CircuitHub

Electronics Manufacturing · Robotics · Hardware

Launch

CircuitHub's Grid factory ships US circuit boards in 4 days, beating China's 9

Nearly all electronics orders involve small, mixed batches that conventional automated lines have long failed to serve economically.

• CircuitHub publicly unveiled The Grid on October 26, 2026, a robotic PCB assembly factory in South Deerfield, Massachusetts it had quietly run and scaled for five years.
• Founded in 2012, CircuitHub lets hardware engineers order custom circuit board assemblies online, from single prototypes to production batches of thousands.
• Levitating movers carry each board between stations that print solder paste, place components, reflow, solder and inspect, all scheduled by AI agents and optimization software so every board can take its own route without changeovers.
• CircuitHub says the Grid ships orders in an average of 4 days versus a 9-day median from a Shenzhen quick-turn shop, with comparable pricing: $630 versus about $465 for a sample five-board order.
• The Massachusetts facility has shipped more than 2.2 million boards and placed over 150 million components, serving more than 26,000 engineers to date.
• CircuitHub is increasing Grid capacity fivefold in 2026 as demand outpaces production, with a second factory planned for the United Kingdom in 2027.
• About 95% of electronics projects involve fewer than 10,000 units, a high-mix, low-volume segment that most domestic reshoring and automation efforts have so far overlooked in favor of mass-scale production.
• By removing per-design changeovers, CircuitHub is betting that software-defined manufacturing can bring back the long tail of small-batch electronics production that volume-focused automation has largely ignored.