Image: Luminous RoboticsLUMILuminousTracked robot that picks utility-scale PV modules and places them onto tracker racking4 deployments · 2 countries
Image: Cosmic RoboticsCosmic-1A
Battery-electric robot that lifts solar modules and places them on tracker racking at utility-scale PV sites
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- Companies that ran it
How it works on your site
Cosmic-1A, which its maker also calls Cosmic-1, is a battery-electric, eight-wheeled autonomous vehicle that tows a trailer of solar modules along a tracker row and lifts each module onto single-axis tracker racking with a six-axis KUKA arm and a vacuum suction gripper. The crew stays on the row and changes job: the robot sets each module onto the tracker racking, and installers fasten, align and quality-check every one, a division of work that Engineering News-Record, the U.S. Department of Energy and the arm supplier all describe. Fastening without a person is stated future work. The machine is in production on utility-scale solar work in California, Texas and the East Coast with one customer, Sunstall Inc., through its SunRobi division; no source names a project, a megawatt figure or a unit count.
Module Placement onto Racking
Who has run it
1 deployment · 1 company · 1 country
Will it work on your site
- Autonomy
- Autonomous placement cycle, claimed and unverifiedInstallers fasten, align and QC alongside it
- Control interface
- Constellation, web-based planning and mission controlVendor-stated; customer and fleet login portal
- Fleet management
- One system to plan, dispatch and monitorOEM-stated rollout: begun, incomplete
- Operating weight
- About 4,536 kg (10,000 lb)Company-stated, approximate
- Navigation
- High-accuracy GPSCameras locate each module's position for the pick
- Payload
- ≥36 kg (80 lb) at full extensionKUKA's rating; KUKA also puts modules over 80 lb
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- Arm
- KUKA KR IONTEC, Foundry variantSix-axis arm; vacuum suction gripper
As the maker states it.
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