The 10-volume set LNAI 15201-15210 constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2024, which took place in Xi'an, China, during July 31-August 2, 2024.

The 321 full papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 489 submissions.

They were organized in topical sections as follows:

Part I: Innovative Design and Performance Evaluation of Robot Mechanisms.

Part II: Robot Perception and Machine Learning; Cognitive Intelligence and Security Control for Multi-domain Unmanned Vehicle Systems.

Part III: Emerging Techniques for Intelligent Robots in Unstructured Environment; Soft Actuators and Sensors; and Advanced Intelligent and Flexible Sensor Technologies for Robotics.

Part IV: Optimization and Intelligent Control of Underactuated Robotic Systems; and Technology and application of modular robots.

Part V: Advanced actuation and intelligent control in medical robotics: Advancements in Machine Vision for Enhancing Human-Robot Interaction; and Hybrid Decision-making and Control for Intelligent Robots.

Part VI: Advances in Marine Robotics; Visual, Linguistic, Affective Agents: Hybrid-augmented Agents for Robotics;  and Wearable Robots for Assistance, Augmentation and Rehabilitation of human movements.

Part VII: Integrating World Models for Enhanced Robotic Autonomy; Advanced Sensing and Control Technologies for Intelligent Human-Robot Interaction; and Mini-Invasive Robotics for In-Situ Manipulation.

Part VIII: Robot Skill Learning and Transfer; Human-Robot Dynamic System: Learning, Modelling and Control; AI-Driven Smart Industrial Systems; and Natural Interaction and Coordinated Collaboration of Robots in Dynamic Unstructured Environments.

Part IX: Robotics in Cooperative Manipulation, MultiSensor Fusion, and Multi-Robot Systems; Human-machine Co-adaptive Interface; Brain inspired intelligence for robotics; Planning, control and application of bionic novel concept robots; and Robust Perception for Safe Driving.

Part X:  AI Robot Technology for Healthcare as a Service; Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Models for Adaptive Human-Robot Interactions; Dynamics and Perception of Human-Robot Hybrid Systems; and Robotics for Rehabilitation: Innovations, Challenges, and Future Directions.