The Advanced Research and Innovation Center (ARIC) is a research center within Khalifa University (KU), Abu Dhabi. ARIC is a joint venture between KU, a regionally leading research university, and Mubadala, a sovereign investor managing a USD 302B portfolio. 

Operating at all levels of the technology readiness level (TRL) spectrum, ARIC takes fundamental research from the academic domain and mature it to reach the industrial domain. ARIC has successfully developed and deployed, with accreditation, robotic industrial solutions in the aerospace manufacturing and MRO sectors.