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DIT robotics report published
RACE has been listed as one the UK’s leading facilities in a new report from the Department of International Trade. The report looks at the robotic solutions that are being developed in the UK, for a variety of applications, including: Surgery Long term care Space Industry Agriculture Extreme environments and infrastructure Urban Within the extreme environments and ...
The July 2019 RACE newsletter is now available
The July 2019 RACE newsletter is now available. It includes updates on: CorteX – Future-Proof Interoperable Robotics Connected CAV testing ESS Update Synthetic Viewing – Inside challenging environments People at RACE RACE extension funding announced RAIN – Creating fertile ground in which great ideas can grow DEMO – The future of fusion
£3M investment puts RACE centre in pole position to lead UK robotics innovation
The UK Atomic Energy Authority will continue to be at the forefront of UK robotics after the Government announced funding for a £3 million extension to its Remote Applications in Challenging Environments (RACE) research facility at Culham Science Centre near Oxford. Since opening in 2016, the RACE facility has conducted R&D into the use of ...
RACE R&D project into laser processing for DEMO
The Service Joining System for DEMO project – which involved RACE mechanical engineers Keelan Keogh and Tristan Tremethick in addition to EUROfusion research fellow Simon Kirk – investigated how potential use of lasers for tasks such as cutting a 5mm thick walled steel pipe on the future DEMO reactor could take 30 seconds, as opposed ...
RACE project successfully demonstrated during ITER visit
A project to assess and trial remote handling maintenance on tokamak components – similar to those which will be inside ITER – has seen experts visit UKAEA to assess the work. The ITER Robotics Test Facility (IRTF) project – coordinated by Mickael Thery from RACE – saw the workhall of K3 filled with a mix ...
New Government science minister delivers his first major speech at RACE
The Government’s new science minister chose RACE as the setting for his first major speech on UK research and development policy, during a visit to Culham Science Centre on 25 January. Chris Skidmore – the new Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation – spoke for 20 minutes on the importance of science ...
RACE ‘pit lane’ project underway
Construction has started on the autonomous vehicles ‘pit lane’ facility at RACE. RACE has partnered with Millbrook Proving Ground (a leading vehicle testing centre based in Bedfordshire) to host trials of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAV) as part of the Government funded UK testbed programme. The testing of these ‘robot cars’ complements existing robot and ...
RACE TEST welcomes industry
RACE TEST is Britain’s first facility to examine the performance of remotely-operated and robotic systems against international standards. 2018 saw two British companies returning and building on the success of RACE TEST’s industry demonstration day in November in 2017. AB Precision Ltd, NIC Instruments Ltd – in addition to Ross Robotics Ltd – produce ground ...
Meridian partners line up at RACE to demonstrate the transport of the future
RACE was recently the venue for a demonstration day by the Meridian driverless vehicle programme. Meridian is a £100M Government-backed partnership described as ‘the gateway to self-driving vehicle development in the UK’. It brings together key players from industry, academia and government with the aim of developing the technology the UK will need to make ...
TARM – the key facts and figures
TARM – the key facts and figures With the first stage of RACE’s TARM (Telescopic Articulated Remote Mast) project now mechanically and electrically complete, here are some of the key facts and figures behind the project. What’s the idea behind TARM? TARM is a huge remote handling system and will play a key role in ...
