The NASA Assemblers project is a recently awarded Early Career Initiative (ECI) proposal led out of NASA’s Langley Research Center, seeks to advance the technology, including hardware and software, ...

CALLAHAN COUNTY — The idea for a “solar robot” started several years ago as a sketch on a cocktail napkin in a hotel lobby. Fast forward to mid-April and Rosendin Electric Senior Vice President David ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- A Bay Area company recently launched a robot that will help build solar farms. San Francisco-based Built Robotics launched the "RPD 35," a robot based on an excavator. It can ...

At Intersolar Europe, PV-Kraftwerker will be showcasing “Momo”, the assembly robot that can build entire open area solar parks. The robot is able to mount PV modules onto support racks through a ...

The Terafab robot – aka the “construction automation platform” – installed 17 megawatts (MW) of the 225 MW White Wing Ranch project in Yuma County, Arizona, on which solar tech company Terabase Energy ...

Utility-scale solar farms often stretch across hundreds of acres. They're massive projects that rely on crews of workers to install, and later keep clean, row after row of panels. One California-based ...

The companies racing to build large solar farms across the United States are facing a growing problem: not enough workers. Now, they’re turning to robots for help. On Tuesday, AES, one of the ...

As the United States pursues a wholesale shift from a fossil fuel-based energy system to one defined by renewables, it is an all-hands-on-deck scenario to stay on track to meet climate goals. Some of ...

Terabase Energy, developer of Terafab, an automated utility-scale solar installation platform, announced it has successfully completed its first commercial installation. The company’s “field factory” ...

Long after the last human has died off, most robots continue to perform the functions for which they were built. But sometimes an illegal bohemian chip sends a robot in search of more, across the Nine ...

Italian renewables giant Enel Green Power and Sicily-based robotic tech startup Reiwa have developed a robot that automatically cleans solar panels without using water or gas. Dust and dirt can be a ...