<story><title>Solar</title><url>https://patrickcollison.com/solar</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>justicz</author><text>Hope it&amp;#x27;s cool for me to plug this here -- I&amp;#x27;m one of the cofounders of a YC-backed startup working on robots that build large-scale solar farms!&lt;p&gt;We basically stick a bunch of industrial robot arms in a shipping container and use them to build solar fields out in the middle of the desert. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;chargerobotics.com&amp;#x2F;&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;chargerobotics.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; (we have an open software engineer role for the factory, email in my profile if you want to chat! team is currently 7 people)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simonw</author><text>Since you work professionally with robot arms...&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve always thought that it would be cool to run a robot arm museum, showcasing industrial robot arms from different periods - 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, etc. As far as I can tell the first one was Unimate in 1961: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Unimate&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Unimate&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;But... I don&amp;#x27;t have a feel for how many of these things actually exist out there. Do collections already exist? What happens to a robot arm once it becomes obsolete?</text></comment>
<story><title>Solar</title><url>https://patrickcollison.com/solar</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>justicz</author><text>Hope it&amp;#x27;s cool for me to plug this here -- I&amp;#x27;m one of the cofounders of a YC-backed startup working on robots that build large-scale solar farms!&lt;p&gt;We basically stick a bunch of industrial robot arms in a shipping container and use them to build solar fields out in the middle of the desert. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;chargerobotics.com&amp;#x2F;&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;chargerobotics.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; (we have an open software engineer role for the factory, email in my profile if you want to chat! team is currently 7 people)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philipkglass</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know if this message is better suited for you or dang, but the capitalization of your hiring posts here has always been a little off:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Charge Robotics (YC S21) is hiring meches to build robots that build solar farms&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Mechanical engineers would be better shortened to MechEs instead of meches, IMO.</text></comment>