Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Meet PipeINEER, the robot the size of a mouse, built to tackle one of the world's most demanding inspection challenges. UKAEA's robotics centre RACE (Remote Applications in Challenging Environments) partnered with @CERN to develop the small autonomous robot designed to travel through spaces just centimetres wide inside the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider.
PipeINEER solves problems that humans just can’t reach, demonstrating how investment in fusion energy research generates real economic and scientific value well beyond fusion itself. The robotics capabilities RACE has developed for complex environments are directly transferable to some of the most complex science and engineering challenges on the planet, driving innovation across the UK's advanced technology supply chain.
🔗 Find out more:
UK Atomic Energy Authority & RACE: ukaea.org/expertise/robotics
CERN: https://home.cern/
Footage courtesy of CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research.
About UKAEA: The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) is the UK's national fusion energy research organisation. Our mission is to lead the delivery of sustainable fusion energy and maximise the scientific and economic benefits. We accelerate fusion energy research with a range of programmes covering plasma science, robotics, materials testing and development, and tritium science – developing the energy of tomorrow we need today.
#UKAEA #CERN #FusionEnergy #UKInnovation #AdvancedTechnology
Meet PipeINEER, the robot the size of a mouse, built to tackle one of the world's most demanding inspection challenges. UKAEA's robotics centre RACE (Remote Applications in Challenging Environments) partnered with @CERN to develop the small autonomous robot designed to travel through spaces just centimetres wide inside the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider.
PipeINEER solves problems that humans just can’t reach, demonstrating how investment in fusion energy research generates real economic and scientific value well beyond fusion itself. The robotics capabilities RACE has developed for complex environments are directly transferable to some of the most complex science and engineering challenges on the planet, driving innovation across the UK's advanced technology supply chain.
🔗 Find out more:
UK Atomic Energy Authority & RACE: ukaea.org/expertise/robotics
CERN: https://home.cern/
Footage courtesy of CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research.
About UKAEA: The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) is the UK's national fusion energy research organisation. Our mission is to lead the delivery of sustainable fusion energy and maximise the scientific and economic benefits. We accelerate fusion energy research with a range of programmes covering plasma science, robotics, materials testing and development, and tritium science – developing the energy of tomorrow we need today.
#UKAEA #CERN #FusionEnergy #UKInnovation #AdvancedTechnology
