Transforming Solar Construction Through Robotics with Deise Yumi Asami

Transforming Solar Construction Through Robotics with Deise Yumi Asami

July 17, 2026 · 1h 1m

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Deise Yumi Asami discusses how her startup Maximo is revolutionizing solar panel installation through robotics and AI.

On the show this week, Deise Yumi Asami shares how her AI-enabled robotics startup, Maximo, is transforming solar panel installation and making solar panel installation faster, safer, and more efficient. In this conversation, you’ll hear how robotics, AI vision, and smart field deployment are helping reshape the future of renewable energy infrastructure. Deise also shares the experience of starting a new company from the ground up while being incubated within a larger parent company. Learn how innovation is encouraged and celebrated inside a large organization, and how AES organizes its innovation group. Learn more: https://maxrobotics.ai/ – SPONSORS – This episode is brought to you by Tiger Data Every growing Postgres database eventually hits a wall. Queries slow down, dashboards lag, and teams consider adding a second database. Tiger Data, creators of TimescaleDB, extends Postgres with time-series primitives, columnar storage, and automatic partitioning so your queries stay fast on live data. No pipelines, no migration, no second system. Just Postgres, built for the workload you actually have. Try it free at…

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