CogRob 2025

International Cognitive Robotics Workshop 2025
Held as part of the 22nd International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2025)
November 12, 2025
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

This workshop provides a forum for 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.

Papers

• Diagnosing Non-Executable Plans via Inconsistency Metrics: A KR-Inspired Perspective for Cognitive Robotics  [pdf]
  Isabelle Kuhlmann, Mark O. Mints, Peer Neubert, Matthias Thimm 

• Forget-Me-Not: A Memory-Centri Multi-Agent Cognitive Architecture for Long-Term Human Robot Interaction  [pdf]
  Haoqi Li, Yan Zhang, Wafa Johal

• Role of an Embodied Chatbot Agent in Understanding Influences Towards AI  [pdf]
  Ryan Farish, Ron Petrick

• Implementing Attention for Implicit Human-Robot Coordination  [video] [pdf]
  Tiago Silvério

A panel discussion on Cognitive Robotics: Current State and Future was also held at the workshop.

Program Committee

• Vaishak Belle, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Sara Bernardini, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

• Esra Erdem, Sabanci University, Turkey

• Alexander Ferrein, FH Aachen - University of Applied Sciences, Germany

• Fredrik Heintz, Linköping University, Sweden

• Yongmei Liu, Sun Yat-Sen University, China

• Torsten Schaub, University of Potsdam, Germany

• Gerald Steinbauer-Wagner, Graz University of Technology, Austria

• Shiqi Zhang, SUNY Binghamton University, USA

Organizers

• Maurice Pagnucco, University of New South Wales, Australia

• Timothy Wiley, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia

• Ron Petrick, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom