Charge Robotics

Charge Robotics builds robots that automate the most labor-intensive parts of building solar farms. Its flagship product, Sunrise, is a portable assembly line that ships to a project site, robotically snaps together solar 'bays', quality-checks them with machine vision, and uses an autonomous vehicle to place them in the field. Founded in 2021 by MIT engineers Banks Hunter and Max Justicz, the Y Combinator-backed company aims to be the 'Henry Ford moment for solar', removing the labor bottleneck that limits how fast the grid can go renewable.