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RACE visit to China a chance to talk robotics with students
Rob gave a series of lectures on the significance of robotics in challenging environments with a talk entitled RACE to ZERO: towards Zero Manual Intervention. It formed 2017’s IET Prestige Lecture and stems from Rob’s involvement as a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). The lecture series was held across nine different ...
DRIVEN consortium visits Downing Street
On Wednesday 15 November, the DRIVEN consortium, of which RACE is a member, was given the chance to showcase its ground-breaking autonomous vehicle technology at 10 Downing Street. DRIVEN project director Graeme Smith and Professor Paul Newman, Director of the Oxford Robotics Institute, drove one of the specially modified cars to Downing Street and showed ...
New funding rains down on RACE
UKAEA’s RACE facility is a major partner in a consortium that has been awarded £11.9m of Government funding to undertake world-leading research into robotic and autonomous technologies for the nuclear industry. The Robotics and Artificial Intelligence for Nuclear (RAIN) project is led by the University of Manchester with RACE joining the Universities of Oxford, Liverpool, ...
RACE among winners in UK Government driverless car testing competition
RACE has won a share of a £51 million Government investment to upgrade the UK’s autonomous vehicle testing infrastructure. Four projects across the country have been awarded funding under the new MERIDIAN driverless vehicle programme. The projects will test the speed and safety of the vehicles and give British firms the facilities to compete globally ...
RACE is a key part of Oxfordshire’s global lead in science and innovation
The conclusion of a new Science and Innovation Audit (SIA) is that Oxfordshire is playing a world leading role in developing four transformative technologies – Digital Health, Space Led Applications, Quantum Computing and Autonomous Vehicles. UKAEA (through the RACE robotics facility) is supporting industry (notably Oxbotica) in the rapid development of driverless cars, using the ...
Expansion for RACE driverless car test facilities
RACE has announced plans to extend its facilities for autonomous vehicle tests. UKAEA has been awarded a £2m grant from Oxfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership to extend the RACE facilities. The grant will be used for the development of a ‘pit lane’ complex consisting of four flexible workspace units along with improved control and communications capabilities. ...
DRIVEN consortium reveals first self-driving vehicles
The DRIVEN consortium – of which RACE is a member – today unveiled the first three of its proposed fleet of six self-driving vehicles. DRIVEN is an ambitious and exciting £8.9 million project that will see a fleet of Level 4 autonomous vehicles being deployed in urban areas and on motorways, culminating in multiple end-to-end ...
RACE DRIVEN to support driverless cars
RACE – UKAEA’s state of the art robotics technology centre at Culham Science Centre – is to consolidate its position as a test site for driverless cars as a number of major investments in this area were announced today. These projects will play a key role in putting the first driverless cars on public roads ...
£100M investment in testing facilities for connected and autonomous vehicles
To launch the UK Government’s Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV) £100 million investment in world class test facilities for autonomous vehicles, a promotional video has just been released (link – https://youtu.be/QxYoyXzVCOg) Much of the video was filmed at RACE, which will play a key role in developing this transformative technology – not least ...
UKAEA announces collaboration with ITER Organization in remote handling
The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and the ITER Organization (IO) have entered into a technical collaboration which will see the UKAEA’s centre for Remote Applications in Challenging Environments, RACE, host the ITER Robotics Test Facility (IRTF) for a period of at least five years from January 2017. The UK Government is investing €5 million ...
