The Faculty of Communication was established at the Wrocław University of Science and Technology On September 1, 1952. Its headquarters was located in the building at Bolesława Prusa Street (now E-1). At the same time, a new Department of Telemechanics and Control was established. In the beginning, the department had two employees: professor Zygmunt Szparkowski (its founder and head) and Jerzy Bromirski, PhD, Eng. It was the first control systems department in Poland, where control specialists were educated from the very beginning. Over time, a second specialty emerged – the logic circuits theory, which later transformed into the specialization – digital machines. As part of the control systems specialization, classes were conducted in the field of control devices and systems, telemechanics, the regulation and control theory, digital technology, automatic control, telemetry, etc. The curricula were based on relevant foreign examples. The basic model was initially the program of the Moscow Energy Institute (MEI), from which Professor Tiemnikov came to the Department. Lectures were mainly based on foreign literature. Teaching laboratories were created by the employees and students' own efforts. The financial resources for the equipment were really small. With great effort, it was possible to obtain small funds necessary for the implementation of laboratory work, the performance of some practical diploma theses and the adaptation of equipment obtained from the industry for laboratory purposes. Despite these difficulties, in a relatively short time the Department owned one of the best control systems laboratories in the country. Already in 1953, the first control systems engineers in the country graduated from the Faculty of Communication. Two years later, the first MA engineers of this specialization left the Wrocław University of Science and Technology.

In 1963, a group centred around Professor Jerzy Bromirski sprang from the Department of Telemechanics and Control, creating the Department of Digital Machines. The staff of the Department (apart from its head) included 3 senior assistants, 2 assistants and 1 laboratory assistant. Professor Bromirski was a great enthusiast of digital machines, although this enthusiasm was not initially shared in the community. The department name did not come from its initiator, but was imposed outside the University. The department dealt mainly with the methods of synthesizing logical structures of digital devices and the theory of designing basic logical elements. Over the years, the condition of digital technology science has improved significantly. It resulted from both the growing importance of the Department and the rapidly growing interest in this field and its applications, not only in the economy. The construction and the use of digital machines began to be defined as computer engineering. It began to be assigned an important role as a carrier of technical, economic and civilization progress. Professor Jerzy Bromirski became a member of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Theory Committee in 1960, and in 1962 a representative of Poland and a member of the IFAC subcommittee on the theory of automatic devices. From 1966, he was also a member of the praesidium of the Polish Committee for Automatic Information Processing.

In 1966, the name of the Faculty of Communications was changed to the Faculty of Electronics. On September 1, 1968, Wrocław University of Science and Technology changed from department to the institute system, and then the Department of Telemechanics and Control and the Department of Digital Machines were combined, creating the Institute of Engineering Cybernetics (ICT, I-6). The combination of these two departments defined the scientific and didactic profile of the Institute for many years. The initiator and the first director of the created organizational unit was professor Zygmunt Szparkowski. In 1969, the Institute was moved to a new building at Zygmunt Janiszewskiego Street. In 1973, the Department of Fundamentals of Cybernetics and Robotics was established as part of the Institute, under the supervision of Professor Jerzy Jaroń. This expanded the scope of the institute's activities to include the general theory of systems, and then (around 1980) also towards robotics. At that time, a new field of study was being formed at technical universities – Control Systems and Robotics, which was launched at the Faculty of Electronics of the Wrocław University of Science and Technology in 1987, and 16 years later it was officially accredited.

In 2005, the I-6 Institute was renamed: the Institute of Computer Engineering, Control and Robotics.
The directors of the Institute were:

• 1968 - 1972 - Professor Zygmunt Szparkowski, PhD, DSc, Eng,
• 1972 - 1981 - Professor Tadeusz Batycki, PhD, DSc, Eng,
• 1981 - 1984 - doc. Ludwik Żebrowski, DSc, Eng,
• 1984 - 1987 - Professor Jerzy Jaroń, PhD, DSc, Eng,
• 1987 - 1993 - Professor Wojciech Zamojski, PhD, DSc, Eng,
• 1993 - 1996 - Professor Józef Grabowski, PhD, DSc, Eng,
• 1996 - 1999 - Janusz Biernat, PhD, DSc, Eng,
• 1999 - 2005 - Profesor Ewaryst Rafajłowicz, PhD, DSc, Eng,
• 2005 - 2014 - Professor Czesław Smutnicki, PhD, DSc, Eng.

In 2014, there was another reorganization of the Wrocław University of Science and Technology and a return to the department system. The Institute's achievements have been undertaken and developed by three departments: the Department of Control Systems, Mechatronics and Control Systems, the Department of Computer Engineering and the Department of Cybernetics and Robotics.