Workshop Description  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 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 int