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Bloomberg: Robots Are Fueling the Next Wave of Solar Farm Development

To relieve a series of bottlenecks to getting steel in the ground, developers and startups are automating solar installation.
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How Nate Beckett describes Planted Solar’s robots sounds like the start of a bad joke: What happens when you marry what looks like an industrial-sized toothpick dispenser with a similarly-sized nail gun and attach it to a bulldozer?

The answer, though, is anything but comical. The startup Beckett co-founded and works at as senior vice president of engineering is building a fleet of robots it says can revolutionize how the world builds solar farms. Rather than spitting out toothpicks or hammering nails, its robots dispense steel rods that solar panels sit on with high precision at a speed no human can match. They run on artificial intelligence software that allows them to work on varied terrain, saving even more time — and money — by reducing the need to grade land. Planted is one of a growing number of startups and solar developers turning to robots to quickly get more steel in the ground.

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