The research activities promoted and developed by the Institute of Intelligent Industrial Systems and Technologies for Advanced Manufacturing are contextualised in four main application areas: Digital, Industry and Space; Health; Climate, Energy and Mobility; Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment.

The scientific and technological skills that characterise the Institute are applied in these areas and can be organised according to seven main macro research areas: Machine Perception and Intelligent Systems;

Robotics and Advanced Mechatronic Systems, Automatics; Advanced Manufacturing Technologies; Textile Materials, Products and Processes; Sustainability, Circular Economy and Innovation; Digital, Knowledge Representation, Modelling and Simulation Technologies; Bioengineering and Technologies for Health and Wellbeing.