This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference on Towards
Autonomous Robotics TAROS 2017 held in Guildford UK in July 2017. The 43 revised full
papers presented together with 13 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 66
submissions. The papers discuss robotics research drawn from a wide and diverse range of topics
such as swarm and multi-robotic systems human-robot interaction robotic learning and
imitation robot navigation planning and safety humanoid and bio-inspired robots mobile
robots and vehicles robot testing and design detection and recognition learning and adaptive
behaviours interaction soft and reconfigurable robots and service and industrial robots.
