Earlier this year, Ice Nine were pleased to aid the team at the University of Nottingham with the deployment of their disposable snake robot at the NRS Dounreay site!! Check out the article from this deployment on the Gov website here: https://lnkd.in/eUwJhutU Many thanks to all those involved, including chief designer Jung-Che Chang and his supervisor Xin D. from the University of Nottingham, Stuart Brown from FIS360 Ltd and Jason Simpson, Mark Crichton, Scotty Shearer and Don Sutherland from NRS Dounreay. #robotics #robots #innovation #nuclear #confined #innovation #robot #inspection #decommissioning
Ice Nine - Mobile robotic solutions
Engineering Services
Warrington, England 711 followers
Mobile robotic solutions for hazardous environments increasing safety for | Inspection | Monitoring | Characterisation |
About us
Ice Nine design mobile robotic platforms for inspection, characterisation and surveying of hazardous environments. With extensive experience in nuclear decommissioning, we have also worked with Oil & Gas and Utilities. We increase the safety and efficiency of inspection tasks by removing humans from harm in radioactive buildings or confined spaces, whilst saving costs and improving the reliability and accuracy of survey data. This aids long-term asset management. We have extensive experience deploying robotic platforms on active sites and offer autonomous and tele-operated, submersible, ground-based and aerial systems, which can be adapted to a huge range of challenges. Please get in touch if you have any difficult problems requiring an innovative robotic solution!
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https://ice9robotics.co.uk/
External link for Ice Nine - Mobile robotic solutions
- Industry
- Engineering Services
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- Warrington, England
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2018
- Specialties
- ROVs, Hardware, Software, Control systems, Project management, Electronics, Robotics, Inspection, Robots, Confined Spaces, Characterisation, Digital Twins, Robotics Consultancy, Engineering, UAV, Drones, and Nuclear Decommissioning
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414 The Quadrant, Risley
Warrington, England WA3 6FW, GB
Employees at Ice Nine - Mobile robotic solutions
Updates
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Thrilled to bits to be involved in these projects! A really interesting challenge, with an end use-case sitting there waiting for the culmination of our work with Design Driven Solutions Ltd. #19mm #microcamera #imaging #innovation #nuclear
Two groundbreaking projects awarded Game Changers proof of concept funding to advance technology for asset inspection through 19mm ports at Sellafield Ltd. The ‘Camdroid’ project from Ice Nine - Mobile robotic solutions and Design Driven Solutions Ltd. combines the strengths of prototypes demonstrated during feasibility stage and utilises a unique combination of high-powered LEDs and modern sensors, complete with custom articulated movement, to inspect previously inaccessible areas. The second project, ‘Periscopic’, also spearheaded by Ice Nine - Mobile robotic solutions, introduces a novel design for asset inspection by leveraging centuries-old periscope technology in an innovative package. With an inspection of the entire duct system at Sellafield scheduled for 2025, the Game Changers team are working hard with the challenge owners and solution providers to develop these technologies and improve on current practices in time for the deadline. Find out more about this challenge: https://bit.ly/3Avp50y If you have a technology you believe could be applied to the nuclear industry, please send us the details via a General Application: https://bit.ly/451YxPQ #gamechangers #challenge #nuclearindustry #decommissioning #innovation #technology #assetinspection #ductmonitoring #remotesinpection #visualinspection Helen Bayram, Matthew Nancekievill, Bartosz Dworzanski
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📢📢📢 Check-out our video from our demonstration of our Micro UAV technology!! 📢📢📢 Back in June, Matthew, Liam and Zhengyi demonstrated the outputs from our FIS360 Ltd Game Changers proof of concept UAV project, hosted by challenge owners Sellafield Ltd in the Centre of Excellence. There were key stakeholders in attendance, both from Sellafield and further afield, with a lot of interesting discussions generated and incredibly valuable feedback 📋 This marked the culmination of an 11-month project, awarded after a successful feasibility study, where we developed a UAV and associated components, capable of successful deployment and retrieval through 140mm diameter access ports. This body of work has been funded to enable visual inspections of hazardous environments in nuclear decommissioning environments, and will hopefully lead to deployment of the technology, improving the safety and efficiency of inspection tasks across the industry. A big shout out to the Sellafield UAV team, led by Amanda, and the guidance received from Adrian, Peter, Luke and others A thank you as well to the FIS360 team managing this project, led by Rob, Frank (and not forgetting Karim before his change in role!) #UAV #Drone #Robotics #Innovation #Nuclear #Robots #Demonstration #Decommissioning
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Great to see the CRADLE Robotics and AI partnership between The University of Manchester and Jacobs promoted in this quarter's Industry Link magazine by the Nuclear Industry Association, with a little sprinkling of some of the robotic platforms that we're involved in! For more information on CRADLE, check out their website: https://lnkd.in/gNwYmKky #robotics #robots #CRADLE #collaboration #CARMA #Lyra #Innovation
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On the 13th June, Matthew Nancekievill, Liam Brown and Zhengyi Jiang travelled to the Sellafield Ltd Centre of Excellence on the Leconfield Industrial estate to demonstrate the result of our PoC project over the past year developing a micro-UAV capable of deployment and retrieval through less than 150mm diameter bores. Lots of interesting questions, discussions and feedback from a whole host of stakeholders from the Sellafield site and beyond. We'll be promoting a full video in the near future with more details so keep an eye out for that! A big thank you to Amanda Smith and the rest of the UAV team, as well as FIS360 Ltd with Rob Cruickshank #uav #robotics #innovation #demonstration #nuclear #GameChanger
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Check out this talk by Xin D. from the University of Nottingham and Jason Simpson/Simon Dickson from NRS Dounreay talking about their Game Changers project, which we helped to support through the deployment of their technology on-site earlier this year! The talk gives an overview on the background and need for the project, showcasing the challenges faced by robotic platforms on hazardous nuclear sites, as well as how technology can help overcome these barriers. Well done to all! FIS360 Ltd #robotics #nuclear #robots #inspection #nuclear #decommissioning #innovation #GameChanger https://lnkd.in/gm3zk3iT
Game Changers lunchtime Technology Talks June 2024
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📢 We are pleased to announce that in collaboration with Design Driven Solutions Ltd. we have been awarded PoC funding through the Game Changers scheme run by FIS360 Ltd to further develop our miniaturised camera for inspection of Sellafield Ltd assets!!! 📋 Our system will include a high resolution image sensor, bespoke lighting, position localisation and be capable of being passed up to 1m through a 19mm bore. Yes, 19mm!! 🤖 This is an exciting project with the potential to deploy in an active environment on completion of the PoC, offering a step-change in inspection capabilities when compared to previously used borescopes. #GameChanger #inspection #nuclear #robotics #innovation #camera #robot #decommissioning #Sellafield
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Matthew presented at the Nuclear Industry Association Inter business group event today on the journey Ice Nine has taken from concept to realisation, highlighting the key milestones from academia to commercialisation. A fantastic event, and some really interesting discussions regarding how the general population view nuclear, how the election might affect strategy and how everyone in the nuclear industry can be champions of what we view as an important part of the UK's energy security and sustainability goals! Thank you Dalton Nuclear Institute and everyone else involved in the organisation of this event. #nuclear #robotics #innovation #energy #academia #carma #NIA
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This project really showcased the ability of academia to develop solutions for real-world challenges in a never thought of before way. We were happy to lend a small hand in helping with the deployment on site of this fantastic technology 👷♂️. This will be well worth a listen to see what Game Changers and the University of Nottingham have and could achieve!
Want to know more about how the Game Changers innovation programme brings together challenge owners and solution providers in the nuclear industry? The development of the University of Nottingham’s disposable modular snake manipulator and its recent deployment onsite at NRS Dounreay is a great example of the collaborative relationships we facilitate. Reserve your spot for June’s Game Changers lunchtime Tech Talk and hear challenge owner Jason Simpson, Dounreay, and Dr Xin D. ‘Erwin’ Dong, University of Nottingham, discussing the revolutionary prototype snake technology, the innovation process and the already-promising results. 📅 Date and time: Thursday 20th June 2024, 12pm Register now to find out more about this exciting project and how the Game Changers programme is helping to solve challenges that can’t be met with off-the-shelf solutions: https://bit.ly/3RdvvqU #gamechangers #innovation #technology #nuclearindustry Sellafield Ltd, Mark Crichton, Hengtai Dai
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Come and say hello to CEO Matthew Nancekievill and robotics expert Zhengyi Jiang at our stand near the registration desk for the HRAICE event hosted by RAICo and FIS360 Ltd at Energus! It's going to be a fantastic day with lots of incredibly interesting presentations and a whole host of innovative technology on show. We've got a CARMA, 2 x versions of the Lyra and a mini drone with us for the day, but that just scratches the surface of what we do. Any questions please walk over or send us a message!! #robotics #HRAICE #GameChangers #robots #innovation #nuclear
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