justicz

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by justicz 4y ago
Hey, thanks! We haven't had too much trouble with regulatory barriers. There are some other companies operating in the robotic construction space (e.g. Built Robotics) that have served as good examples for us on the regulatory front. A
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by justicz 4y ago
We don't have a ton of info available publicly yet, our Launch HN thread [0] and jobs board [1] are the best places to learn more for now (or email me!). [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30780455 [1] https:&#x
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by justicz 4y ago
Robots that build large-scale solar farms! My friend and I started working on this last year and ended up starting a company. We moved to the bay area and did YC last summer. We've been spending a lot of time on solar construction site
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Charge Robotics (YC S21) is hiring meches to build robots that build solar farms(ycombinator.com)
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by justicz 4y ago
Charge Robotics | Mechanical Engineer | Full-time | Onsite | SF Bay Area Hi HN! We’re a YC-backed startup building robots that build large-scale solar farms. It turns out that construction companies literally can't build solar fast eno
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Charge Robotics (YC S21) is hiring meches to build robots that build solar farms(ycombinator.com)
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Charge Robotics (YC S21) is hiring meches to build robots that build solar farms(ycombinator.com)
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by justicz 4y ago
(Also, we just moved into a new office, and it's great!)
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by justicz 4y ago
Charge Robotics | Mechanical Engineer | Full-time | Onsite | SF Bay Area Hi HN! We’re a YC-backed startup building robots that build large-scale solar farms. It turns out that construction companies literally can't build solar fast eno
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Charge Robotics (YC S21) is hiring meches to build robots that build solar farms(ycombinator.com)
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Charge Robotics (YC S21) is hiring a mechanical engineer(ycombinator.com)
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by justicz 4y ago
Charge Robotics | Mechanical Engineer | Full-time | Onsite | SF Bay Area Hi HN! We’re a YC-backed startup building robots that build large-scale solar farms. It turns out that construction companies literally can't build solar fast eno
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by justicz 4y ago
Charge Robotics | Senior Mechanical Engineer | Full-time | Onsite | SF Bay Area Hi HN! We’re a YC-backed startup building robots that build large-scale solar farms. It turns out that construction companies literally can't build solar f
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Legends Solar – Buy operating solar panels on commercial solar farms(legends.solar)
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by justicz 4y ago
Charge Robotics | Senior Mechanical Engineer | Full-time | Onsite | SF Bay Area Hi HN! We’re a YC-backed startup building robots that build large-scale solar farms. It turns out that construction companies literally can't build solar f
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by justicz 5y ago
Charge Robotics | Robotics Software Engineer | Full-time | Onsite | SF Bay Area Hi HN! We’re a YC-backed startup building robots that build large-scale solar farms. It turns out that construction companies literally can't build solar f
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by justicz 5y ago
Thanks Joe!
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by justicz 5y ago
> Great to see fellow robotics starters on HN! Yes! We are excited every time we see a robotics company show up on HN :) > How are you connecting the solar modules, electrically? Right now we are focused on nailing mechanical installa
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by justicz 5y ago
Single-axis tracked solar isn't going anywhere anytime soon, but we are going to have to adapt if and when the industry changes. We're building relatively generic robotic primitives that should be useful for many different types o
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by justicz 5y ago
Your intuition is right that storage is important for renewables -- fortunately grid scale batteries exist and are increasingly popular! At the end of 2020, 34% of solar projects under development were being co-located with battery storage
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by justicz 5y ago
Thanks for putting this together! This is basically what we would've written. There are many aspects of solar construction that make it a much more robot-friendly environment to operate in than that of a generic construction site (deta
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by justicz 5y ago
It's a good question. When you look at why utility-scale solar construction isn't happening fast enough, you quickly find that there are fundamental scaling problems associated with getting hundreds of people to very remote constr
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by justicz 5y ago
This definitely comes up. Some communities are more receptive to solar than others, and it is important that the local community buys into a project before it gets built. We've definitely passed by signs in the lawns of local residents
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by justicz 5y ago
Teleoperation is on our radar, especially for getting robots un-stuck when they are confused about a particular situation. Our vision is that a single remote operator can monitor an entire fleet of robots, stepping in to resolve confusing s
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by justicz 5y ago
We have a video with some drone shots of pallet unloading/staging here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9MLKmfmR30
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:) Fortunately there are way fewer biters.
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Launch HN: Charge Robotics (YC S21) - Robots that build solar farms
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by justicz 5y ago
Charge Robotics | Robotics Software Engineer | Full-time | Onsite | SF Bay Area Hi HN! We’re a brand new startup building robots that build large-scale solar farms. It turns out that construction companies literally can't build solar f
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by justicz 5y ago
Amazing job to everyone working at Cruise who is making this happen... absolutely incredible!
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by justicz 5y ago
Charge Robotics | Robotics Software Engineer | Full-time | Onsite | SF Bay Area Hi HN! We’re a brand new startup building robots that build large-scale solar farms. It turns out that construction companies literally can't build solar f

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