[PlanetKR] Call for Papers: CogRob 2025 - International Cognitive Robotics Workshop at KR 2025

[Ron Petrick]

*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*

   - *Submission deadline:* August 4, 2025 (UTC-12)
   - *Notification of acceptance:* August 25, 2025

*Topics*

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

We especially welcome discussions and demonstrations of robotic
applications and implemented robotic systems that utilize AI and related
methods.

*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.

All papers will be presented during the workshop and will appear in the
workshop proceedings, which will be published electronically.

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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