This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference on Towards
Autonomous Robotics TAROS 2018 held in Bristol UK in July 2018.The 38 full papers presented
together with 14 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 68 submissions. The
papers focus on presentation and discussion of the latest results and methods in autonomous
robotics research and applications. The conference offers a friendly environment for robotics
researchers and industry to take stock and plan future progress.