Comments on: New semi-autonomous vehicle helps lift solar panels in the field /2024/10/new-semi-autonomous-vehicle-helps-lift-solar-panels/ Covering the world of solar power technology, development and installation. Thu, 03 Oct 2024 05:51:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Solarman2 /2024/10/new-semi-autonomous-vehicle-helps-lift-solar-panels/#comment-147281 Thu, 03 Oct 2024 05:51:12 +0000 /?p=107554#comment-147281 Interesting, if one allows the news cycle of the amount of robotics used in say the automotive and even the solar PV manufacturing industry. High resolution robotic vision (like that used in the Boston Dynamics robots), 5 ‘axis’ movement of robotic arms and the consideration of technology already in place being used by the likes of Waymo for lower speed autonomous driving, such a technology stack could also flesh out as an autonomous robotic solar PV farm, wind farm, could be used to administer, planting, growing, managing hydroponic grow farms all with robotics and specific sensors developed for the task at hand. A project could look like two dozen humans using robotics to clear hundreds/thousands of acres of land, prepare the site and use a robotically leveraged machine fleet to quickly and precisely install hundreds of thousands of solar PV panels in just a few days, instead of a “few months”.

Again specialized robots could monitor, detect failing panels and replace them in-situ with or without human intervention. Get 10 years, 20 years down the road and have the robots replace all panels in the solar PV or wind farm turbines with the latest/greatest technologies to allow maintenance and enhancement in perpetuity. When one says “the tip of the Iceberg”, this is what they are talking about.

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