Deployment
Maximo at Kern County
AES's Maximo is an AI-enabled solar-installation robot that lifts and precisely places heavy PV modules during utility-scale solar construction; programmed with AWS RoboMaker, it pairs computer vision with a manipulator to roughly double installation speed versus manual crews.
Maximo by AES Corporation · Operated by AES Corporation · Catalog entry · 1 source · not yet field-verified
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Four Maximo v3.0 solar-installation robots installed 100 MW of solar modules at the AES Bellefield project, a roughly 1 GW solar complex in Kern County, California. AES reported the robots exceeded a rate of one module per minute, described as the first at-scale robotic solar panel installation. AES Corporation owns and operates the project; Maximo is the AES-incubated robot.
Key facts
- Site
- AES Bellefield solar project (about 1 GW), Kern County, California
- Units
- Four Maximo v3.0 robots
- Scope milestone
- 100 MW of modules installed
- Rate
- Exceeded one module per minute
- Significance
- First at-scale robotic solar panel installation (per AES)
Safety record
No incidents on record for Maximo at Kern County.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
- Trust tier
- Catalog entry · 1 source · not yet field-verifiedhow tiers work →
- Last updated
- 2026-07-12
- Model
- Maximo
- Company
- AES Corporation
- Location
- United States/California/Kern County
- Operator
- AES Corporation
- Status
- operational
- First seen
- 2026-03-01
- ID
b10af3d5-d333-491f-9254-2b26f6f1a976
Timeline
- Mar 2026First recordedMaximo first documented operating at Kern County.
- Jul 2026Current status: operational, reviewedLatest recorded state. New status transitions append here as the deployment-status recorder produces them.
On the deployment map
Maximo operates in Kern County. Explore the full verified map:
Sources (1)
Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-07-12
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-07-12
Maturity + lifecycle
Lifecycle: active
Architectural position
Cohort: construction
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Maximo at Kern County.Common questions
- What is the Maximo deployment at Kern County?
- Maximo, built by AES Corporation, is recorded as a deployment at Kern County on the DEPLOY registry. AES Corporation operates the deployment directly.
- Who operates Maximo at Kern County?
- AES Corporation, the manufacturer of Maximo, operates this deployment directly. This is a maker-deploys-its-own-product arrangement rather than a customer pilot.
- When did the Maximo deployment at Kern County go live?
- The deployment is recorded as starting March 1, 2026 on the DEPLOY registry. Earlier activity may exist but is not yet sourced.
- Have there been incidents at the Maximo deployment at Kern County?
- No active incidents affecting this deployment are recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Absence of recorded incidents is not a guarantee no incident occurred; DEPLOY records only sourced incidents and suppresses retracted ones.
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