The winning teams at the IET Impact in Society Awards, which celebrate global teams providing innovative solutions to world challenges, have been revealed.
The awards celebrate people and projects that provide solutions to societal challenges through science, technology, engineering and maths.
In the awards, the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s (UKAEA) RACE team was recognised for their teamwork in the Digital Futures category for its in-house developed robotics control system, CorteX.
The technology is the result of a collaborative effort between experts in robotics research, software engineering, UI/UX design, quality assurance, standards compliance, and technical authoring, with the aim of supporting other teams all over the globe who are facing complex interoperability challenges.
CorteX was put to the test in Sellafield’s ‘Grand Challenges’ scheme, where the RACE team successfully performed a complex, unseen task involving multiple robots and cameras...