{"id":132133,"date":"2021-12-10T21:22:33","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T05:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/autonomous-robot-for-concentrated-solar-power-installation-and-maintenance"},"modified":"2021-12-10T21:22:33","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T05:22:33","slug":"autonomous-robot-for-concentrated-solar-power-installation-and-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/autonomous-robot-for-concentrated-solar-power-installation-and-maintenance","title":{"rendered":"Autonomous robot for concentrated solar power installation and maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/autonomous-robot-for-concentrated-solar-power-installation-and-maintenance2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Heliogen announced the roll-out of its robots to install and clean its CSP plants.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Heliogen, a California-based developer of concentrated solar power (CSP) plants, held the first technical demonstration of its ICARUS, or Installation &amp; Cleaning Autonomous Robot &amp; Utility Solution.<\/p>\n<p>ICARUS is a system of autonomous robots designed to clean the heliostats, which are the reflective mirrors of the CSP system. Heliostats reflect sunlight into a collection tower, where the light and heat is converted to electricity and usable thermal energy. Recently, the company partnered with Bloom Energy to produce hydrogen fuel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heliogen announced the roll-out of its robots to install and clean its CSP plants. Heliogen, a California-based developer of concentrated solar power (CSP) plants, held the first technical demonstration of its ICARUS, or Installation &amp; Cleaning Autonomous Robot &amp; Utility Solution. ICARUS is a system of autonomous robots designed to clean the heliostats, which are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}