A collaboration pairs Fermilab with fashion students

Fashion students at the College of DuPage successfully designed gear to protect Fermilab's SPOT robot from radioactive dust. In a recent demonstration for Engineers Week in Chicago, an engineering physicist took the stage accompanied by an unusual guest: a four-legged robot wearing personal protective gear. It all started in 2019 when a team of engineers, physicists, software developers and technicians gathered at the US Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory to explore and...