Image: Luminous RoboticsLUMILuminousTracked robot that picks utility-scale PV modules and places them onto tracker racking4 deployments · 2 countries
Image: Charge RoboticsSunrise
Portable on-site factory that assembles 40-foot solar bays for an autonomous vehicle to place
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How it works on your site
Sunrise is a portable robotic assembly factory that Charge Robotics ships to a utility-scale ground-mount solar site, working with a separate autonomous vehicle that carries each finished bay out into the field. Steel tracks, brackets, fasteners and modules are fed into the line and assembled into 40-foot solar bays under machine-vision inspection, then driven to position and fastened, while steel pile driving and ground-post anchoring stay manual and a crew of operators, drivers and technicians stays on site with it. Charge Robotics says the system installs approximately 1 megawatt of solar capacity per day, and co-founder and CEO Banks Hunter says it keeps pace with a traditional crew of about 80 people, both from one April 2024 interview that gives no baseline, no conditions and no scope for that notional crew; Sunrise is pre-commercial, the one deployment on record is a February 2024 pilot with SOLV Energy at an unnamed desert site, and no source measures the system's output at any named site.
Module Fastening and Torque Verification, Module Placement onto Racking
Image: Charge Robotics
Who has run it
1 deployment · 1 company
Will it work on your site
- Site Preparation
- Piles and ground posts driven before arrivalManual work by a separate crew
- Control Interface
- Operator runs the factory and the delivery fleetCommand-line familiarity listed in the vendor role
- Fleet Management
- Implied only, no named productFrom the vendor phrase "fleet of delivery vehicles"
- Solar Bay Length
- 40 ft (12.1 m)Unit of output, not a machine rating
- Solar Bay Weight
- 800 lb (363 kg)Per finished bay, vendor-stated
- Material Refill Interval
- Refill every 15 m of field segmentSingle uncorroborated source
As the maker states it.
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