LAMAR (our Large Additive Manufacturing Articulating Robot) is ARL/PSU’s custom-engineered, large-format Directed Energy Deposition (DED) platform designed to accelerate advanced materials and manufacturing research. This next-generation system integrates high-rate metal deposition, real-time sensing, and intelligent process control into a single, flexible, mid-TRL environment—positioning it as a national asset for fundamental and applied R&D.