{"id":14885,"date":"2026-06-18T09:04:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/2026\/tool-development-for-remote-maintenance-of-equipment-in-a-high-radiation-environment\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T09:04:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:04:53","slug":"tool-development-for-remote-maintenance-of-equipment-in-a-high-radiation-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/2026\/tool-development-for-remote-maintenance-of-equipment-in-a-high-radiation-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Tool Development for Remote Maintenance of Equipment in a High-radiation Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"project-sponsor-dept-year\"><span class=\"project-sponsor\">NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes<\/span> <span class=\"project-dept-year\">Engineering, 2025\u201326<\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"project-team\">\n<p><strong>Liaison(s):<\/strong> Dr. Michael Skulski, Dr. Brandon Jackson, Adin Goings<br \/>\n<strong>Advisor(s):<\/strong> Golsa Mirbagheri<br \/>\n<strong>Students(s):<\/strong> Daniel Kotkosky (TL-S), Jasper Cox (TL-F), Michael Mateo-Gaspar, Audrey Gruian, Samantha Riter (S), Amanda Kitrell (S), Kyra Burns (F), Carlos Ojeda de Silva (F)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"project-abstract\">NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes is a radiopharmaceutical company that uses an electron beam accelerator to produce radioisotopes for novel therapeutics used in treatment for cancer. To minimize worker\u2019s exposure to harmful radiation, the team has designed tooling to allow workers to perform maintenance tasks on the accelerator system from a remote location. The design includes a torque driver to remove and install bolts, a gripping mechanism, a pipe cutting tool, a lubrication tool and a camera, all attached to a robotic arm.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes Engineering, 2025\u201326 Liaison(s): Dr. Michael Skulski, Dr. Brandon Jackson, Adin Goings Advisor(s): Golsa Mirbagheri Students(s): Daniel Kotkosky [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[749],"class_list":["post-14885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","tag-northstar-medical-radioisotopes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14928,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14885\/revisions\/14928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}