Philipp Cimiano

Bielefeld University

Papers

14

Total Citations

115

H-Index

6

About

Philipp Cimiano is a leading researcher at the intersection of cognitive robotics, commonsense knowledge, and human-robot interaction. His work fundamentally addresses how robots can understand and operate in human environments by bridging the gap between symbolic knowledge and physical action. A major contribution is his development of knowledge-based architectures that use ontologies and declarative action representations, enabling robots to manipulate everyday objects without requiring exhaustive procedural programming. Cimiano has also pioneered the extraction of commonsense knowledge from unstructured and semi-structured data, a critical step for robots to generalize tasks in unknown environments. His highly cited studies, including "How to Address Smart Homes with a Social Robot?" (29 citations) and "Welcome to the Future" (28 citations), explore how naïve users intuitively interact with intelligent spaces, using multi-modal corpora to ground language acquisition and evaluate computational models. More recently, he has advanced co-constructive explainable AI and the use of generative large language models for robot manipulation planning. With over 100 publications and a systematic literature review on commonsense knowledge in cognitive robotics, Cimiano’s work is shaping how robots learn, reason, and collaborate with humans in smart environments.

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H-Index
14
Papers
115
Total Citations
8
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🏆 Most Cited Paper
How to Address Smart Homes with a Social Robot? A Multi-modal Corpus of User Interactions with an Intelligent Environment
29 citations · 2016
📈 Most Prolific Year: 2018 (4 Papers)
🤝 Key Collaborators: 51
🏛 Institutions: Bielefeld University

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