While much of the current discussion around physical AI focuses on technologies still moving from prototype to commercial deployment, AES has already put robots to work on utility-scale solar construction sites.
The global energy company developed Maximo, an AI-powered robotic system designed to automate one of the most physically demanding stages of solar construction: lifting and installing photovoltaic modules.
Rather than operating in the predictable environment of a factory, Maximo works alongside construction crews on active sites, where terrain, weather, equipment and working conditions can change constantly. [Read more…] about Interview with Maximo’s Nick Hegeman: 180,000 robotic installations of solar panels and counting