PCAR 2010 will be an opportunity to step back from technical details, and discuss the broader-picture applications of theory and philosophy in practical systems.

We are interested in designing and building robots that: can adapt to changing environments; understand what they are doing and their context in the world; and understand the relationship between internal and external representations of the world. We see theory as crucial to solving the technical bottlenecks.

We intend to focus the workshop conversation around symbol grounding, intelligence dynamics, representing tactics in soccer or multi-robot coordination and cooperation, and how one might construct robots that actually know what they are doing.

PCAR 2010 will be discussion-oriented workshop spanning one day. Short talks by distinguished invited speakers will serve as cues for open discussion on the pressing philosophical and technical challenges involved in applying knowledge representation and artificial intelligence to the practice of cognitive agents.