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FTC Solar Hosts Inaugural Robotics Day to Showcase the Future of Solar Construction
AUSTIN, Texas, July 08, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FTC Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FTCI), a leading provider of solar tracker systems, software, and engineering services, hosted its inaugural Robo Day at the company’s ASTAAR training facility in Seguin, Texas, bringing together robotics companies, EPCs, developers, and technology partners to explore how automation can support the next phase of utility-scale solar construction. The event featured live demonstrations from leading robotic and autonomous sol
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AUSTIN, Texas, July 08, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FTC Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FTCI), a leading provider of solar tracker systems, software, and engineering services, hosted its inaugural Robo Day at the company's ASTAAR training facility in Seguin, Texas, bringing together robotics companies, EPCs, developers, and technology partners to explore how automation can support the next phase of utility-scale solar construction. The event featured live demonstrations from leading robotic and autonomous solutions providers, including Aonics, BotCrew, Civ Robotics, Cosmic Robotics, Libra Robotics, Ozzies, Inc., and RoboForce. Together, the participating companies showcased their solutions across multiple phases of PV construction, including pile marking, cable pulling, material staging, and module mounting. FTC Solar hosted the event to highlight a growing reality in the solar industry: as projects become larger, more complex, and more schedule-driven, construction teams need better tools to build safely, efficiently, and predictably. "A lot of our projects are in remote areas, difficult places to build, sometimes an hour or two just to get to the site," said Rob Turner, Vice President - Construction at MasTec. "With limited labor, we have to keep looking for ways to create a safe environment where everyone goes home at the end of the day, while also building quality and productivity into the job." FTC Solar's Robo Day brought together attendees from more than 20 EPC and developer organizations, creating a field-based environment where participants could see emerging construction technologies in action. Demonstrations showed how autonomous solutions can assist with repetitive, physically demanding, or precision-based tasks while allowing crews to focus on supervision, quality, coordination, and decision-making. "People remain at the core of everything we do," said Anthony Carroll, President and CEO of FTC Solar. "Robotics is not about replacing the skilled teams who build solar projects. It is about giving them better tools, helping them work more safely, and enabling them to build more efficiently. The future of solar construction will be shaped by people and technology working together." Robo Day also reinforced the importance of tracker design in enabling future construction workflows. FTC Solar's 1P Pioneer® tracker platform is designed around constructability, with an easy-to-install architecture, flexible installation sequencing, and low training requirements. These features are intended to support today's field crews while also creating a more repeatable foundation for automation-enabled installation.