--- description: Find out why Jackery Solar Mars Bot is one of the best inventions of 2023 title: Jackery Solar Mars Bot: The 200 Best Inventions of 2023 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdf271c45cd67c575/698a4194e6e84a6fd32b09fa/best-inventions-2023-jackery-solar-mars-bot.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Oct 24, 2023 # Mobile Solar Power Jackery Solar Mars Bot by [Jeff Wilser](/author/jeff-wilser/) ## Jeff Wilser Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  What if your solar panels weren’t stationary, but could move around like a robot? This is the futuristic concept behind the Jackery Solar Mars Bot, which looks like a small car and combines artificial intelligence, self-driving tech, and light sensors to zip around terrain and seek optimal sunlight. “The robot operates like a sunflower,” says David Bai, Jackery’s head of industrial design. “It can automatically track where the sunlight has the most power, and absorb the light with the most efficiency.” The bot stores that power in its 5-kilowatt hours battery (enough energy for two to three days for a cabin or apartment), making it an ideal replacement for gas-guzzling generators. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2023/6324571/jackery-solar-mars-bot/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2023/6324571/jackery-solar-mars-bot/"},"headline":"Mobile Solar Power","datePublished":"2023-10-24T11:00:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T05:11:18.722Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2023/6324571/jackery-solar-mars-bot/","keywords":["list","franchise","ecommerce","Magazine","best inventions","Best Inventions 2023"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdf271c45cd67c575/698a4194e6e84a6fd32b09fa/best-inventions-2023-jackery-solar-mars-bot.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jeff Wilser","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/jeff-wilser/"}],"creator":"Jeff Wilser","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdf271c45cd67c575/698a4194e6e84a6fd32b09fa/best-inventions-2023-jackery-solar-mars-bot.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2023/6324571/jackery-solar-mars-bot/","name":"Mobile Solar Power"}}]}] ```