Every day the dust settles on thousands of square kilometres of solar panels around the world, cutting the amount of electricity they produce. A robot designed by an Israeli start-up can autonomously ...

Keeping panels clear of dust in large solar farms can be a time-consuming, wasteful and costly business. A Sicilian technology startup called the Reiwa Engine has developed an autonomous robot called ...

Solar panels convert the sun's rays into clean electricity, but when their surfaces become tarnished, efficiency can plummet, resulting in the need for a good cleaning. Ecoppia, founded in 2013, has ...

Solarcleano, a Luxembourg-based solar panel cleaning systems specialist, has launched L1, a portable and semi-automatic cleaning system with 2.45 m wide brushes and support for both dry and wet ...

Italian renewables giant Enel Green Power and Sicily-based robotic tech startup Reiwa have developed a robot that automatically cleans solar panels without using water or gas. Dust and dirt can be a ...

India’s Greenleap Robotics has unveiled its new Lotus A4000 fully autonomous and waterless panel-cleaning robot. It is compatible with rooftop PV and ground-mounted solar installations. The robot uses ...

Believe it or not, solar farms are some of the sites where we will see an interesting display of top-level technology in the future, with drones and robots creating a futuristic environment. At first ...

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 ...