An Orange County company is using an autonomous robotic system to install solar panels. The company says the technology isn’t taking away jobs, and instead, is filling gaps in a labor shortage.
Generally, a solar farm is built on about 10 acres of unshaded land in direct sunlight, and construction takes about a year. Finding a willing workforce is no easy task, given the difficulties of the job.
Rosendin Electric in Orange County, however, is using an autonomous robotic system to install solar panels at a solar farm. They say the technology is not taking away jobs, but rather, it’s filling gaps in a labor shortage when it comes to hard labor in harsh weather…