To quickly and accurately characterize prospective materials for use in solar energy, researchers built an automated system to perform laboratory experiments and used machine learning to help analyze ...

CALLAHAN COUNTY, Texas — 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 ...

Energy companies say a labor shortage is one big obstacle to installing more solar power. They’re turning to machines to speed things up. By Brad Plumer The companies racing to build large solar farms ...

The installation of almost 500,000 solar panels at Victorian solar farm will be completed this week, thanks in part to a ...

TARS, named after the robot from the 2014 film "Interstellar," could potentially be a way to travel to other stars. TARS requires no fusion reactors, no gigawatt laser — and not even a chemical rocket ...

How Nate Beckett describes Planted Solar’s robots sounds like the start of a bad joke: What happens when you marry what looks like an industrial-sized toothpick dispenser with a similarly-sized nail ...

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” ...

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 ...

China’s Sol-Bright Technology has developed a sixth-generation automated robotic cleaning system for solar panels in utility-scale PV installations. The robot features gear transmission and has a ...