An internationally main robotics initiative that permits academia and trade to seek out revolutionary options to actual world challenges, celebrated its success with a Hot Robotics Symposium hosted throughout three UK areas final week.
The National Nuclear User Facility (NNUF) for Hot Robotics is a authorities funded initiative that helps innovation within the nuclear sector by making world-leading testing services, sensors and robotic gear simply accessible to academia and trade.
Ground-breaking, impactful analysis in robotics and synthetic intelligence will profit the UK’s improvement of fusion vitality as secure, low carbon and sustainable vitality supply along with adjoining sectors corresponding to nuclear decommissioning, house, and cell purposes.
Visitors to UKAEA’s RACE (UK Atomic Energy Authority / Remote Applications in Challenging Environments) in Oxfordshire, the University of Bristol facility in Fenswood Farm (North Somerset), and the National Nuclear Laboratory in Cumbria, had been handled to a number of robots in motion, excursions and a packed speaker programme.
A mixture of robotic manipulators, floor, aerial and underwater automobiles together with deployment robots, plant mock-ups, and supporting infrastructure, had been all showcased to reveal the breadth of the scheme.
Nick Sykes, Head of Operations at UKAEA’s RACE, mentioned: “The Hot Robotics Symposium has provided a fantastic opportunity for academia and industry to learn more about research that takes place at each facility and to see some of the amazing equipment available. The valuable role that robots play in going where humans can’t, has already been proven at powerplants throughout the world and will be key in making fusion energy an environmentally responsible part of the world’s energy supply.”
These services help academia and trade in creating and sustaining UK expertise to help work in excessive and difficult environments.
Darren Potter, Capability Leader for Plant Intervention on the National Nuclear Laboratory, mentioned: “This was a great opportunity to showcase NNL’s facility at our Workington Laboratory, which holds industrial scale robotics, and accurate replicas of facilities on active plant. As the UK’s national laboratory for nuclear fission, this facility gives access to our unique set of capabilities, enabling ground-breaking nuclear research and development, with an offsite de-risked opportunity for academia and the supply chain to demonstrate new technology, giving users everything they need to explore brand new technologies and solutions.”
An extra good thing about Hot Robotics is to assist help the event of scientists and engineers.
Chris Grovenor, Chair of the NNUF Management Group, mentioned: “It was a pleasure to see the progress being made with the NNUF Hot Robotics programme, and I encourage the nuclear academic community to make full use of the funding available to access these world-class facilities.”
To discover out extra concerning the NNUF Hot Robotics services and gear, go to: www.hotrobotics.co.uk
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NNUF Hot Robotics
is an EPSRC funded facility to help UK academia and trade to ship ground-breaking, impactful analysis in robotics and synthetic intelligence for software in excessive and difficult nuclear environments.
NNUF Hot Robotics
is an EPSRC funded facility to help UK academia and trade to ship ground-breaking, impactful analysis in robotics and synthetic intelligence for software in excessive and difficult nuclear environments.