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Research
IIT research results are for humanity’s good and prosperity
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IIT strategic plan
IIT scientific activity is based on a strategic plan which is updated every 6 years
2018-23 Strategic Plan is organized in four research domains: Computational Science, Life Technologies (Life Tech), Nanomaterials, and Robotics.
Independent Principal Investigators (PIs) lead research lines coordinated under the umbrella of the research domains.
Inter-domain Research
Facilities
IIT facilities contribute to the development of the Strategic Plan. High-qualified facility staff provides scientific and technical assistance for basic and applied research, relying on state-of-art equipment. Each facility offers researchers and students an extensive range of services from essential routine to more advanced technical and consulting services.
Initiatives
Initiatives are visionary research directions that leverage on IIT’s unique standing and excellent research infrastructure “to lead us where no one has been before”. Initiatives contribute to IIT’s positioning in their respective field, to training of young scientists and, importantly, to creating the necessary critical mass. Initiatives further contribute to address the big societal challenges defined in the Strategic Plan, namely, sustainability, health care and the ageing population.
iCog
An open-source initiative started at IIT with the goal of advancing our knowledge of human cognition by designing, building, and sharing a common cognitive architecture for an embodied artificial system such as the iCub humanoid robot.
iMat
The Initiative brings together Principal Investigators of different IIT research lines with the aim of applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) to new challenges in the field of Materials Science.
iRNA
Initiative focuses on non-coding RNAs whose knowledge has experienced the most rapid growth in recent years, thanks to the advent of omic technologies and next-generation sequencing.
Robotics for a better life
The Initiative takes a multidisciplinary approach to advance research in robotics and translates the Robotics RD objective of making robots self-aware, adaptable, and interactive into substantial component technologies.
Sustainability
The Initiative clusters and coordinates the various research activities under new and common Technological Deliverables, which tackle specific sustainability goals of global economical, societal and environmental importance.
VISPI
An initiative to visualize molecular interactions and electronic processes at nano-interfaces, with the final target to deliver new technologies, which combine efficiency, sustainability, and full integration into everyday life.
Moonshot projects
What is a moonshot project? It is a plan designed to reach the (almost) impossible. We are working on ambitious plans to overcome knowledge limits and design the future.
iCub
iCub is a research-grade humanoid robot designed to support the development and testing of embodied AI algorithms. iCub is the ideal companion to your robotics laboratory.
SPACEIIT
SPACEIIT is the hub of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (iit) dedicated to Interdisciplinary and Innovative Space Technology.