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RAICo 1st Suppliers’ Event
The Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Collaboration (RAICo®) is a collaboration among the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), Sellafield Ltd (SL), UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and University of Manchester. RAICo is an end user-led collaboration that brings together teams from fission decommissioning and fusion engineering. The programme is focussed on developing robotics and artificial intelligence technologies that are required for the ...
RACE’s CorteX software wins prestigious Engineering Award
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has named RACE’s in-house developed robotic interoperability software, CorteX, as the winner of the Digital Futures category in its Impact in Society Awards. The IET awards celebrate teams of people from around the world who are doing critical work that responds to the challenges that society face across ...
UKAEA and Korea Institute of Fusion Energy sign MOU for remote handling for future fusion powerplants
UKAEA and the Korea Institute of Fusion Energy (KFE) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to partner in research and development for remote handling and the maintenance of future powerplants. The agreement supports an alliance between the UK and South Korean government-funded organisations, with UKAEA and KFE specialising in the quest to make fusion ...
Preconference Workshop – Control, Estimation and Modelling Practice for Robotic Applications in Challenging Environments
RACE and University of Manchester are organising an international workshop focusing on Control, Estimation and Modelling Practice for Robotic Applications in Challenging Environments at the European Control Conference 2022 (ECC22). This hybrid workshop will run for a full day on 12th July 2022 at Imperial College, London, the UK. The workshop welcomes attendees, including researchers ...
New robotics hub shows way for challenge solving
The RAICo1 facility in Whitehaven will be the first in a series of robotics and artificial intelligence collaboration hubs across the UK. This national scale was highlighted this week when the facility linked up with colleagues hundreds of miles away in Bristol to stage a “virtual handover”. RAICo1 is not yet fully finished, but it ...
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
RACE recently held a workshop at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), which focussed on the challenges of creating Standardised Software Frameworks for robotics in nuclear environments. As robots are increasingly being considered as solutions to address challenges in multiple industries, new techniques and technologies are becoming available with application in challenging ...
RACE lends a hand to Sellafield robotic dog trials
UKAEA’s robotics team RACE was at Sellafield recently to advise and support on how canine-like robots could help the clean-up of Western Europe’s largest nuclear site. Sellafield Ltd held a three-day trial of Spot, the agile mobile robot developed by Boston Dynamics, at the Calder Hall nuclear power station, which is now being decommissioned. The ...
Spot goes for a walk
Robotics experts from RACE were invited to demonstrate the robotic quadruped ‘Spot’ at the Goodwood Festival of Speed ‘Future Lab’ event earlier this month. A team from RACE took two of the agile, robotic canines to the four-day Goodwood event in West Sussex in order to demonstrate how mobile robots can be used in different ...
RAICo Labs in West Cumbria event – 13th May
RAICo Labs in West Cumbria – Smart people using smart machine Virtual event – Thursday 13th May 2021 The proposed Robotics and AI Collaboration Laboratory in Cumbria will enable end users and the supply chain, including academia, to work collaboratively towards developing and delivering the next generation of robotics services, using nuclear decommissioning as a ...
RACE engineer oversees start of the ESS pit lid installation in Sweden
One of RACE’s graduates – James Lawton-Smith – had the chance to travel to Sweden to oversee the installation of the pit lids on the European Spallation Source (ESS) project. The ESS will be the world’s most powerful neutron source once complete. The UK is one of 17 European countries involved and construction is expected ...
