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AI-driven robot installs nearly 10k solar modules in Australia
- WalterGR 1y agohttps://cleantechnica.com/2025/04/25/meet-the-robot-replacing-four-workers-at-a-time-on-solar-projects/ https://cleantechnica.com/2025/04/25/meet-the-robot-replacin... has much more information about the robot.
- Ancapistani 1y agoThis feels like a very promising use of “embodied AI”. I’m imagining a future where we have robots that are somewhat humanoid. They’re not necessarily bipedal, but they at least have arms that function similarly to ours and some means of locomotion. They’ll watch humans work, and function via mimicry. After seeing a human install a couple of panels they will have collected enough data to have a high degree of confidence in what’s being accomplished. They’ll be intelligent enough to determine intent - not just mechanical motion - and even intelligent enough to proactively ask how and why if something is ambiguous. Come to think of it, this should already be possible as a virtual assistant, but I’ve not seen anyone building it.
- lowmagnet 1y agoThis is a pick and place robot following a pre-determined path and the only AI onboard is more like CV to place the panel. How are those panels kept fed in the hopper? is just one of many questions not answered here.
- lowmagnet 1y ago> At a dusty solar site outside Culcairn, New South Wales, a tracked robot methodically rolled between rows of steel posts, hoisting large photovoltaic panels with a vacuum arm and placing them onto pre-aligned mounting structures.
- cjoelrun 1y agoThis is it. The robots can power themselves now. When shall we black out the sun then?
- blacksmith_tb 1y agoIt's a giant pick and place on wheels[1]! 1: https://youtu.be/tBPqo49QOEc https://youtu.be/tBPqo49QOEc
- M95D 1y agoWas AI really needed?
- 0cf8612b2e1e 1y agoTo maximize funding and publicity, yes.