Image: Luminous RoboticsLUMILuminousTracked robot that picks utility-scale PV modules and places them onto tracker racking4 deployments · 2 countries
Image: GrittGritt
Retrofit for construction equipment that picks solar modules and places them on tracker racking
- 3
- Deployments
- 1
- Companies that ran it
How it works on your site
Gritt is a retrofit kit, about 1,000 lb of robotic arm, vacuum gripper, forks, on-board generator and sensor mast, that bolts onto a contractor's own 10,000 lb class skid steer or tracked carrier. It picks utility-scale PV modules from a manufacturer's crate staged beside the row and sets them onto single-axis tracker torque tubes; the torque-controlled bolting that governs module warranty stays with the crew. Gritt first deployed in 2025 and is pre-commercial: it took the grand prize in the US Department of Energy's American-Made Solar Prize Round 7 in September 2024, and one customer is named on the record, Burns & McDonnell, whose own release says the two companies collaborated to evaluate and have tested the technology at multiple utility-scale solar sites.
Module Placement onto Racking
Image: Gritt
Who has run it
3 deployments · 1 company · 1 country
Will it work on your site
- Connectivity
- Network link for over-the-air weight updatesInference runs locally on every robot
- Ingress protection
- IP67A design target, not an achieved rating
- Minimum operating temperature
- -29 °C (-20 °F)Vendor design target; 49 °C (120 °F) at the top
- Fleet management
- Implied by a staffed role, not a productA Technical Autonomous Fleet Manager owns fleet uptime
As the maker states it.
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