Italian renewables giant Enel Green Power and Sicily-based robotic tech startup Reiwa have developed a robot that automatically cleans solar panels without using water or gas. Dust and dirt can be a ...

Over the past few decades, robots have emerged as heroes of society, venturing into disaster areas that are too dangerous for humans, gliding across the ocean, and even landing on Mars. It only makes ...

There’s plenty of power to be had from the sun, but you need to be out of the shade to receive it. [Dennis] built a robot by the name of Sun Chaser that has the smarts to go where the sun is shining.

As the price of solar panels has plummeted, the amount of solar power being generated worldwide is soaring. Yet solar still accounts for less than 2 percent of the world’s total electricity capacity.

In a corner of a Silicon Valley neighborhood of modest tract homes, robots are quietly at work generating electricity. Behind a high fence a robot glides on a monorail around 20 solar panel arrays ...