some practice.
Six weeks ago, Origin was still an idea. Today, I get to watch it move in my apartment.