Meet Godzilla, the Four Meter Robot Building the World’s Largest Fusion Reactor

Photo caption: A robot called “Godzilla” 2026-02-02 – Standing 4 metres tall, with an arm that extends up to 5 metres, Godzilla is a platform for developing and testing the tools and technologies that will be used by robots installing components inside of the completed vacuum vessel. Photo credit: ITER / © ITER Organization. Article by Mihai Andrei. ZME Science – February 17, 2026.

For decades, nuclear fusion has been the “holy grail” of energy — a promise of clean, limitless power that always seems to be “twenty years away.” Nuclear fusion is the same process that fuels the stars, where hydrogen atoms are smashed together under such intense pressure that they fuse together. This process releases a gargantuan burst of energy with zero carbon emissions and no long-lived radioactive waste. To achieve this on Earth, scientists at ITER […]

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Photo caption: Through a port cell. 2026-01-29 – Four sector modules are side by side in the tokamak pit. The latest arrival, sector module #8 (still attached to rigging, left), has not quite settled on its supports. Photo credit: ITER / © ITER Organization.