The first thing you see upon entering the offices of PhysicsX is an 800cc two stroke motorbike powered by a snowmobile engine. Next there is the Kellison EXP001, the Batmobile-style racer that sprang from the mind of Jim Kellison in 1957 and which has recently been restored. Further inside the offices the walls are crammed with textbooks and patent plaques.
“This is about heart,” Robin Tuluie says about the Kellison before gesturing to the book-lined office. “In there it is cerebral.”
Tuluie is one of the great maverick engineers – some would say visionaries – of his time. He started out as an astrophysicist, before swapping planets for pitlanes and taking a variety of jobs spearheading new innovations with F1 teams and helping secure a world championship for Renault in 2005. He has also been applying his scientific mind to MotoGP. Along the way he has raced his own bikes to US national championship wins and created the one-off snowmobile-engined Tularis 800 that takes pride of place at his new offices in Bicester Heritage, Oxfordshire.
Today PhysicsX has broadened its areas of research to encompass aerospace, medical devices, electric vehicles, renewable energies and motor sport. It describes itself, a little mind-bendingly, as “a deep-tech company of scientists and engineers, developing machine learning applications to massively accelerate physics
