On 1 September 1952, the Faculty of Communications was established at Wrocaw University of Technology, with its headquarters in the building on Bolesawa Prusa Street (now E-1), and with it, a new Department of Telemechanics and Automatics was created. At the time of its establishment, the Department had two staff members, who were Professor Zygmunt Szparkowski, its founder and head, and Dr. Jerzy Bromirski. It was the first Department of Automatics in Poland in which automatics was trained from the very beginning. Over time, a second specialization emerged - the theory of logic circuits, which became the beginning of the future specialization of digital machines. Within the automation specialization, classes were taught in automation components and systems as well as telemechanics, regulation and control theory, digital technology, automatic control, telemetry, etc. The curricula were modeled on relevant foreign examples. The basic model was initially the program of the Moscow Energy Institute (MEI), from where Professor Tiemnikov came to the Department. Lectures were mainly based on foreign literature. Teaching laboratories were created by the own efforts of staff and students. Funding for laboratory equipment was more than modest. It was a great effort to obtain the small funds necessary to carry out the work in the laboratory, to carry out part of the practical dissertations, and to adapt equipment obtained from industry for laboratory purposes. Despite these difficulties, in a relatively short period, the Department could boast one of the best teaching laboratories for automation in the country. As early as 1953, the Department produced the country's first industrial automation engineers. Two years later, the first MSc engineers in this specialization left the Wrocaw University of Technology.

In 1963, a group centered around Professor Jerzy Bromirski separated from the Department of Telemechanics and Automation to form the Department of Digital Machine Design. At the time of its establishment, the Department's staff, in addition to its head, consisted of 3 senior assistants, 2 assistants, and 1 laboratory technician. Professor Bromirski was a great enthusiast of digital machines, although this enthusiasm was not initially shared in the community. The name of the Department, in particular, the term "Department of Construction... ", did not come from its originator, but was imposed from outside the University. The Department was mainly concerned with methods of synthesis of logic structures of digital devices and with the theory of design of basic logic elements. Over the years, the situation of the digital technology practiced in this department underwent a definite change for the better. This was due both to the growing importance of the Department and to the exponentially increasing interest in this field and its applications, not only in the economy. The construction and application of digital machines came to be referred to as computer science and was assigned a huge role not only as a vehicle of technical or economic progress but also as a vehicle of civilizational progress. Professor Jerzy Bromirski became a member of the Theory Committee of the International Federation of Automation (IFAC) in 1960 and a representative of Poland and a member of the IFAC Subcommittee on the Theory of Automatics in 1962. He was also a member of the Presidium of the Polish Committee for Automatic Information Processing from 1966.

In 1966, the Faculty of Communications has renamed the Faculty of Electronics. On 1 September 1968, the Wrocaw University of Technology changed from a departmental system to an institute system, and at that time the Department of Telemechanics and Automation and the Department of Digital Machine Construction were merged to form the Institute of Engineering Cybernetics (ICT, I-6). The amalgamation of these two departments defined the scientific and teaching profile of the Institute for many years. The organizer and first director of the organizational unit thus created was Professor Zygmunt Szparkowski. In 1969, the Institute was moved to a new building at 11 Zygmunta Janiszewskiego St. In 1973, the Department of Fundamentals of Cybernetics and Robotics was established within the Institute, under the direction of Professor Jerzy Jaron, completing the scope of the Institute's activities, initially in the field of general systems theory, to start evolving towards robotics around 1980, which was also influenced by the Professor's literary fascinations. At that time, a new field of study was being formed at technical universities - Automation and Robotics, which was launched at the Faculty of Electronics of the Warsaw University of Technology in 1987, to be officially accredited 16 years later.
In 2005, the I-6 Institute took the name of the Institute of Computer Science, Automation, and Robotics. The directors of the Institute were successive:
1968 - 1972 - Professor Zygmunt Szparkowski,
1972 - 1981 - Professor Tadeusz Batycki,
1981 - 1984 - Associate Professor Ludwik Zebrowski,
1984 - 1987 - Professor Jerzy Jaron,
1987 - 1993 - Professor Wojciech Zamojski,
1993 - 1996 - Professor Jozef Grabowski,
1996 - 1999 - Professor Janusz Biernat,
1999 - 2005 - Professor Ewaryst Rafajowicz,
2005 - 2014 - Professor Czesaw Smutnicki.
In 2014, there was another reorganization of the Wrocaw University of Technology and a return to the departmental system. The achievements of the Institute have been taken up and developed by three departments: the Department of Control Systems and Mechatronics, the Department of Computer Engineering, and the Department of Cybernetics and Robotics.