2026
Why Cognitive Robotics Matters: Lessons from OntoAgent and LLM Deployment in HARMONIC for Safety-Critical Robot Teaming
Sanjay Oruganti, Sergei Nirenburg, Marjorie McShane, Jesse English, Michael Roberts, Christian Arndt +2
ICRA 2026poster
Robots operating alongside humans must recognize what they do not know before acting, diagnose problems from domain knowledge, and reason about action consequences. These capabilities are operational requirements, not optimization targets, and their absence produces silent and unrecoverable failures…