Abstract: An automatic winding machine for winding a wire-like object such as an electric wire on a drum portion of a bobbin in multiple closely packed layers. The automatic winding machine includes a position detecting member for automatically detecting the position of a wire-like object which is about to be wound around the drum portion of a bobbin, and a traverser member for the wire-like object while both the position detecting member and traverser member may operate in synchronism with each other, with the result that the winding of the wire-like object around a drum portion of a bobbin may be achieved extremely accurately over the entire width of the drum portion, with freedom from the danger of lap or irregular winding.