Call for Papers: CogRob 2025 - International Cognitive Robotics Workshop at KR 2025
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CogRob 2025 - International Cognitive Robotics Workshop at KR 2025
November 11, 12, or 13, 2025
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
https://www.cogrob-workshop.org/2025/
Aim and Scope of the Workshop
Research in robotics has traditionally emphasized low-level sensing and control tasks including sensory processing, path planning, and manipulator design and control. In contrast, research in cognitive robotics is concerned with endowing robots and software agents with higher-level cognitive functions that enable them to reason, act, and perceive in changing, incompletely known, and unpredictable environments. Such robots must, for example, be able to reason about goals, actions, when to perceive and what to look for, the cognitive states of other agents, time, collaborative task execution, etc. In short, cognitive robotics is concerned with integrating reasoning, perception and action with a uniform theoretical and implementation framework.
The use of both software robots (softbots) and physical robotic artifacts in everyday life is on the upswing and we are seeing increasingly more examples of their use in society with commercial products around the corner and some already on the market. As interaction with humans increases, so does the demand for sophisticated robotic capabilities associated with deliberation and high-level cognitive functions. Combining results from the traditional robotics discipline with those from AI and cognitive science has and will continue to be central to research in cognitive robotics. The 2025 edition of the workshop will focus on the limitations of complementary approaches such as machine learning and classical AI in the context of high level control and the question how these approaches can be combined to overcome the limitations.
This workshop aims to bring together researchers involved in all aspects of the theory and implementation of cognitive robots, to discuss current work and future directions. The workshop is concerned with foundational research questions on cognitive robotics, as well as robotic system design and robotic applications that utilize AI and related methods.
Important Dates
We invite submissions of research papers from all researchers and practitioners interested in AI, machine learning, multi-agent systems and robotics, and their integration. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:
Submission Instructions
Potential participants are invited to submit either:
Papers accepted at the main conference (technical sessions) should not be submitted to the workshop unless they are substantially extended or revised; in that case the submission should state how the final version will differ from the original paper.
Workshop contributions should be submitted by the due date via EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=cogrob2025
Formatting
Submissions must be written in English and formatted using the KR style files (https://kr.org/KR2025/files/KR25_authors_kit.zip). Author names and affiliations should be included on the paper. Only submissions in PDF will be accepted. Over length submissions will be rejected without review.
Organizers
November 11, 12, or 13, 2025
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
https://www.cogrob-workshop.org/2025/
Aim and Scope of the Workshop
Research in robotics has traditionally emphasized low-level sensing and control tasks including sensory processing, path planning, and manipulator design and control. In contrast, research in cognitive robotics is concerned with endowing robots and software agents with higher-level cognitive functions that enable them to reason, act, and perceive in changing, incompletely known, and unpredictable environments. Such robots must, for example, be able to reason about goals, actions, when to perceive and what to look for, the cognitive states of other agents, time, collaborative task execution, etc. In short, cognitive robotics is concerned with integrating reasoning, perception and action with a uniform theoretical and implementation framework.
The use of both software robots (softbots) and physical robotic artifacts in everyday life is on the upswing and we are seeing increasingly more examples of their use in society with commercial products around the corner and some already on the market. As interaction with humans increases, so does the demand for sophisticated robotic capabilities associated with deliberation and high-level cognitive functions. Combining results from the traditional robotics discipline with those from AI and cognitive science has and will continue to be central to research in cognitive robotics. The 2025 edition of the workshop will focus on the limitations of complementary approaches such as machine learning and classical AI in the context of high level control and the question how these approaches can be combined to overcome the limitations.
This workshop aims to bring together researchers involved in all aspects of the theory and implementation of cognitive robots, to discuss current work and future directions. The workshop is concerned with foundational research questions on cognitive robotics, as well as robotic system design and robotic applications that utilize AI and related methods.
Important Dates
- Submission deadline: August 4, 2025 (UTC-12)
- Notification of acceptance: August 25, 2025
We invite submissions of research papers from all researchers and practitioners interested in AI, machine learning, multi-agent systems and robotics, and their integration. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:
- AI for robotics
- Cognitive robotics
- Cognitive science
- Cognitive vision
- Combination of logical and probabilistic reasoning
- Commonsense reasoning
- Cooperative decision-making
- Diagnostic reasoning
- Execution monitoring
- Human-robot interaction
- Knowledge representation and reasoning
- Machine learning
- Motion planning
- Natural language understanding
- Perception
- Planning
- Reasoning under uncertainty
- Scheduling
- Spatio-temporal reasoning
- Speech recognition
- Symbol grounding
- System architectures
Submission Instructions
Potential participants are invited to submit either:
- A full length paper (up to 6 pages, excluding references), i.e., a technical paper for describing technically sound, innovative ideas that can advance the state of cognitive robotics; an application paper, where the emphasis is on its impact on the robotic application domain; a system/tool paper, where the emphasis is on its novelty, practicality, usability and availability, or
- A short paper (up to 2 pages, excluding references), i.e., a position paper describing specific questions and issues that the participants feel should be addressed; a demo paper describing a demonstration of a robotic application, system or tool; a technical communication aimed at describing recent developments, and new projects that are not ready for publication as regular papers.
Papers accepted at the main conference (technical sessions) should not be submitted to the workshop unless they are substantially extended or revised; in that case the submission should state how the final version will differ from the original paper.
Workshop contributions should be submitted by the due date via EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=cogrob2025
Formatting
Submissions must be written in English and formatted using the KR style files (https://kr.org/KR2025/files/KR25_authors_kit.zip). Author names and affiliations should be included on the paper. Only submissions in PDF will be accepted. Over length submissions will be rejected without review.
Organizers
- Maurice Pagnucco, University of New South Wales, Australia
- Timothy Wiley, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia
- Ron Petrick, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom
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