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The Automation, Robotics, and Manfucturing (ARM) Group's capabilities and interests range from basic research—with fundamental development in motion planning, reasoning methodology, and advanced controls—to one-of-a-kind integrated system design, development, testing, and evaluation.  Major areas of research and development include sensor-based robotics (including mobile robots, advanced manipulators, and combined mobility manipulation systems), human-amplifying machines (including technologies for exoskeletons, human-assist systems, strength-amplifying machines, and prosthetics), power transfer devices (actuation technologies), and energy-transformation systems (mostly for portable energy supplies).  Areas in which the group has developed exceptional capabilities include fluidics actuation and controls, both for high-precision and high-payload (multi-ton) systems and for mesoscale (millimeter to centimeter scale) systems; omnidirectional and holonomic mobility systems (an area in which ARM holds a number of patents and an R&D-100 award); human-strength-amplification systems and controls; biomedical robotics (automated surgical assisting robots, prosthetics, rehabilitation-assist devices); actuation technologies for robotic operations in high-temperature environments; advanced logistics systems (cargo and weapons transport and handling); and microassembly (assembly of microscale/nanoscale components for three-dimensional micromachines).