UK trial shows space robots could build solar farms in orbit – Robots could automate vast construction projects in space

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Remote-controlled [robots](https://thenextweb.com/topic/robot) could one day build giant solar farms in space, according to a recent trial in the UK.

British [startup](https://thenextweb.com/topic/startups) Space Solar conducted the test at the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s (UKAEA) facilities on the University of Oxford’s Culham Campus, which hosts several fusion research initiatives.

The company used two remotely operated robotic arms to assemble a section of the support structure for its future solar power satellite. The device aims to beam the Sun’s energy from [space](https://thenextweb.com/topic/space) to Earth. 

According to Space Solar, the trial proved that robotics can assemble gigawatt-scale solar power satellites.