Aerial view of Culham Science Centre in Oxfordshire

facility · Culham Campus, Oxfordshire

RACE: Remote Applications in Challenging Environments

UKAEA's centre for remote handling and robotics in environments people cannot safely enter.

Culham Science Centre, Oxfordshire, the UKAEA site that hosts RACE. UK Atomic Energy Authority · Open Government Licence v1.0

Where it sits

What happens here

UKAEA's centre for remote handling and robotics in environments people cannot safely enter. Built around fusion maintenance, its work extends into nuclear decommissioning, space and other hazardous settings, with large-scale robotic manipulation and digital twin capability on site.

What it can do

  • Remote handling and teleoperated maintenance
  • Robotics for radioactive and hazardous environments
  • Large-scale manipulator test cells
  • Digital twin and virtual engineering for remote operations

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Evidence

  • UKAEA RACE · checked 2026-08-25
  • Every capability line above is taken from the operator’s own published pages. Access is recorded separately, and left empty where UKIZ cannot show a real route.

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UK Atomic Energy Authority · UK Atomic Energy Authority · Open Government Licence v1.0
Source page · checked 2026-08-14 · taken 2019-03-01

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Registry record

Record type
research centre
Verification
verified
Last verified
2026-08-18
Primary source
national-laboratories
Website
ukaea.uk
Location
Culham, Oxfordshire

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