Deep inside CERN’s vast particle accelerator, engineers face a difficult task: inspecting narrow vacuum pipes that operate ...

UK scientists and the UK Atomic Energy Authority have developed a mouse-sized robot to inspect the Large Hadron Collider on the Swiss-French border.

Bots hunt deformed RF contacts inside the collider's 27 km vacuum tubes The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and CERN have jointly developed a "mouse-sized robot" to inspect parts of the Large ...

Engineers from the UK Atomic Energy Authority robotics center, RACE (Remote Applications in Challenging ...

A 3.7 centimetre-wide robot has been designed to travel along the 27-kilometre Large Hadron Collider to allow remote ...

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The LHC will enter a four-year “intensive work period” to “transform the LHC into the [High-Luminosity] LHC,” according to ...

A mouse-shaped robot designed for inspecting the collider infrastructure at CERN has been developed by a team of engineers from the U.K. Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) robotics center, RACE (Remote ...

The UK Atomic Energy Authority developed the robot with the European nuclear research centre, Cern.

Since inaugural operations began in 2008, the LHC has allowed researchers to probe some of the universe’s most profound and mysterious forces. But investigating the deepest questions of modern physics ...

CERN engineers have transported two gleaming cryogenic “cold boxes” deep into the tunnels of ...

The Large Hadron Collider is the most advanced and complex machine ever built by humanity, and it's allowed us to study the inner workings of the universe in unprecedented ways. However, there's only ...