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AI-Driven Robot Installs Nearly 10,000 Solar Modules in Australia
Sunday May 4, 2025. 12:43 AM , from Slashdot
![]() Or, as Clean Technica puts it, 'Meet the robot replacing four workers at a time on solar projects.' This is part of a broader industrial trend. In the United States, Rosendin Electric demonstrated its own semi-autonomous system in Texas that allowed a two-person team to install 350 to 400 modules per day, a clear step-change from traditional methods. AES Corporation has been developing a robot called Maximo that combines placement and fastening with computer vision. Trina Solar's Trinabot in China operates in a similar space, with prototype systems demonstrating 50-plus modules per hour... In an industry where time-to-energy is critical, shaving weeks off the construction schedule directly reduces costs and increases net revenue... [T]he direction is clear. The future of solar construction will be faster, safer, and more precise — not because of human brawn, but because of robotic repetition. There will still be humans on-site, but their role shifts from lifting panels to managing throughput. Just as cranes and excavators changed civil construction, so too will robots like Leapting's define the next era of solar deployment. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/05/03/198214/ai-driven-robot-installs-nearly-10000-solar-modu...
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