"You don't really need to take pictures anyway - let our AI create any image you want!"

Totally not a gimmick. Totally not incredibly easy to bypass. Totally not a bunch more e-Waste in the making. /s

But someone expects to earn good money with it, so...

If you install a balcony solar system and it produces more energy than you are using at the time the energy you are putting back into the grid is counted as energy consumed and you end up being billed for it.
In what country is it legal to sell such balcony solar systems?
And what country has such odd meters that flow into the wrong direction makes it count the same as the right direction?

Sorry, that does not make any sense at all.

In general if solar panels are put on land, they are put so that agriculture is still possible. The simplest is gassing cattle. More complex is agrivoltaics, see for example: https://www.nature.com/article...
Of course there are exceptions. In the EU we had plans to reduce the amount of land used for agriculture. For some stupid reason, the EU demanded that such land that got repurposed can not secretly still be used for agriculture, so plenty of farmers put low mounted solar panels on it.
Some of them did that close to rail tracks, as there was a second pot of subsidies covering installations (of what ever) along rail tracks.
The very little win : win of that is, that usually the power gets feed directly into the rail overhead line. Note: German Railway has its own grid, with its own frequency.

Okay, then please make a list in your mind, what all has to be done to what kind of quality standard, when you install a 100MW solar plant.

Hint ... having 4 human mules carrying a $500 panel per piece around: is not the main factor of manual labour.

The robot can very well work on parking lots, and with minimal adaption on flat industrial roof tops.

Your parent is just a troll, with typical troll questions, to make him look interesting.

In my eyes he just looks dumb. He could visit the web site of the corporation producing the robot, and ask for a quote ...

I'm glad Rivian won, even though I'm unlikely to spend that kind of money on a car.

I've bought multiple cars over the past several decades. Buying cars from a dealership SUCKS. The only halfway-decent buying experience I've ever had was with CarMax.

Checking isn't the problem being solved. Sure I check what I run. Being able to check it on the webpage, then cut and paste it, then maybe check again that I cut and pasted correctly - is far less work, and FAR less error prone than having to type it in. Not to mention faster. If I validate it once, I can Ctrl-V multiple times rather than typing it all out again multiple times. Assume that I have sufficient sophistication to insert check steps where appropriate. Blocking me from using a simple memcpy() to do something rather than having to synthesize it every time is a productivity drain.

... then that project is really can't be described as open source anymore.

Screw the solar-panel-deploying robots... it sounds like what we really need are Dyson-sphere-building robots!

This doesn't seem like particularly new tech, just a tweak on what the automotive industry has been using for several dacades. I'd also be curious if that "twice as fast" calculation takes into account the time necessary for setting up the necessary rails etc. required for the Maximo robots to operate.

Don't care. If your shit shows me ads, it's not getting into my kitchen. Note to self: Don't buy appliances from Samsung anymore.

Yes, I am vocal in how much I hate ads. I believe the CEOs of advertising companies should get one hit with a stick for every time their ad bothered someone even in the slightest.

Exactly what I'm saying.

The fact that users and enterprise customers are not demanding better software from Microsoft with the same fervor their ancestors demanded that the witch be burnt speaks volumes.

And I'm specifically talking about operating systems here. Software can crash for all I care. I'm fine software quality being all over the place, the market can sort that out. But operating systems are natural monopolies and the foundation for everything else. We should not accept shoddy quality there.

Topics that do not have much to do with each other at the moment.

I mentioned nothing about random web pages. In our git repos, there are plenty of internal docs saying "to provision the embedded device, plug it in and run this 200-character commandline". Being able to paste those vs typing them saves a lot of time.