Solar X deployment in New South Wales
Deployment announced with Solar X at one of the largest solar sites in New South Wales, the next step up in scale for LUMI fleets.
Progress
From founding to fleets.
The milestones that took Luminous from a founding team in Boston to LUMI fleets on utility-scale solar power plants in the United States and Australia.
A site complete, a production line live
Lancaster Solar Farm (106 MWp) reached mechanical completion with every solar module installed, and generation 1 of our US manufacturing line came online to build LUMI fleets at scale.
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Fleet live at Goorambat East
A LUMI S4 fleet went to work on the 319 MWp Goorambat East Solar Farm, running at utility scale alongside the site crew.
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Expansion to Australia
Selected as the first recipient of ARENA's $100M Solar ScaleUp initiative. The award opened our second market, with LUMI fleets on utility-scale solar power plants in Victoria and New South Wales.
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Partnership with Nexamp
Won InnovateMass with a project alongside Nexamp, the largest community solar IPP in the US. LUMI moved from proving itself to building with a major owner of solar assets.
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Luminous Robotics founded
Founded in Boston to take the heaviest, most repetitive work out of solar construction, starting with installing heavy solar modules.
ARENA Solar ScaleUp Challenge
Inaugural recipient, scaling for a solar future.
Luminous Robotics is piloting LUMI for solar module installation at two utility-scale solar power plants in New South Wales and Victoria, Culcairn and Goorambat East. The project supports ARENA's 30-30-30 vision for ultra low cost solar.
This project is the first awardee of the Solar ScaleUp Challenge, funded by the Australian Government through the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), PRO-2509.
Project targets against manual installation
6.2%Lower levelized cost of energy (LCOE), up to
3.5xInstallation efficiency
All updates
Every step, as it happened.
2026
- Intersolar Europe recap with Stäubli, celebrating 30 years of connectors (opens in a new tab)
- Deployment announced with Solar X at one of the largest solar sites in New South Wales
- Awarded a Massachusetts Digital Twin Initiative grant (opens in a new tab)
- LUMI on display at Intersolar Europe with Stäubli, booth A4.280 (opens in a new tab)
- CEO keynote at Intersolar Europe (opens in a new tab)
- New production records across the LUMI fleet, exceeding 134% of target rates (opens in a new tab)
- Named one of nine companies in the NVIDIA and AWS frontier Physical AI Fellowship (opens in a new tab)
- Pallet LUMI launched at RE+ Northeast during the Boston Open House (opens in a new tab)
- Partnership with Raptor Maps, integrating LUMI and Sentry (opens in a new tab)
- Awarded a $1M CriticalMass project with partner Nexamp
2025
- Honored with several innovation and venture awards (opens in a new tab)
- Lancaster Solar Farm (106 MWp) mechanically complete, every solar module installed (opens in a new tab)
- Generation 1 of the US manufacturing line is live (opens in a new tab)
- LUMI consistently exceeds production targets, up to 112% (opens in a new tab)
- Year in review, Luminous scales to Australia with ARENA support (opens in a new tab)
- A fleet of LUMIs live on a 440 MW site (opens in a new tab)
- LUMI BY002 exceeds production targets at 103.5% (opens in a new tab)
- LUMI on CBS during the MassRobotics parade (opens in a new tab)
- Nominated for the NEVY Awards, Emerging Company of the Year (opens in a new tab)
- LUMI live on a 106 MW site in Victoria (opens in a new tab)
- Open House at All Energy Australia with Röhlig Logistics (opens in a new tab)
- CEO presents Luminous at the Eddies, the New England Innovation Awards (opens in a new tab)
- Nexamp pilot project completed with InnovateMass (opens in a new tab)
- CEO interviewed by Daniel Theobald at RoboBusiness 2025 (opens in a new tab)
- Luminous and ENGIE Australia featured on WIN News (opens in a new tab)
- Luminous to publicly release the ARENA solar construction dataset (opens in a new tab)
- Every solar module on block B27 installed at Goorambat East Solar Farm (opens in a new tab)
- Goorambat East Solar Farm, close-up video (opens in a new tab)
- LUMI S4 fleet live at Goorambat East Solar Farm (319 MWp) (opens in a new tab)
- LUMI S4 at the MassRobotics annual parade and Block Party (opens in a new tab)
- Röhlig Logistics partners with Luminous to ship LUMI fleets (opens in a new tab)
- Open House announced to unveil LUMI S4 to a private audience (opens in a new tab)
- Executive team at RE+ (opens in a new tab)
- LUMI S4 at our Open House (opens in a new tab)
- Selected as the first recipient of ARENA's $100M Solar ScaleUp initiative (opens in a new tab)
- Inaugural project awarded through ARENA's $100M Solar ScaleUp initiative (opens in a new tab)
- Finalist for the Eddies, formerly the New England Innovation Awards (opens in a new tab)
- LUMI S2 showcased at ClimaTech at Fenway Park (opens in a new tab)
- CEO speaks at CERAWeek by S&P Global (opens in a new tab)
- Won InnovateMass with a project alongside Nexamp, the largest community solar IPP in the US (opens in a new tab)
- Finalist in the NextEra Energy Investments Seed Competition (opens in a new tab)
- LUMI S3 fielded (opens in a new tab)
- LUMI S3 in production on a solar site in New York (opens in a new tab)
- LUMI S3 launched (opens in a new tab)
Press
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