Design and Control of Legged Robots -- Leg Mass Influences the Jumping Performance of Compliant One-Legged Robots -- The Topologies Characteristics and Behaviors Design of the Curling Hexapod Robot -- Hierarchical Trajectory Optimization for Humanoid Robot Jumping Motion -- A Navigation and Control Framework of Quadrupedal Robot for Autonomous Exploration in Cave Environments -- Design and Development of The Small Hexapod Walking Robot HexWalker III -- A Rigid-Flexible Coupling Recursive Formulation for Dynamic Modeling of Biped Robots -- Robots in Tunnelling and Underground Space -- Path Planning for Muck Removal Robot of Tunnel Boring Machine -- Research on Snake-Like Robot for Cutter Inspection in Tunnel Boring Machine -- Shield Tail Seal Detection Method Driven by Twin Simulation Model Based on Intelligent Shield -- Support Boot Mechanisms of Shaft Boring Machine for Underground Vertical Tunnel Construction -- Development and Application of Rectangular Tunneling Boring Machine for Trenchless Urban Rail Transit Station Construction -- The Gordian-Innovation Technology and Recent Construction Application of Special-shaped Tunnel Boring Machine -- Research on Visual Localization of Cutter Changing Robot in Unstructured Environments -- Design of Hybrid Shield Cutter-Changing Robot and Its Motion Control Method -- TBM tunnel surrounding rock debris detection based on improved YOLO v8 -- Development and application of large curved shape pipe-roof with rectangular jacking machine under the Yangtze River -- A Shield Machine Segment Position Recognition Algorithm Based On Improved Voxel And Seed Filling -- Kinematics and Workspace Analysis of a Disc Cutter Replacement Manipulator for TBM in a Constrained Motion Space -- Mechanism Surrogate Based Model Predictive Control of Hydraulic Segment Assembly Robot with Sliding Friction -- An Investigation into Fatigue Damage and Clearance Evolution of TBM Main Bearings -- Outlier Detection and Correction for Time Series of Tunnel Boring Machine -- Robotic Machining of Complex Components -- Error Sensitivity Analysis and Tolerance Allocation Simulation of a Five-Axis Parallel Machining Robot -- High-Precision Point Cloud Data Acquisition for Robot Based on Multiple Constraints -- Flexible Functional Component for Fluidic Soft Robots -- Passive Rotation Compensation for The Cylindrical Joints of the 6-Ucu Parallel Manipulator -- Research on BP Neural Network Prediction of Position Error Considering the Variation of Industrial Robot Center of Mass -- Real-time Smooth Corner Trajectory Planning for Industrial Robots under Linear and Angular Kinematic Constraints -- Admittance Control for Robot Polishing Force Tracking Based on Reinforcement Learning -- Research on the Milling Process Damping and Stability Considering Additional Vibration -- Deep Learning-Based CNN-LSTM Model Used for Predicting Pose Error of Stewart Platform -- Research on the Influence of Forced Vibration on Process Damping and Stability Boundary in Milling -- Positioning Error Modelling and Compensation Method for Robot Machining Based on RVM -- Design and Implementation of a Novel Agricultural Robot with Multi-Modal Kinematics -- Research on High Precision Scanning Reconstruction Algorithm for Robot with Line Laser Scanner -- Smooth Joint Motion Planning for Robot Polishing by Redundancy Optimization -- Vision-Guided Mobile Robot System for The Assembly of Long Beams on Aircraft Skin -- Generation of Collision-Free Tool Posture for Robotic Belt Grinding Blisk Using Visualization Toolkit -- Clinically Oriented Design in Robotic Surgery and Rehabilitation -- A Segmented Dynamic Movement Primitives-Based Gait Assistive Strategy for Soft Ankle Exosuit -- A Magnetically Actuated Diatom-Biohybrid Microrobot as a Drug Delivery Capsule -- Research on Improved Microscope Calibration Method Based on Coplanar Points -- Kinematics Analysis and Control of a Novel Macro-Micro Integrated Hybrid Robot for Medical Surgery -- Comparative Study of Feature-Based Surface Matching Automatic Coarse Registration Algorithms for Neuronavigation -- The Effect of Channel Ordering Based on the Entropy Weight Graph on the MI-EEG Classification -- Fuzzy Variable Admittance Control -Based End Compliance Control of Puncture Ablation Robot -- Deep Forest Model combined with Neural Networks for Finger Joint continuous Angle Decoding -- 2D/3D Shape Model Registration with X-Ray Images for Patient-Specific Spine Geometry Reconstruction -- Visual and Visual-tactile Perception for Robotics -- Real-Time Detection of Surface Floating Garbage Based on Improved Yolov7 -- Real-Time Map Compression Method Based on Boolean Operation and Moore-Neighborhood Search -- Research on Location Algorithm of 5G Ceramic Filter Based on Machine Vision -- MLP Neural Network-Based Precise Localization of Robot Assembly Parts.

The 9-volume set LNAI 14267-14275 constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2023, which took place in Hangzhou, China, during July 5-7, 2023. The 413 papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 630 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Part I: Human-Centric Technologies for Seamless Human-Robot Collaboration; Multimodal Collaborative Perception and Fusion; Intelligent Robot Perception in Unknown Environments; Vision-Based Human Robot Interaction and Application. Part II: Vision-Based Human Robot Interaction and Application; Reliable AI on Machine Human Reactions; Wearable Sensors and Robots; Wearable Robots for Assistance, Augmentation and Rehabilitation of Human Movements; Perception and Manipulation of Dexterous Hand for Humanoid Robot. Part III: Perception and Manipulation of Dexterous Hand for Humanoid Robot; Medical Imaging for Biomedical Robotics; Advanced Underwater Robot Technologies; Innovative Design and Performance Evaluation of Robot Mechanisms; Evaluation of Wearable Robots for Assistance and Rehabilitation; 3D Printing Soft Robots. Part IV: 3D Printing Soft Robots; Dielectric Elastomer Actuators for Soft Robotics; Human-like Locomotion and Manipulation; Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning for Smart Robots. Part V: Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning for Smart Robots; Robotic Tactile Sensation, Perception, and Applications; Advanced Sensing and Control Technology for Human-Robot Interaction; Knowledge-Based Robot Decision-Making and Manipulation; Design and Control of Legged Robots. Part VI: Design and Control of Legged Robots; Robots in Tunnelling and Underground Space; Robotic Machining of Complex Components; Clinically Oriented Design in Robotic Surgery and Rehabilitation; Visual and Visual-Tactile Perception for Robotics. Part VII: Visual and Visual-Tactile Perception for Robotics; Perception, Interaction, and Control of Wearable Robots; Marine Robotics and Applications; Multi-Robot Systems for Real World Applications; Physical and Neurological Human-Robot Interaction. Part VIII: Physical and Neurological Human-Robot Interaction; Advanced Motion Control Technologies for Mobile Robots; Intelligent Inspection Robotics; Robotics in Sustainable Manufacturing for Carbon Neutrality; Innovative Design and Performance Evaluation of Robot Mechanisms. Part IX: Innovative Design and Performance Evaluation of Robot Mechanisms; Cutting-Edge Research in Robotics.