Out in the California sun, a new kind of farmhand is hard at work. Powered by solar energy and guided by artificial intelligence, the solar-powered weeding robot for cotton fields is offering farmers ...

AES has deployed the world's first fleet of AI-enabled solar robots to the second phase of the Bellefield project in Kern County, California.

The EPC contractor and Quanta subsidiary plans to use dozens of the autonomous excavators to install piles for solar array ...

The world’s hunger for energy is growing at an unprecedented rate thanks to growing manufacturing and AI data centers. And our current electric generation capabilities just can’t cope with the demand.

Believe it or not, solar farms are some of the sites where we will see an interesting display of top-level technology in the future, with drones and robots creating a futuristic environment. At first ...

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 ...

Workers observe as solar robots by Rosendin install photovoltaic solar modules on Thursday, April 17, 2025, at the Sequoia Solar Facility in Cisco. Shafkat Anowar / Staff Photographer CALLAHAN COUNTY ...

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 ...

Keeping panels clear of dust in large solar farms can be a time-consuming, wasteful and costly business. A Sicilian technology startup called the Reiwa Engine has developed an autonomous robot called ...

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 ...