Skilancer Solar Waterless Cleaning Robots

Skilancer Solar Private Limited was founded in 2018 in Faridabad, Haryana, India, by solar-industry engineers. The company designs and manufactures waterless robotic cleaning systems that address dust soiling losses at solar plants. Its website states seed funding from Alfa Ventures, later backing from Venture Catalysts, and incubation at IIM-Lucknow.

The product range includes the SS-01 fully automatic dry cleaning series for multi-megawatt plants, the SS-Manual series for rooftops, the SS-Sense soiling sensor and the SS-AI inspection and thermal robot with FLIR sensors. Robots are rail-guided, self-charging through on-board PV modules and LFP batteries, scheduled daily and connected to SCADA. The site cites 2,500+ robots installed and 80+ clients, including Adani, ReNew Power, Avaada and Tata Power.

• Autonomous dry cleaning: daily scheduled cycles with PBT spiral brushes and no water.
• Self-charging: on-board PV modules and LFP batteries power the robot.
• SCADA communication: robots report to the plant monitoring system.
• Ruggedised build: IP65 casing, C4-class anti-corrosion rating, operation up to 70 degrees C, climbing up to 25 degrees.
• SS-Sense soiling sensor: measures soiling to support cleaning decisions.
• SS-AI inspection robot: FLIR thermal sensors and AI cameras for fault inspection.

Daily cleaning of utility-scale ground-mounted and single-axis tracker plants in Ninh Thuan and Binh Thuan. Rooftop solar at factories and industrial parks using the manual crawler series. Floating and tracker plants where manual washing is hard to schedule.

Waterless cleaning removes the need for water at arid or water-scarce sites; the company cites over 100 million litres saved. Daily autonomous cleaning is claimed to recover up to 15 to 18 percent of generation. Rail-guided robots add no dead load to panels. Self-charging design avoids external power wiring.

Dust soiling is a major source of yield loss at solar plants in dry, high-irradiation regions, and water-scarce sites are moving from manual washing to waterless robotics. Vietnam's solar plants in the south-central region face dust and cost pressure on O&M, and the company states it serves India and international markets, without naming Vietnam.

Founded 2018 in Faridabad, Haryana, India. ISO 9001:2015 manufacturing facility. Incubated at IIM-Lucknow. Funded by Alfa Ventures and Venture Catalysts. Reports 2,500+ robots deployed across 14+ states and over 1.5 GW of capacity kept clean (company claims).