  The High Angular Resolution Monolithic Optical and Near-infrared Integral
field spectrograph (HARMONI) is the visible and near-infrared (NIR),
adaptive-optics-assisted, integral field spectrograph for ESO's Extremely Large
Telescope (ELT). It will have both a single-conjugate adaptive optics (SCAO)
mode (using a single bright natural guide star) and a laser tomographic
adaptive optics (LTAO) mode (using multiple laser guide stars), providing near
diffraction-limited hyper-spectral imaging with high performance and good sky
coverage, respectively. A unique high-contrast adaptive optics (HCAO)
capability has recently been added for exoplanet characterisation. A large
detector complement of eight HAWAII-4RG arrays, four choices of spaxel scale,
and 11 grating choices with resolving powers ranging from R~3000 to R~17000
make HARMONI a very versatile instrument that can cater to a wide range of
observing programmes.
