As the price of solar panels has plummeted, the amount of solar power being generated worldwide is soaring. Yet solar still accounts for less than 2 percent of the world’s total electricity capacity.

There’s plenty of power to be had from the sun, but you need to be out of the shade to receive it. [Dennis] built a robot by the name of Sun Chaser that has the smarts to go where the sun is shining.

In a corner of a Silicon Valley neighborhood of modest tract homes, robots are quietly at work generating electricity. Behind a high fence a robot glides on a monorail around 20 solar panel arrays ...

Over the past few decades, robots have emerged as heroes of society, venturing into disaster areas that are too dangerous for humans, gliding across the ocean, and even landing on Mars. It only makes ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- A Bay Area company recently launched a robot that will help build solar farms. San Francisco-based Built Robotics launched the "RPD 35," a robot based on an excavator. It can ...

The robot will aid in construction by performing the lifting, placing and attachment of solar panels. Image: AES promotional video Energy technology company AES has launched an artificially ...

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No audio available for this content. A SolarCleano F1A robot tackles a tough cleaning challenge on a solar farm in Saudi Arabia. (Photo: SolarCleano) SolarCleano, based in Garnich, Luxembourg, makes ...