The vision of the REAL lab is to do research on the border between fiction and fact, to create new, feasible solutions for the society of tomorrow. The lab has an interdisciplinary experimental practice and explores what-if scenarios using fundamental science and engineering to work towards the realization of these scenarios. Academically, the group is rooted in artificial intelligence with specific interests in robotics and evolutionary computation, but generally the research agenda is driven by opportunities arising both within science and in society.

An ITU Lab is an organizational unit tasked with specific, ongoing contributions to several of the 
following areas: research, teaching, outreach, innovation, or organization. The purpose of an ITU Lab is 
to provide a unique and beneficial contribution to ITU, its mission, staff, and/or students by bridging 
the gap between different areas of ITU’s activities and making them visible inside and outside of ITU.