robotics Archives

COD fashion students design PPE for Fermilab’s Boston Dynamics SPOT robot

From Yahoo News, Jan. 20, 2023: A small group of Fashion Studies students and COD Fashion Studies Professor Eva Stevens, are working in collaboration with Fermilab engineers to design Personal Protective Equipment for Spot who works in radioactive and contaminated areas.

College of DuPage fashion design students meet SPOT the Fermilab robot

From the College of DuPage, Jan. 4, 2023: Who says robots can’t be fashionable? This video tells the story of why SPOT the Fermilab robot needed a little fashion in his life. Thanks to the College of DuPage Fashion Studies students, SPOT now has designer protective gear.

Argonaut project launches design effort for super-cold robotics

A person wearing a hardhat stands inside a bright yellow honeycomb-like box that appears to be two or three times their height.

Fermilab scientists are developing one of the most cold-tolerant robots ever made so they can monitor the interiors of particle detectors. The project has already garnered some interest from engineers at other research institutions, including NASA.

Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument starts 5-year survey

A tessellated image of a white cap with a blue dot on the right edge, with shadow surrounding. This image is tessellated many times. A single cap, center right, is different: It has a white dot with a white concentric circle around it on top. No blue.

DESI will capture and study the light from tens of millions of galaxies and other distant objects to better understand our universe and the properties of dark energy. The formal start of DESI’s five-year survey follows a four-month trial run of its custom instrumentation that captured 4-million spectra of galaxies — more than the combined output of all previous spectroscopic surveys. Fermilab has contributed multiple components to the international collaboration led by Berkeley Lab.