{"id":176262,"date":"2023-11-18T18:22:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T00:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/watch-this-robot-install-solar-panels-in-arizona-video"},"modified":"2023-11-18T18:22:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T00:22:31","slug":"watch-this-robot-install-solar-panels-in-arizona-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/watch-this-robot-install-solar-panels-in-arizona-video","title":{"rendered":"Watch this robot install solar panels in Arizona [video]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/watch-this-robot-install-solar-panels-in-arizona-video2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Terabase Energy has successfully completed its first commercial solar installation using Terafab, its automatic solar-installing robot.<\/p>\n<p>The Terafab robot \u2013 aka the \u201cconstruction automation platform\u201d \u2013 installed 17 megawatts (MW) of the 225 MW White Wing Ranch project in Yuma County, Arizona, on which solar tech company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terabase.energy\/\">Terabase Energy<\/a> is working alongside developer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leewardenergy.com\/\">Leeward Renewable Energy<\/a> (LRE) and contractor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.res-group.com\/\">RES<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Terafab robot completely eliminates the manual lifting of heavy steel tubes and solar panels \u2013 an industry first. Terabase Energy says that its robot achieved labor productivity improvements of 25% compared with manual installation, and the setup improves working conditions for solar technicians, as they\u2019re housed in shaded and cooled conditions. The robot\u2019s precision also enables the 100% return of solar panel packaging for reuse by the manufacturer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terabase Energy has successfully completed its first commercial solar installation using Terafab, its automatic solar-installing robot. The Terafab robot \u2013 aka the \u201cconstruction automation platform\u201d \u2013 installed 17 megawatts (MW) of the 225 MW White Wing Ranch project in Yuma County, Arizona, on which solar tech company Terabase Energy is working alongside developer Leeward Renewable [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176262","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\/176262","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}