The department conducts research in the field of cybernetics and robotics, with particular emphasis on modeling, control and motion planning of robots, systems theory, discrete events, perception, intelligence and operation of robots, electro- and mechanomiografic signal recognition, biocontrol, embedded systems for robotics, and human-robot interface. A new area of research activity of the Department is social robotics.

The national research cooperation includes the most important academic centers of robotics, Space Research Center, Medical Universities in Wrocław and Lublin, the Foundation for Cardiac Surgery Development in Zabrze, Industrial Research Institute for Automation and Measurements (PIAP), Office of Engineering and Design ACCREA (Lublin), Design Office CadMech (Wrocław). In the international scope the Department is working with the Department of the Technische Universität München, ETH Zurich, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Heriot-Watt University, London South Bank University, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Eötvös Loránd University, Otto-Friedrich Universität Bamberg, University of Lund, Technical University of Eindhoven, Carleton University, and Georgia Tech.