Cognitive Robotics

Scope

There is growing need for robots that can interact safely with people in everyday situations. These robots have to be able to anticipate the effects of their own actions as well as the actions and needs of the people around them.

Activities

Upcoming Events

OCARE: Opportunities and Challenges for Assistive Robotics in Elderly Care (RO-MAN 2026)
The workshop aims to discuss how assistive robotics research can more effectively translate into meaningful support in the context of care for older adults. Focusing on the objective to close the gap between social needs and technological solutions, the workshop particularly fits with the field of Cognitive Robotics.
Join the event: https://ocare.sciencesconf.org/
MILE: Misaligned Interaction and Learning Engagement strategies in human–robot collaboration (RO-MAN 2026)
The workshop M.I.L.E. aims to explore how robotic systems can detect, reason about, and adapt to evolving or partially shared goals in dynamic human-centered environments. Following the principles of Cognitive Robotics, this workshop has the goal to promote adaptive, socially robust, and context-aware robotic systems capable of operating beyond idealized cooperative assumptions.
Join the event: https://www.iri.upc.edu/workshops/mile2026/index.html

EVENTS, SCHOOLS, and SPECIAL ISSUES

  • Latin American Summer School on Robotics (LACORO). December 8-12th, Rancagua, Chile. Registration opens on June 1st.

RELEVANT ONGOING INITIATIVES AND PROJECTS

euROBIN – the european excellence network on AI-powered Robotics
As robots are entering unstructured environments with a large variety of tasks, they will need to quickly acquire new abilities to solve them. Humans do so very effectively through a variety of methods of knowledge transfer – demonstration, verbal explanation, writing, the Internet. In robotics, enabling the transfer of skills and software between robots, tasks, research groups, and application domains will be a game changer for scaling up the robot abilities. Towards this, the euROBIN network aims to advance AI tools, software, architectures, and hardware components in a reproducible Approach. Project Website: https://www.eurobin-project.eu/index.php
EuroCore repository – a vehicle for transferability in Robotics
The main vehicle intended for transfer within the euROBIN project is the EuroCore repository. It will contain the software tools and common infrastructure needed for implementing transferable robotic Solutions.
Preparation Workshop Webpage: https://erf2024.eu/programme/session/eurocore-repository-a-vehicle-for-transferability-in-robotics/

Highlights

2026 Workshops and Summer Schools

HRI 2026 Workshop on Errors, Mistakes and Failures in Humans and Robots
2025 IEEE RAS Most Active Technical Committee Award

Our TC has been awarded the 2025 Most Active Technical Committee Award!
This recognition reflects our collective efforts to advance the cognitive robotics community through various initiatives and events. We extend our heartfelt gratitude to all who have contributed: this success would not have been possible without the many events organized by our members in the past year.

2025 Workshops and Summer Schools

 

Dissemination of the TC activities by Marta Lagomarsino, one of the workshop organizers

 

Best Paper and Best Video Awards sponsored by TC CO-RO

 

Happy hour @Humanoids2024, Nancy FR

Social event to learn about TC CO-RO mission, current activities, and the support provided to the cognitive robotics community.

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72 registered participants!

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Outcomes of the questionnaire proposed to the happy hour attendees:
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2024 Workshops and Summer Schools





Dissemination activities with TC CO-RO flyers at ICRA40, ECCV2024, and European Researchers’ Night.

advancing GROup UNderstanding and robots’ aDaptive behavior (GROUND) workshop, 2nd edition, held at RSS2024.

 

Best Poster Award sponsored by TC CO-RO:
“Moderating Group Conversation Dynamics with Social Robots”, Lucrezia Grassi et al.
“Egocentric Robots in a Human-Centric World? Exploring Group-Robot-Interaction in Public Spaces”, Ana Muller et al.








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