Charge Robotics, a company which automates solar power construction, has created a system that automatically assembles and installs completed sections of large solar energy farms.
The company is developing the process to speed up an otherwise labour-intensive manual task, with its factories shipped directly to the site of utility solar projects, where equipment like tracks, mounting brackets, and panels are fed into the system and automatically assembled.
A robotic vehicle then autonomously moves the finished project in its final destination.
In 2024, solar energy accounted for 81% of new electric capacity.
The company has since raised US$22m for its first commercial deployments later this year.
Banks Hunter, CEO of Charge Robotics, said: “We’re going from a very bespoke, hands on, manual installation process to something much more streamlined and set up for mass manufacturing.
“We can build much bigger sites much faster with the same number of people by just shipping out more of our factories. It’s a fundamentally new way of scaling solar energy.”
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