Energies Media · Jul 2026
Secondary coverage stating Charge Robotics raised $22M for commercial deployment of portable robotic factories.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 16, 2026
Overview
Charge Robotics is a MIT-founded robotics company building portable robotic factories that automate the most labor-intensive parts of utility-scale solar construction, aiming to make solar farms cheaper, faster, and safer to build.
Primary product
Portable robotic factory/system for automating utility-scale solar farm assembly and installation
Founded
2021
Headquarters
San Leandro, California, United States
Team size
11-50
Work style
Onsite
Industry
Construction
Sub-industry
Robotics / solar construction automation
Offices
Oakland, California, United States
Business model
B2B
enterprise sales
hardware + services
Funding
Stage
venture
Total raised
$17.1M
Latest round
Venture Round · Aug 2024
Latest amount
$17M
Mar 2025
Seed Round
May 2022
Pre Seed Round
Aug 2021
People & investors
Leadership
Banks Hunter
Co-founder & CEO
Max Justicz
Co-founder & CTO
Alec Page
Head of Operations & Strategy
Austin Hatfield
Head of Construction
Peter H. Dang
Founding Recruiter
Tyler Hayes
Lead R&D Engineering Technician
Work & culture
Publicly presented as mission-driven and climate-focused, with a strong engineering/building emphasis and a hiring push around on-site robotics work in the Bay Area. Evidence suggests a hands-on, manufacturing-heavy culture rather than remote work.
Work style
Onsite
Compensation
No public compensation ranges or benefits pages were found in the searched sources. Hiring appears active for engineering, manufacturing, and field roles, but salary details were not publicly surfaced.
Product & market
Pricing
Not publicly disclosed; likely project-based enterprise sale / deployment and support model.
Differentiators
- —Portable robotic factory deployed on-site
- —Automates both assembly and field installation steps
- —Targets labor bottlenecks in utility-scale solar construction
- —Prototype validated in a real-world deployment with SOLV Energy
- —MIT-founded and backed by Y Combinator and Lux Capital
Technology
KUKA
SolidWorks
Onshape
Python
AutoCAD
LinkedIn Recruiter
Microsoft Excel
Google Sheets
Microsoft PowerPoint
YouTube
RAMP
UPS
harness
prototype
Customers
SOLV Energy
utility-scale solar construction companies
solar project developers
Competitors
built-environment automation companies
solar construction contractors using manual labor
other solar automation/robotics startups
Scale & contact
Estimated monthly visits
5.8K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Latest news
EE Power · Apr 2025
Covers Charge Robotics' portable factory concept, computer-vision quality control, and its planned commercial rollout.
pv magazine USA · Mar 2025
Reports the Sunrise deployment, the SOLV Energy pilot, and Charge Robotics' push toward commercial deployments.
pv magazine USA · Mar 2025
Covers the Sunrise system, the SOLV Energy pilot, and the move from prototype to first commercial deployments.
MIT News · Mar 2025
MIT profiled Charge Robotics’ prototype deployment with SOLV Energy and noted the company had raised $22M for commercial deployments.
Jobs and careers at Charge Robotics
14 jobs at Charge Robotics
Electrical Design Engineer
On-site
Engineering
San Leandro HQ; San Leandro, California, United States
1mo ago
On-site
Full-time
R&D Technician, Manager
On-site
Engineering
San Leandro HQ
1mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Senior Robotics Software Engineer
On-site
Engineering
San Leandro HQ
3mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Lead R&D Technician
On-site
Engineering
San Leandro HQ
3mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Technical Project Manager
On-site
G&A
San Leandro HQ
3mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Head of Manufacturing
On-site
Engineering
San Leandro HQ
3mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Head of Engineering
On-site
Engineering
San Leandro HQ
6mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Solar Site Superintendent - Mechanical Foreman
On-site
Field Operations
Field
7mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Senior Electrical Engineer
On-site
Engineering
San Leandro HQ
7mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Senior Mechanical Engineer
On-site
Engineering
San Leandro HQ
9mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Robotics System Operator (Deployment Engineer)
On-site
Engineering
San Leandro HQ
9mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Senior Robotics Integration Engineer
On-site
Engineering
San Leandro HQ
10mo ago
On-site
Full-time
First Manufacturing Engineer
On-site
Engineering
San Leandro HQ
11mo ago
On-site
Full-time
R&D Engineering Technician (Electromechanical Assembly)
On-site
Engineering
San Leandro HQ
12mo ago
On-site
Full-time