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Takashi Taniguchi is a pioneering figure in the automated assembly of van der Waals heterostructures, a field that stacks atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) crystals to create materials with unprecedented quantum properties. His major contributions lie at the intersection of robotics, machine learning, and materials science, where he has revolutionized the traditionally manual and painstaking process of building these superlattices. Taniguchi’s landmark 2018 paper on autonomous robotic searching and assembly of 2D crystals (296 citations) introduced a system that dramatically accelerates the fabrication of van der Waals heterostructures by overcoming the random positions and shapes of exfoliated crystals. He further advanced this work by integrating deep-learning-based image segmentation with optical microscopy (2020, 162 citations), enabling fully automated identification of 2D materials like graphene and hexagonal boron nitride. His 2020 study on fast robotic detection using deep neural networks (15 citations) underscores his commitment to speed and accuracy. By replacing repetitive manual tasks with intelligent automation, Taniguchi has opened new avenues for scalable, high-throughput discovery of quantum materials, making him a key enabler in the next generation of condensed matter physics and nanoelectronics.