UK testing facilities
RACE Robotics Workhall and National Nuclear User Facility for Hot Robotics
UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA)
Culham Science Centre, Oxfordshire, England
Access: Conditional
Testing capabilities
- Inspection and failure analysis
- Functional and integrated-system testing
- Environmental testing—unspecified
Services
Development, build and evaluation of remote-handling robotic systems for fusion, nuclear decommissioning and other extreme industrial environments; robotic inspection, maintenance, repair, waste-management, haptics, VR, remote-operations and mobile-robot trials.
Equipment
RACE Workhall 2,000 m² multifunctional hangar with two 20-tonne gantry cranes, reconfigurable robotic cells, multi-function control rooms and NIST test lanes for unmanned-vehicle mobility, dexterity, load-bearing and reliability; UKAEA page reports possible maintenance conditions up to 3 kGy/h, 500 K, vacuum pressure and 5 m ports as application context rather than a guaranteed test limit.
Standards
No accreditation or test standards stated on the cited operator page.
Contact
Email: contactus@race.ukaea.uk; Phone: +44 1235 468001
Approximate location
Culham · Town location