In April 2021,
CAMERA (The Center for Advanced Mathematics for Energy Research Applications) held a workshop titled "Autonomous Discovery in Science and Engineering". One of the key takeaways of that workshop was that Autonomous Experimentation is a multi-faceted endeavor that needs mastery in many different areas of expertise to be executed succesfully for any given set of instruments. CASE was created to facilitate collaborations and information exchange to accelerate the adoption of autonomous methods and aid scientific discovery.