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Image: Luminous RoboticsLUMI
Tracked robot that picks utility-scale PV modules and places them onto tracker racking
- 4
- Deployments
- 2
- Companies that ran it
How it works on your site
LUMI is a tracked, battery-electric robot that picks utility-scale PV modules from a staged pallet or directly off a moving skid steer and "throws" them onto single-axis tracker racking. Placement is the whole of its scope: bolting, torquing, torque-marking, final alignment and rubbish removal are done by hand. Every LUMI on site comes with three people: a Luminous safety operator, a catcher who receives and aligns each module by hand, and a skid steer operator feeding modules to the robot. LUMI first deployed in 2025 and remains pre-commercial: all four confirmed deployments are grant-funded, three under Australia's ARENA programme and one under MassCEC in Massachusetts, with no commercial rate published.
Module Placement onto Racking
Field outcomes
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LUMI
Bouygues Construction Australia
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Who has run it
4 deployments · 2 companies · 2 countries
Will it work on your site
- Site preparation
- Staged pallets, skid-steer feed, charging tent, StarlinkPallets clustered near the row ends
- Connectivity
- On-site Starlink; nightly sync to cloudOperator link over a handheld controller
- Control interface
- Handheld controller with live camera feedsOperated by a dedicated on-site operator
- BIM/CAD requirements
- Not applicable
- Fleet management
- Two units at Goorambat East, three at CulcairnThe Culcairn count rests on dated filenames
As the maker states it.
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