The verified answer
As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies Charge Robotics: 1 model. 2 sources back the record.
CategoryConstruction robots
Overview
Charge Robotics is an American Construction robotics company founded in 2021 by MIT alumni Banks Hunter and Max Justicz, developing portable robotic factories that automatically assemble and install solar farm sections. The company is Y Combinator (S21) backed by Founders Fund, Lux Capital, and Energy Impact Partners.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Focus
Founded
Robot
Technology
Founders
Product
Investorssee investors →
Portable solar assembly factories (primary MIT News)
SOLV Energy pilot and $22M raise (primary MIT News)
Data & sources
Web sources
2
2 sources backing this record.View all →
Models (1)
View all models →Partnerships
Every company Charge Robotics has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1Energy Robotics1× joint5 total
- 2Founders Fund1× joint2 total
- 3Lux Capital1× joint2 total
Most recent
Charge Robotics on the deployment map
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Relationships
Current leadership (2)
- Banks Hunter Co-Founder & CEOsecondary-verified
- Max Justicz Co-Foundersecondary-verified
Founders (2)
- Banks Huntercofounder
- Max Justiczcofounder
Safety record
No incidents on record for Charge Robotics.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
Charge Robotics in third-party press
NIT Raipur Hosts ‘Robo Show’ to Showcase Industrial Robotics, Strengthen Industry–Academia Collaboration - PIB
Lowering the Cost of Utility Scale Solar With Robots - NextBigFuture.com
MIT graduates' startup develops revolutionary portable factories: 'We think of this as the Henry Ford moment' - The Cool Down
Peer companies
- Advanced Construction Robotics2 models
- PaintJet2 models
- Rugged Robotics2 models
- Scaled Robotics2 models
- AES Corporation1 model
- Apis Cor1 model
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- growth
- Counterparty risk class
- moderate
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Partnerships
3 total · 3 just announced
Every company Charge Robotics has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
Most-frequent partners
- 1Energy Robotics1× joint5 total
- 2Founders Fund1× joint2 total
- 3Lux Capital1× joint2 total
All 3 partnerships
open in the atlas →- technology—just announced
- technology—just announced
- technology—just announced
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 24, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (2)
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Methodology: Verified · 2 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-09-29
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-09-29
Sources by quality tier
- 2
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The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Charge Robotics.Peer companies
- Advanced Construction Robotics2 models
- PaintJet2 models
- Rugged Robotics2 models
- Scaled Robotics2 models
- AES Corporation1 model
- Apis Cor1 model
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Charge Robotics from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
NIT Raipur Hosts ‘Robo Show’ to Showcase Industrial Robotics, Strengthen Industry–Academia Collaboration - PIB
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Lowering the Cost of Utility Scale Solar With Robots - NextBigFuture.com
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MIT graduates' startup develops revolutionary portable factories: 'We think of this as the Henry Ford moment' - The Cool Down
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Boston robotics startup gets funding from Australian government - The Business Journals
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How robotics is reshaping solar module installation - pv magazine Global
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Charge Robotics Revenue 2024: $2M Est. ARR, $5.9M Valuation - GetLatka
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MIT-based startup launches solar construction robotic system - pv magazine USA
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Making solar projects cheaper and faster with portable factories - MIT News
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Robotics Start-Up Revolutionizes Solar Installation with Portable Factories - Assembly Magazine
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Startup Charge Robotics: autonomous robot technology - fully autonomous system 'Sunrise' for solar construction - Xpert.Digital - Konrad Wolfenstein
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Making solar projects cheaper and faster with portable factories
Charge Robotics, founded by MIT alumni, has created a portable factory system that automatically assembles and installs completed sections of large solar farms, reducing labor…
This solar-building robot is designed to solve one of the industry’s biggest problems - Fast Company
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Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/charge-robotics.md
- RSS feed: /companies/charge-robotics/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/e16a1d28-2c87-4026-9049-62a75807c300
- Revision history: /companies/charge-robotics/history
- Data documentation: /data
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Peer companies
- Advanced Construction Robotics2 models
- PaintJet2 models
- Rugged Robotics2 models
- Scaled Robotics2 models
- AES Corporation1 model
- Apis Cor1 model
Video
This video features our proof of concept system for the Robotic Wireless Charging concept.
YC Tech Talks: Climate Tech, July 20, 2022, 3 PM PDT https://www.ycombinator.com/events/climate-tech-talks-2022 What hard problems are climate tech founders t
A pioneering robotics engineer, Banks Hunter, inspired by the inefficiency of manual labor in solar farm construction, co-founded Charge Robotics to revolutioni
FIRST Robotics Competition Team 2722, Charge Robotics, talks about the culture and community of the team.
Heat Index
Serious56/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Charge Robotics draws attention at the 60th percentile but verifies reality at the insufficient-data level among construction robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public funding data for capital position assessment.
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 4, 2026