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The RAIN Hub actively engages end-users from the start of projects. This support allows us to tackle industry led challenges and ultimately leads to the deployment of our robotic solutions into active, industrial facilities. The RAIN Hub is also demonstrating and disseminating the outputs from our work at local and national events. It is important to work with other robotics hubs and industries to ensure the technology we develop can be applied where it is needed. "In a relatively short period of time, the RAIN Hub has enabled AWE to accelerate our use of RAS demonstrators as a means to encourage the use and enable the transition of these technologies into our diverse business. The hub has also helped to bring us closer to the wider UK RAS community." Mr David Chambers, Director of Science, Engineering and Technology, AWE CASE STUDY: TARM The Telescopic Articulated Remote Mast (TARM) is a huge remote handling maintenance system designed to perform ex-vessel maintenance on the JET fusion research reactor. It is a vertical telescopic mast with a horizontal boom and range of up to 11m, and a safe working load of 42 tonnes. TARM has recently been refitted and refurbished with a highly sensitive control system, including fibre optics. It can now be used to research and test large scale remote handling and remote maintenance equipment. Researchers in the RAIN Hub have a unique level of access to this facility. 19