A drone weighing just 4 grams is the smallest solar-powered aerial vehicle to fly yet, thanks to its unusual electrostatic motor and tiny solar panels that produce extremely high voltages.

Every day the dust settles on thousands of square kilometres of solar panels around the world, cutting the amount of electricity they produce. A robot designed by an Israeli start-up can ...

Both units are reportedly able to reach a full charge in just 70 minutes, and are able to fully charge DJI's drones in just half an hour. This, coupled with the solar panel which can be purchased ...

Drones and other reality capture ... individuals would need to “walk the field” of a solar farm to ensure efficacy, inspecting the wires behind each panel and using an ultraviolet detector ...

(“BladeRanger”), a developer of a powerful cleaning payload for drones that is designed for inspection and washing of solar panels and tall buildings. The multi-phase agreement is valued at ...

The Ramat Gan-based company’s high-tech drones, originally designed for inspecting and cleaning solar panels, are tackling a problem that has long plagued Deutsche Bahn’s German Railway ...

Drone-mounted imaging of solar farm performance at the rate of one panel per second reduces the cost of current ground-based sampling methods by up to 20 times. A new strategic Australia-Singapore ...

Solar panels shouldn’t be left dirty. Pollen, rainwater, dirt, bird waste, foliage, debris, and pollutants like wildfire smoke can build up over time and may reduce nearly half the energy yield ...

Mingjing Qi and his colleagues developed a simple circuit that scales up the voltage produced by solar panels significantly and this was integrated into a tiny drone prototype. Drones are becoming ...