AUTOkobo Event
【Upcoming Event】
2026/10/14 The 20th AUTO kobo Plenary Meeting
【FY2024-FY2026】
2026/10/14 The 20th AUTO kobo Plenary Meeting
【FY2024-FY2026】
| Date | Types of meetings | Theme | Lecturer |
| 2026/07/28 | Seminar | "Automation and Integration Framework for Heterogeneous Experimental Equipment Using ROS 2 and PLCs" |
Dr.Kensei Terashima（NIMS）  |
| 2026/06/23 | Seminar | "Self-Driving Labs for Polymer Research across Scales" |
Prof. Keith Brown, Boston University (USA)  |
| 2026/06/14 | Conference participation & Lab tour in Singapore | AI4X-Accelerate Conference |  |
| 2026/04/23 | Award | Auto kobo receives the Director's Award from the Materials and Chemistry Division of AIST |  |
| 2026/04/16 | AUTO Kobo new Faces! | Welcome new members! |  New members on both ends |
| 2026/03/27 | Plenary Meeting | The 17th AUTO kobo Plenary Meeting |  |
| 2026/03/19 | Seminar | Accelerating discovery with self-driving labs |
Visit from members of the Acceleration Consortium, University of Toronto 
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| 2026/02/19 | Training Course 2 | LabVIEW&Python | |
| 2026/01/28 | Training Course 1 | Collaborative Robot Safety Training | |
| 2026/01/20 | Plenary Meeting | The 16th AUTO kobo Plenary Meeting | |
| 2025/11/10 | Seminar | "Knowledge Graphs for Autonomous Experimentation in Material Science" |
Cogan Shimizu, Wright State University, USA  |
| 2025/10/10 | Plenary Meeting | The 15th AUTO kobo Plenary Meeting, Social gathering |  |
| 2025/09/11 | Plenary Meeting | The 14th AUTO kobo Plenary Meeting | |
| 2025/08/21 | Meeting | Closed-Loop and NIMO Utilization Kick-off Meeting | |
| 2025/07/24 | Plenary Meeting | The 13th AUTO kobo Plenary Meeting | |
| 2025/07/18 | Seminar | "New Research Style Pioneered by Digitalization: Bringing Japan's Strength to the World" | Prof. Taro Hitosugi （The University of Tokyo） |
| 2025/06/06 | Seminar | "The Aim of Experiment Automation for Realizing Bio-DX" | Dr. Takaaki Horinouchi（RIKEN） |
| 2025/05/20 | Educational Program: Elementary 1) | "Introduction to Python for Experiment Automation (Elementary 4-hour course)" | |
| 2025/04/24 | Kick-off | The 12th AUTOkobo Plenary Meeting-R7 |  |
| 2025/04/16 | Educational Program: Intermediate 1) | "Let's make use of 3DCAD in research activities! Matufacturing workishop with 3D printer - Let's learn to make jigs and experimental apparatuses by yourself!" | |
| 2025/02/27 | Educational Program: Elementary 2) | "Collaborative Robotics and Risk Assessment" |  |
| 2025/02/21 | The 3rd Research DX Forum | "Research DX Acceleration and Deployment Support for FY2023 and FY2024 Adopted Proposals" | |
| 2025/02/10 | Visitors | The Acceleration Consortium (Toronto University and The University of British Columbia, Vancouver) came to visit the AUTOkobo! | |
| 2025/01/24 | Seminar | "Construction of Robot System for Autonomous Development of Polymer Materials" | Prof. Yuki Asano and Prof. Junichiro Shiomi （The Univ. of Tokyo) |
| 2024/12/19 | Seminar | "Integration of robotics and information science for increasing the efficiency, automation, and autonomy of organic chemistry experiments " | Dr. Yuuya Nagata（NIMS） |
| 2024/10/17 | Seminar/Hands-on | "AUTOkobo Seminar, Infrastructure and Accessibility of Autonomous Experiments" and "Horizontal Development of Mutlimodal AI Technology for Various Materials and Process Development" | Dr. Ryo Tamura (NIMS), Prof. Naruki Yoshikawa (Institute of Science Tokyo) |
| 2024/10/08 | AIST Multimodal AI Symposium | "AI technology to predict physical properties of various materials and substances" | |
| 2024/06/06 | The 8th AUTOkobo Plenary Meeting | AUTOkobo kick-off MT |  |
