The Special Session of the 34th International Conference on Robotics in Alpe-Adria-Danube Region, RAAD 2025, entitled Cognitive Intelligence in Industrial Robots and Manufacturing, will be organized by MCSecurity team members in Belgrade. The Palace of Science, endowed by Miodrag Kostić, will host academic and industrial robotics researchers from June 18-20, 2025. It is the first center in Serbia for research and popularization of science.

The session will contribute to the deployment of digital infrastructure through new cognitive intelligence mechanisms. With the implementation of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) based on Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and interconnection of all levels of automation pyramid, Industrial Control Systems (ICS) within Industry 4.0 are no longer isolated islands, but a part of connected world. They are realized through ubiquitous communication of smart devices. Autonomous systems as significant element of ICS applied in different manufacturing assets such as Numerically Controlled (NC) machine tools and Industrial Robots are the main stream of the interests within this session. They are already widely implemented using IIoT principles, but the competitiveness of experts in domain of cognitive issues needs to increase at international level. The focus of the session will be the generation of new ML-based cognitive intelligence mechanisms for NC machine tools and visually controlled intelligent industrial/mobile robots, as well as the integrated process planning and scheduling/rescheduling of cyber-physical manufacturing systems in case that for example, cyber-attack occurs. The Special Session will have a direct impact on scientific community, industry, education, and society as a whole through the development of innovative solutions, generation of experts in the area of ICS and raising the awareness of industry, other stakeholders and general public about cognitive issues especially in ICS.