Robots Now Build the Solar Farms: Gritt Exits Stealth With $32M to Automate Clean-Energy Construction
About This Episode
Gritt, a startup founded by two Carnegie Mellon roboticists, came out of stealth with roughly $32 million to deploy AI-controlled robotic arms that build utility-scale solar plants. Its systems nearly quadruple how many panels a crew can lay per day, and the company is already contracted to install 2.8 gigawatts of solar. It is a rare story where AI, robots, and energy all show up at once.
Our Take
Gritt is the show's thesis compressed into one company, AI minds directing robot bodies to build the terawatts, so the buildout of energy abundance is now automating itself, and the question shifts from whether we can make cheap power to who does the work and who captures the value.
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