3D Printing Soft Robots -- Adaptive Fault Tolerant Crotroller for Nonlinear Active Suspension -- Ultraviolet Curable Materials for 3d Printing Soft Robots: From Hydrogels to Elastomers and Shape Memory Polymers -- Design and Grasping Experiments of a Three-Branch Dexterous Soft Gripper -- Modelling Analysis of a Soft Robotic Arm Based on Pneumatic-Network Structure -- Integrated DLP and DIW 3D Printer for Flexible Electronics -- Bi-Directional Deformation, Stiffness-Tunable, and Electrically Controlled Soft Actuators Based on LCEs 4D Printing -- Multi-Material Integrated Printing of Reprogrammable Magnetically Actuated Soft Structures -- A Lightweight Jumping Robot with Untethered Actuation -- Dielectric Elastomer Actuators for Soft RoboticsLanding Trajectory and Control Optimization for Helicopter in Tail Rotor Pitch Lockup -- A Dual-Mode Micro Flapping Wing Robot with Water Gliding and Taking-Off Motion -- A Self-Loading Suction Cup Driven by Resonant-Impact Dielectric Elastomer Artificial Muscles -- Model-Free Adaptive Control of Dielectric Elastomer Actuator -- Modeling and Design Optimization of a Pre-Stretched Rolled Dielectric Elastomer Actuator -- Structural Dynamics Modeling with Modal Parameters and Excitation Decoupling Method Based on Energy Distribution -- Force Sensor-Based Linear Actuator Stiffness Rendering Control -- Design, Modeling and Control of a Dielectric Elastomer Actuated Micro-Positioning Stage -- Tension Distribution Algorithm of Flexible Cable Redundant Traction for Stable Motion of Air-Bearing Platform -- Research on High-Frequency Motion Control of Voice Coil Motors Based on Fuzzy PID -- Feedback Linearization with Improved ESO For Quadrotor Attitude Control -- Design and Analysis of a Flexible Joint Actuator Based on Peano-Hasel with Performance Enhancement Characteristics -- Human-like Locomotion and Manipulation -- Walking Stability Analysis of Biped Robot Based on Actuator Response Characteristics -- Design of an Actuator for Biped Robots Based on the Axial Flux Motor -- Omnidirectional Walking Realization of A Biped Robot -- Control of the Wheeled Bipedal Robot on Roads with Large and Unknown Inclination -- Nonsmooth Dynamic Modeling of a Humanoid Robot with Parallel Mechanisms -- Human-Like Dexterous Manipulation for Anthropomorphic Hand-Arm Robotic System via Teleoperation -- Design of a Compact Anthropomorphic Robotic Hand with Hybrid Linkage and Direct Actuation -- Application of Compliant Control in Position-Based Humanoid Robot -- Fast Walking of Position-Controlled Biped Robot Based on Whole-Body Compliance Control -- Whole Body Balance Control for Bipedal Robots Based on Virtual Model Control -- Design and Implementation of Lightweight Thigh Structures for Biped Robots Based on Spatial Lattice Structure and Additive Manufacturing Technology -- Design of a Humanoid Robot Foot with a Lattice Structure for Absorbing Ground Impact Forces -- An Action Evaluation and Scaling Algorithm for Robot Motion Planning -- Design and Control of the Biped Robot HTY -- SPSOC: Staged Pseudo-Spectral Optimal Control Optimization Model For Robotic Chinese Calligraphy -- Obstacle Avoidance Path Planning Method Based on DQN-HER -- Realizing Human-like Walking and Running with Feedforward Enhanced Reinforcement Learning -- Research on Target Trajectory Planning Method of Humanoid Manipulators Based on Reinforcement Learning -- Study on the Impact Performance of the Joint Cycloid Reducer for Legged Robots -- An Optimal Configuration Solution of 8-DOF Redundant Manipulator for Flying Ball -- Smooth Composite-space RRT: An Improved Motion Planner for Manipulators under Incomplete Orientation Constraint -- Cooperative Control of Dual-Arm Robot of Adaptive Impedance Controller Based on RBF Neural Network -- Trajectory Tracking Control for Robot Manipulator under Dynamic Environment -- Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning for Smart Robots -- A High-Temperature Resistant Robot for Fixed-Point Firefighting -- Multiscale Dual-Channel Attention Network for Point Cloud Analysis -- Study on Quantitative Precipitation Estimation and Model's Transfer Performance by Incorporating Dual Polarization Radar Variables -- Research on Object Detection Methods in Low-light Conditions -- Image Recovery and Object Detection Integrated Algorithms for Robots in Harsh Battlefield Environments -- A Fuzzy-Based Improved Dynamic Window Approach for Path Planning of Mobile Robot -- Is the Encoder Necessary in DETR-Type Models? - Analysis of Encoder Redundancy -- Image Enhancement Algorithm Based on Multi-Scale Convolution Neural Network.

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.