https://tasada038.github.io/tags/laboratory-automation/Laboratory AutomationHugoBlox Kit (https://hugoblox.com)en-usMon, 08 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://tasada038.github.io/media/icon_hu_3ad6220360078ece.pnghttps://tasada038.github.io/tags/laboratory-automation/https://tasada038.github.io/projects/laboratory-automation/Mon, 08 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://tasada038.github.io/projects/laboratory-automation/<p>Research and development activities in laboratory automation, including robotic experimentation, collaborative robots, and AI-assisted materials discovery.</p> <p>Accelerating Condition Exploration for Ceramic Chemical Sintering Using Robotic Automation</p> <p>AIST Chubu Center, 2024</p> <p>Participated in a collaborative project with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) to establish an automated experimental workflow for ceramic chemical sintering processes.</p> <p>The project focused on automating powder-handling operations for high-throughput materials exploration, where large numbers of compositional experiments are required to identify promising ceramic materials. A collaborative robot system was developed to perform repetitive powder preparation tasks, reducing manual workload and significantly increasing experimental throughput.</p> <p>A key contribution was the development of robotic manipulation techniques capable of handling powder materials inside controlled environments such as gloveboxes. By integrating collaborative robots with custom mechanical mechanisms, human-like operations such as powder leveling and container handling were successfully reproduced.</p> <p>The automated experimental platform enabled rapid generation of experimental datasets, supporting AI-based prediction of material compositions and accelerating the discovery of novel ceramic compounds.</p> <p><strong>Related media coverage</strong></p> <ul> <li>&ldquo;AIST Chubu Center Establishes Robotic Method for Accelerating Condition Exploration in Ceramic Chemical Sintering Processes&rdquo; Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, July 8, 2024</li> </ul>