This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference on Towards
Autonomous Robotics TAROS 2016 held in Sheffield UK in June July 2016. The 23 revised full
papers presented together with 15 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 56
submissions. The overall program covers various aspects of robotics including navigation
planning sensing and perception flying and swarm robots ethics humanoid robotics
human-robot interaction and social robotics.
