| 1989 | Founded (Four laboratories) |
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| 1991 | Completion of Laboratory Building 1, began fully-fledged research activities in the Kansai region |
| 1993 | Increased in size to three information-related laboratories, three physicality-related laboratories, one specialist laboratory and three bio-related laboratories |
| 1994 | Completion of Laboratory Building 2 |
| 1996 | Completion of Clean Room and APII Buildings |
| 1998 | Completion of Laboratory Building 3 |
| 2000 | Three information-related laboratories were moved to the Keihanna Human Info-Communication Research Center |
| 2001.1 | The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications was reorganized into the Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications |
| 2001.3 | Completion of Laboratory Building 4 |
| 2001.4 | Newly inaugurated as the Kansai Advanced Research Center, Communications Research Laboratory, Incorporated Administrative Agency |
| 2004.4 | Communications Research Laboratory and Telecommunications Advancement Organization are reorganized as National Institute of Information and Communications Technology |
| 2006.4 | Reorganized as Kobe Advanced ICT Research Center |
| 2011.4 | Reorganized as Advanced ICT Research Institute (3 Laboratories at Kobe and 2 Laboratories at Koganei) |
| 2013.4 | Brain ICT laboratory was moved to the Center for Information and Neural Networks(2 Laboratories at Kobe and 2 Laboratories at Koganei) |
Advanced ICT Research Institute（Kobe） View from the sky