The tremendous advances in deep learning are also improving the working capabilities of robots and autonomous machines. As industrial applications grow at factories to homes, a variety of research challenges have arisen. Since its inception in 2019, the Automation Research Team (ART) has been promoting the development of intelligent technologies to enhance machine autonomy and cooperation through research on how robots can learn efficiently, how to augment experiences that are difficult to obtain in reality, and how to interact in human-robot cooperation. In addition, at the Cyber-Physical Systems Research Building in Odaiba, we are promoting social deployment of research results through industry-government-academia collaboration activities. We are committed to research activities aimed at creating a society that is easy to work in for a diverse range of people and that can sustainably improve productivity, even in an aging society.