CogRob
International Cognitive Robotics Workshop
CogRob
International Cognitive Robotics Workshop
Research in robotics has traditionally emphasized low-level sensing and control tasks including sensory processing, path planning, 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, and collaborative task execution. 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 rise and people are experiencing 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 disciplines with those from AI and cognitive science has and will continue to be central to research in cognitive robotics, in order to overcome the limitations of individual but complementary approaches such as machine learning and classical AI in the context of high-level control.
The International Cognitive Robotics Workshop (CogRob) offers a venue for researchers to discuss all aspects of cognitive robotics research. More details about the recent 2025 workshop and past events can be found on this site.