{"id":32229,"date":"2016-11-27T12:51:55","date_gmt":"2016-11-27T20:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/cern-introduces-large-hadron-colliders-robotic-inspectors"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:11:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:11:55","slug":"cern-introduces-large-hadron-colliders-robotic-inspectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/cern-introduces-large-hadron-colliders-robotic-inspectors","title":{"rendered":"CERN introduces Large Hadron Collider\u2019s robotic inspectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wxKRW1Z2lWo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Since the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/04\/23\/cern-300tb-large-hadron-collider-data\/\">Large Hadron Collider<\/a> (LHC) needs to be in tip-top shape to discover <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/08\/07\/large-hadron-collider-new-particle-finding-was-fluke\/\">new particles<\/a>, it has two inspectors making sure everything\u2019s in working order. The two of them are called TIM, short not for Timothy, but for Train Inspection Monorail. These mini autonomous monorails that keep an eye on the world\u2019s largest particle collider follow a pre-defined route and get around using tracks suspended from the ceiling. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/home.cern\/about\/updates\/2016\/11\/meet-tim-lhc-tunnels-robot\">CERN\u2019s post<\/a> introducing the machines, the tracks are remnants from the time the tunnel housed the Large Electron Positron instead of the LHC. The LEP\u2019s monorail was bigger, but not quite as high-tech: it was mainly used to transport materials and workers.<\/p>\n<p>As for what the machines can do, the answer is \u201cquite a few.\u201d They can monitor the tunnel\u2019s structure, oxygen percentage, temperature and communication bandwidth in real time. Both TIMs can also take visual and infrared images, as well as pull small wagons behind them if needed. You can watch them in action below \u2014 as you can see, they\u2019re not much to look at with their boxy silver appearance. But without them, it\u2019ll be tough monitoring a massive circular tunnel with a 17-mile circumference.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/11\/26\/cern-large-hadrone-collider-tim-robot-inspector\/\">https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/11\/26\/cern-large-hadrone-colli...inspector\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) needs to be in tip-top shape to discover new particles, it has two inspectors making sure everything\u2019s in working order. The two of them are called TIM, short not for Timothy, but for Train Inspection Monorail. These mini autonomous monorails that keep an eye on the world\u2019s largest particle [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32229"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59658,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32229\/revisions\/59658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}