Deep inside CERN’s vast particle accelerator, engineers face a difficult task: inspecting narrow vacuum pipes that operate close to absolute zero. Human access is extremely limited, yet even tiny ...
The UK Atomic Energy Authority developed the robot with the European nuclear research centre, Cern.
A 3.7 centimetre-wide robot has been designed to travel along the 27-kilometre Large Hadron Collider to allow remote ...
Engineers from the UK Atomic Energy Authority robotics center, RACE (Remote Applications in Challenging ...
According to its developers, the “PipelNEER” is a small inspection device capable of inspecting beamline pipes in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), otherwise known as the world’s most powerful particle ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Credit: Maximilien Brice/CERN/Wikimedia Commons) The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) can now chalk up one more use, alongside ...
CERN engineers have transported two gleaming cryogenic “cold boxes” deep into the tunnels of ...