VRAI – Vision, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Lab is a laboratory that brings together researchers from different universities and collaborates with various national and international research centres: the Polytechnic University of Marche, the University of Macerata, the University of Chieti Pescara, the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa, the CRISP of the University of Milan Bicocca, the Polytechnic University of Turin and the Center for Design of Northeastern University in Boston, USA.

The laboratory is involved in many national and international projects and has about 40 researchers working in different areas of artificial intelligence, with an interdisciplinary approach aimed at integrating engineering and technological skills with those of the social sciences and digital humanities. The VRAI lab is active in various fields of international AI research, with over 350 published scientific articles, and is involved in various technology transfer actions of AI solutions in collaboration with national and international companies and organisations. It participates in various projects funded by the EU Commission under the Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe and Erasmus programmes.  Several spin-offs and innovative start-ups have emerged from the lab to transfer the most promising VRAI research to the market. VRAI Lab carries out scientific outreach activities in the field of AI in general and, in particular, in the world of research on the interactions between AI and education and training, and in the field of technology addiction, contributing to the wider field of digital citizenship and technology ethics.