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"One of the solar-building robot companies operating in Australia could now,
theoretically at least, build large chunks of a solar farm from the comfort of
their port-side offices – in Boston.
Luminous Robotics is rolling out “synchronised heterogenous fleet autonomy” –
aka software that allows remote control as well as robot-to-robot communication
– in the fleet it’s running in Australia.
The Lumi device picks up solar panels and puts them on the trackers.
The company has run Australia Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) funded trials at
two now-completed solar projects and has just finished a third, with another
giant project in the wings.
They aren’t building solar farms remotely, of course, because there are rules
around this sort of thing.
“Our machines are autonomous, however, we do deploy them with safety
technicians nearby the robots (similar to early days of autonomous cars) – we
do this to adhere to the construction safety guidelines and Job Hazard Analysis
defined by each of our construction customers,” Luminous CEO Jay Wong tells
Renew Economy over email.
“We have the capability today to monitor and control these robots anywhere in
the world, (i.e. as I write this email today, I can monitor our fleet over in
NSW, AU).”"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
