US robotics firm Luminous has secured $4.9 million in federal government funding to deploy its autonomous solar installation robots in Australia, in the first major award under the Australian Renewable Energy Agency’s (ARENA) $100 million Solar ScaleUp Challenge. The LUMI robots are designed to automate the labor intensive task of solar panel installation, speeding up large-scale…

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