It's a good question. When you look at why utility-scale solar construction isn't happening fast enough, you quickly find that there are fundamental scaling problems associated with getting hundreds of people to very remote construction sites every day for the duration of a project -- and these problems get worse as the sites get larger and more remote. While our robots will reduce the number of people required to build a given MW of solar capacity, increasing the labor supply will dramatically grow the number of solar installations happening overall each year, and with it create a lot of skilled construction jobs.

> My understanding is that solar installation is the next (semi?) skilled labor that could potentially be careers for many people.

This is partially true -- a lot of the more specialized solar jobs show up in the residential solar market, which is growing quite quickly (residential solar grew 30% in 2021 over 2020). The training period for the tasks we're performing on large-scale sites is a couple of days.

Weirdly one of the reasons for rapid growth of solar in India was the widely available cheap semi skilled labor. The stringent regulations in US and elsewhere seems to make this a much bigger challenge i guess.

I would imagine this works best for large scale projects that are on nice flat land?

So plenty of room for humans to handle smaller/trickier projects. And of course to look after the machines that are doing the work.

Turning a blind eye to climate friendly tech for fear of losing (potential) future jobs doesn't seem wise, and it's irrelevant anyway in our capitalist society where someone else will just follow the money and step straight into your place.