The National Bureau of Standards, Center for Manufacturing Engineering is implementing an experimental factory called the Automated Manufacturing Research Facility (AMRF). The AMRF will operate as a small batch machine shop and is currently configured with three machining workstations, a cleaning and deburring workstation and an inspection workstation. Each of these workstations will employ robotic material handling including machine loading and unloading. At present each workstation is at a different stage of completion. The "Horizontal Workstation" which contains a horizontal-spindle N.C. machine tool and one material handling robot has been completely integrated. The material handling robot is a Cincinnati Milacron T3 (hydraulic) which has been enhanced to meet the requirements of the AMRF. This robot has been equipped with a hierarchical robot control system, a 3-D vision system, a watchdog safety system and an instrumented, servo controlled gripper, all of which were developed at the National Bureau of Standards. Each of these systems is described individually together with a description of the enhanced capabilities of the robot with these systems operating as an integrated package.