Mr. Yuya Tahara (Arai)(4th year student, Humanics) has published a co-first-author peer-reviewed Perspective article in *Digital Discovery* proposing the concept of Self-maintainability (SeM) for full laboratory automation.
Mr. Yuya Tahara (Arai)(4th year student, Humanics) has published a co-first-author peer-reviewed Perspective article in *Digital Discovery* proposing the concept of Self-maintainability (SeM) for full laboratory automation.
Title : Automating care by self-maintainability for full laboratory automation
Authors : Koji Ochiai, Yuya Tahara-Arai, Akari Kato, Kazunari Kaizu, Hirokazu Kariyazaki, Makoto Umeno, Koichi Takahashi, Genki N. Kanda, Haruka Ozaki
Co-first authors： Koji Ochiai and Yuya Tahara-Arai
Publisher：Royal Society of Chemistry
Article type： Perspective Publication information: Digital Discovery, 2025, 4, 2285–2297 DOI: 10.1039/D5DD00151J
[Message from Mr. Yuya Tahara (Arai)]
In this study, we focused not only on automating experimental operations, but also on “care” around experiments, such as preparation, resource management, scheduling, and error handling.
To make laboratory automation truly useful and sustainable, robots need to do more than follow predefined instructions; the entire laboratory system should recognise its own state and maintain itself.
The Humanics programme offers an opportunity to work on large questions across life science, robotics, informatics, and AI.
I hope future students will identify overlooked problems at the boundaries of disciplines and develop them into new research directions.
