RACE | Delivering Robotics & Remote Applications in Challenging Environments

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A partnership of support inspiring the future

Unique skills in robotics and remote handling make it possible to work in the most extreme environments imaginable

Delivering
Robotics

We make it possible to carry out tasks in extremely challenging environments.

The Challenge
of Nuclear

Twenty years of designing remote operations for JET.

Beyond
Nuclear

CERN and the ESS are becoming increasingly nuclear as energies increase.

Asset Integrity
Management

Assets that require management and protection.

Enabling
Growth

This is an exciting time for robotics as we start to see autonomous systems become reality.

RACE has acquired two of Boston Dynamics’ SPOT robots. We talk with Oliver Huke, the RACE Robotics Test Facilities Manager, about the new arrivals.

RACE puts SPOT
through its paces

New IRTF Animation

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RACE’s latest animation shows the 4th IA in the IRTF programme – the VVPSS prototype remote maintenance strategy. VVPSS, the Vacuum Vessel Pressure Suppression System, allows operators to open a…

National Nuclear User Facility for Hot Robotics

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The National Nuclear User Facility for Hot Robotics (NNUF-HR) is an EPSRC funded programme. It assists UK academia and industry to deliver ground-breaking, impactful research into the use of robotics…

ITER Robotics Test Facility videos available

ITER Robotics Test Facility videos available https://race.ukaea.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/IRTF-1-1024x678.jpg 1024 678 Iain Forcer Iain Forcer https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/06a0e7766b7ec04d93a42a90956fed8e?s=96&d=mm&r=g September 3, 2020 October 1, 2020

The ITER Robotics Test Facility (IRTF), hosted at RACE, is a technical collaboration between ITER Organisation and UKAEA. The first Implementation Agreement (IA) was signed off in 2017 and there…