Regional listening sessions
Operators, vendors, and labor in energy-heavy regions — Gulf Coast, Appalachia, the Southwest solar belt, the Great Lakes manufacturing corridor.
Sector deep-dive
Robotics for Energy.
Where robots and autonomy are already at work across the energy system — from boiler walls and live transmission lines to solar fields, turbine blades, geothermal rigs, mines, data centers, and orbit. Curated, with a primary source on every entry.
Deployed robots working in the field today · Announced contracted or piloted, not yet operational · Potential early R&D or concept
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Application areas11across the energy value chain
Companies & projects—real, sourced entries
Robots deployed—working in the field today
In the tracker—also profiled in Companies
= also profiled in the Companies dataset. Every card is cited; primary sources preferred. As of 2026-06-16.
Candidates to track
Energy-robotics companies featured above that aren't yet in the Companies dataset — a running shortlist of what to add next.
Project Prime Mover
Draft — for discussionIf Washington wanted to act on everything this page documents, step one is asking the right questions. This is a draft of that instrument — an unofficial concept for a national inquiry the Department of Energy could issue, with every question carrying an ID that's stable within its draft, so responses can be split, clustered, and synthesized straight into a report and roadmap.
Draft concept · Not an official DOE document
Project Prime Mover: National Inquiry on Robotics and Physical AI for the Energy and Manufacturing Base
The Department seeks input from industry, academia, labor, and the investment community to inform potential Departmental actions on robotics and physical AI across the energy and manufacturing sectors — where robots are already in service at power plants and substations and autonomy is moving up the stack into building solar farms, repairing turbine blades, drilling wells, mining critical minerals, and running materials-discovery labs. Responses will inform a public report and a technology-and-deployment roadmap covering applications, deployment barriers, workforce, supply chains, and research-and-development priorities. This inquiry would not commit the Department to any action and is not a funding solicitation.
Who should respond
- Energy asset owners & operators
- Robotics & autonomy developers
- Manufacturers & EPC firms
- Labor organizations
- Universities & national laboratories
- Investors
- Standards bodies
- State energy offices
Built to be processed. Answer only the questions where you have direct knowledge, and label every answer with the draft you answered and its question ID — e.g., Full · B2 — suggested limit 500 words per question, data as attachments. IDs are scoped to a draft: only one of these would ever be issued, and the same letter-number is reused across drafts for materially different questions, so the draft name is what keeps a tagged answer unambiguous. Each category feeds a named chapter of the planned roadmap (a few drafts route two related categories into one chapter), so tagged responses can be sorted, clustered by category, and synthesized without manual triage.
Questions
Engagement interest — a checkbox block on the response form, not an essay question
- Regional listening sessions
- Technical workshops with universities / national labs
- Hosting site visits or demonstrations
- Contributing to shared testbeds
- Joining an energy-robotics consortium
- Piloting pooled-data governance
Engagement tracks
Beyond written responses, the inquiry proposes three tracks so the roadmap is built on observed evidence, not just filings:
Technical workshops
Co-hosted with universities and national laboratories on the hardest questions — shared testbeds (B5), R&D gaps (E1), and pooled training data (F1).
Site visits & demonstrations
At operating facilities — plants, solar builds, mines, labs — turning respondent claims into first-hand evidence for the roadmap.
Unofficial draft authored for this tracker as a policy concept — not a Department of Energy document and not affiliated with DOE. Drafted 2026-07-16 from the deployments and gaps documented on this page.
Sourcing note: entries are confirmed against company case studies or reputable trade/press coverage as of June 2026. Deployment status (deployed / announced / potential) is an editorial read and evolves — follow each source for the current picture. Spotted a company we're missing? It probably belongs in the Companies tracker too.