The Kestrel platform harvests energy from live power lines and delivers it to your systems on the ground. No fuel, no generator, no signature.
Drones, sensors, radios, vehicles. Everything in the field runs on electricity, and that electricity comes from generators that burn fuel. Hundreds of kilos to transport. Fuel convoys to organize and protect. Noise, heat, and exhaust that give away your position.
Solar and wind depend on the weather. At night or in bad conditions, the power stops.
They run through almost every operating area on earth, carrying more energy than any army could ever burn. Until now, connecting to them took years of permits and millions in infrastructure.
We built a platform that turns any power line into a charging point. Think of it as an electrical outlet, available wherever a line runs.
Every watt drawn from the line is fuel that does not have to be trucked in. Fewer convoys, fewer people at risk.
A robotic vehicle parks, cuts its engine, and goes quiet. Kestrel, on the line above, keeps its sensors and comms running. No heat, no noise, no fuel.
The ground station becomes a charging point for batteries, small drones, and gear. No generator, no resupply run.
Starlink terminals, radios, and sensors stay powered day and night, in any weather.
Every watt used in the field today arrives by truck, and 1 fuel convoy in 24 ends in a casualty. That is a problem worth removing, not optimizing.
Drones, robots, sensors, comms. Every year there are more of them, and batteries are not keeping up. Energy, not compute, is becoming the bottleneck of autonomy.
The grid is the largest energy infrastructure ever built, and it already runs through almost every place a mission happens. The aircraft is just the vector. The product is silent watts, delivered from the line to the machines that need them. Generators and solar stay in the kit; we add the source that is already everywhere.
Magline draws power from a line in a controlled setup. The core physics works.
Kestrel is preparing to demonstrate energy harvesting to a ground station at JIFX 26-4, Camp Roberts, California.
Perch on a live line in the field and deliver useful power to real equipment.
Onboard battery, charged from the line. Every power line becomes a charging station, for Kestrel and for everything it powers.
Kestrel is preparing to demonstrate energy harvesting at JIFX 26-4, Camp Roberts, California, August 10 to 14, 2026. Request a briefing to follow the results.
Defense programs and integrators: we scope a pilot around your vehicles, sensors, or ground systems and deliver the data.
We are raising to take Kestrel from the lab to the field. Request the deck and the white paper.
Leads strategy, defense partnerships, and fundraising. Deployed EV charging infrastructure across Europe for networks like Carrefour and McDonald's before founding Chargebotic. Selected by Founders Inc and NVIDIA Inception.
Formerly Apple. Designed Magline, the energy harvesting system at the core of Kestrel. Leads hardware, electrical, and systems engineering, from prototype to field testing.
Silicon Valley-based global technology operator. Founder of Bridge2. Deep-tech and climate-tech ecosystem. Trilingual EN/FR/IT. Thunderbird School of Global Management.
Engineering and automotive technology leader. Former Advanced Engineering Team at Better Place. Background at Volkswagen and Silicon Valley startups. Expert in hardware systems and global technology programs.
Chargebotic Inc is a San Francisco defense energy company. It builds Kestrel, an expeditionary field power platform that perches on live power lines and harvests their energy through Magline, its contactless induction device, then delivers that power to systems on the ground. The company is backed by Founders Inc and NVIDIA Inception and is preparing a field demonstration at JIFX 26-4, Camp Roberts, California, in August 2026.
Working near energized lines is a serious risk and we treat it as one. The platform never touches the conductor: energy is drawn from the magnetic field around the wire, at a controlled standoff. A formal safety case is part of the development program.
No. There is no cutting, no splicing, and no physical contact with the conductor. The line keeps operating exactly as before.
The design target is 40 to 150 W delivered to the ground, enough to keep sensors, communications terminals, and batteries charged. Energy harvesting is validated in the lab today; field numbers come with the August 2026 demonstration.
Not yet. Today a pilot flies Kestrel onto the line. Autonomous line detection and perching are on the roadmap, and we will say it is autonomous the day it is.
Lab proof of concept, TRL 4 to 5. Next: live field demonstration at JIFX 26-4 in August 2026, then first harvest from a real power line.
Defense programs and integrators first: units that need silent, fuel free power in the field. Request a briefing and we will scope it against your platforms.
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