With the continuous warming of the solar photovoltaic power generation industry, the robot industry has brought tremendous opportunities for development and a bright future. In order to increase productivity, and flexibility as well as reduce costs, major solar manufacturers have chosen robot manufacturing technology.

       Nowadays, the use of flexible automated robot technology has been used throughout the manufacturing process of the solar photovoltaic industry. From the initial polysilicon ingots, to the rapid processing of wafers, and the assembly of the final panels and battery modules, flexible automated robotics is everywhere in the entire process. For many start-up solar manufacturers, robot suppliers can not only provide them with excellent production equipment, but also bring in rich production experience and knowledge.

       At present, some large-scale solar energy manufacturing enterprises in China use robot manufacturing technology in the three major production steps of wafer growth, wafer fabrication and module packaging.

In the solar wafer manufacturing process, a series of chemical treatments are required on the wafer. The key to the success of the chemical process is whether it can achieve flexible transfer of wafers between several devices. This process can't be completed without the assistance of a high-speed robot. For a production company with a production capacity of millions of wafers per week, if we use manual operations instead of robots in production, it is impossible to achieve the existing production capacity, and guarantee the continuity of production. If the manual processing method is used in wafer production, the production situation will be unimaginable. Very thin solar wafers are extremely fragile. If it is handled manually, the damage rate will be quite high. This problem can be solved very well by using flexible robot technology. At present, the flexible robot technology in the robot production process uses Bernoulli clamp technology. The Bernoulli clamp technology is based on the Bernoulli effect, which uses a high-speed airflow to suspend the wafer over the clamp to create a non-contact wafer processing mode.

        In the solar cell manufacturing process, various photovoltaic companies have selected a large number of robots of various structures, among which the structure is compact, the speed is fast, three axes are widely used, and they can process hundreds of wafers per minute. Moreover, with the help of visual technology, the system realizes not only visual guidance, but also real-time monitoring of product quality, and can easily detect the quality problems such as cracks and gaps at any time.

       In the assembly process of the panel, large-scale photovoltaic enterprises also use a large number of industrial robots, and the robots used in the assembly process of the panels are mostly large heavy-duty robots. The reason why the heavy-duty robot is selected in the assembly process of the panel is because the battery board itself usually weighs 30-35 pounds, the actual production is affected by the end effect, and the weight is greatly increased. Therefore, in the assembly process of the panel Heavy-duty robots must be used. Due to the complicated process of assembling the production line of the panel, there are usually a number of robots working together, such as some robots for packaging and fixing the panels; some for the assembly of glass and panels and different purposes, using different types of robots.

        In the panel assembly process, the flexibility of the robot technology is utilized to achieve timely fine-tuning of the production process. For example,when the head of the robot needs to be modified, the robot program can be easily adjusted to adapt to the change of the edge gasket of the solar cell module.

       Robotic flexible manufacturing technology is particularly important for the development of emerging industries such as solar energy. Many technologies and products seem to be perfect in the testing and development stages, but once they are actually transferred to the mass production manufacturing stage, problems and defects will be exposed. At this time, robot manufacturers and experienced robot integrators have become the most powerful helpers in the enterprise.

       With the development of society, robots have gradually penetrated into all aspects of industrial production, whether they are used to replace old production models or for the production and use of emerging product lines. Although some production tasks can also choose not to use robots, there are many production tasks that can only be done by robots, especially for production tasks that require high speed and flexibility.