| 2009/02/19 | The 1st data collection experiment at the AR-NE3A was carried out using PAM5. |
| 2009/02/11 | Prof. Drell (Director Generall of SLAC) visited AR-NW12A and PAM3. |
| 2009/01/16 | A new robot PAM5 for the beamline AR-NE3A was delivered. |
| 2008/12/23 | FY2008-B robot operation was finished. 1526 samples were mounted by the robots. |
| 2008/10/10 | FY2008-B robot operation have been started. |
| 2008/10/08 | Vice-minister of science of Iran visited AR-NW12A and PAM3. |
| 2008/08/31 | The NW12A robot was demonstrated at the KEK open house. |
| 2008/08/28-29 | The robots were explained at the IUCr2008. "Approach for automated data collection at the Photon Factory protein crystallography beamlines", Masahiko Hiraki, Naohiro Matsugaki, Yusuke Yamada, Noriyuki Igarashi, Yurii Gaponov, Shokei Watanabe, Kumiko Sasajima, Nobuo pHonda and Soichi Wakatsuki |
| 2008/06/27 | FY2008-A robot operation was finished. 1203 sample pins were mounted by the robots. |
| 2008/05/02 | The double-tongs ver.3 were installed on the BL-5A robot and the NW12A robot. |
| 2008/04/10 | The robots were set up. |
| 2008/04 | "High throughput operation of sample exchange robots with double-tongs at the PF", Masahiko Hiraki, Shokei Watanabe, Nobuo pHonda, Yusuke Yamada, Naohiro Matsugaki, Noriyuki Igarashi, Yurii Gaponov and Soichi Wakatsuki, J.of Synchrotron Radiation, Vol.15, pp.300-303 |
| 2008/03/09 | FY2007-C robot operation was finished. 932 sample pins were mounted by the robots. |
| 2008/01/15 | The robots were set up. |
| 2008/01/09 | We modified the dryer. |
| 2007/12/14 | FY2007-B robot operation was finished. 742 sample pins were exchanged by the robots. |
| 2007/11/06 | The robots were explained at the AsCA2007. "High Throughput Protein Crystal Exchange Robots of the Photon Factory Beamlines", Masahiko Hiraki, Shokei Watanabe, Nobuo pHonda, Yusuke Yamada, Naohiro Matsugaki, Noriyuki Igarashi, Yurii Gaponov and Soichi Wakatsuki |
| 2007/09/25 | The robots were set up. |
| 2007/09/11 | "High throughput operation of sample exchange robots with double-tongs at the PF beamlines", Masahiko Hiraki, Shokei Watanabe, Nobuo pHonda, Yusuke Yamada, Naohiro Matsugaki, Noriyuki Igarashi, Yurii Gaponov and Soichi Wakatsuki, ISDSB2007. |
| 2007/08/14 | The double-tongs and the robots were introduced at the BSR2007. "High Throughput Sample Exchange Robots at the Photon Factory", Masahiko Hiraki, Shokei Watanabe, Nobuo pHonda, Yusuke Yamada, Naohiro Matsugaki, Noriyuki Igarashi, Yurii Gaponov and Soichi Wakatsuki |
| 2007/07/10 | The base of the BL-5A robot was modified. |
| 2007/06/27 | FY2007-A robot operation was finished. 608 sample pins were exchanged by the robots. |
| 2007/04/19 | The 1st user of the BL-17A robot came. |
| 2007/03/29 | The robots were set up. |
| 2007/03/10 | FY2006-C robot operation was finished. 405 sample pins were exchanged by the robots. |
| 2007/02/19 | Setup of the BL-17A robot was finished. |
| 2007/02/07 | The 4th robot was installed at the BL-17A. |
| 2007/02/05 | The double-tongs ver.2 was installed on the BL-5A robot. |
| 2007 | "Automated Sample Exchange Robots for the Structural Biology Beam Lines at the Photon Factory", Masahiko Hiraki, Shokei Watanabe, Yusuke Yamada, Naohiro Matsugaki, Noriyuki Igarashi, Yurii Gaponov, Soichi Wakatsuki, AIP conference proceedings |
| 2007/01/19 | The robots were set up. |
| 2006/12/19 | FY2006-B robot operation was finished. |
| 2006/12/04 | The BL-17A robot was delivered. |
| 2006/11/24 | The robots were introduced at the AOF2006. The BL-5A robot was demonstrated after the conference. High-throughput Protein Structural Analysis System at the Structural Biology Research Center in KEK-PF, Masahiko Hiraki, Masanori Kobayashi, Yusuke Yamada, Naohiro Matsugaki, Noriyuki Igarashi, Yurii A.Gaponov, Ryuichi Kato and Soichi Wakatsuki |
| 2006/11/20 | The robots were introduced at the AsCA2006. High-throughput and Automated Protein Crystallography at the Photon Factory, Masahiko Hiraki, Ryuichi Kato, Masanori Kobayashi, Yusuke Yamada, Naohiro Matsugaki, Noriyuki Igarashi, Yurii A.Gaponov and Soichi Wakatsuki |
| 2006/11/07 | First NW12A robot user came after the workshop. |
| 2006/10/22 | The robots were introduced at the ICSG2006. "High-throughput Protein Structural Analysis at the Structural Biology Research Center in KEK-PF", Masahiko Hiraki, Masanori Kobayashi, Yusuke Yamada, Naohiro Matsugaki, Noriyuki Igarashi, Yurii A.Gaponov and Soichi Wakatsuki |
| 2006/10/17 | First BL-5A robot user came after the workshop. |
| 2006/10/04 | The workshop of the robot was held at the BL-5A. |
| 2006/09/03 | The NW12A robot was demonstrated at the KEK open house. The robot could exchange 352 sample pins. |
| 2006/04/19 | The 3rd robot was delivered, which was developed for R&D. |
| 2005/10/24 | The control software was almost developed. |
| 2005/08/23 | The robots were introduced at the IUCr2005. "High-throughput Protein Crystallization", Masahiko Hiraki, Ryuichi Kato, Yusuke Yamada, Naohiro Matsugaki, Noriyuki Igarashi and Soichi Wakatsuki |
| 2004/03 | The 1st and 2nd robots were developed. |