Intelligent Robotics and Applications

The 3-volume set, LNAI 16074-16076, constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2025, which took place in Okayama, Japan, during August 6-9, 2025. The 165 full papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 329 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Part 1: Robotic Dexterous Manipulation and Intelligent Control; Intelligent Perception and Control Technologies for Marine Robotic Systems; Intelligent Technology in Neural Decoding, Modulation, and Interfacing; Wearable Robots for Assistance, Augmentation and Rehabilitation of Human Movements; Soft Robotics. Part 2: Hand-Centric Human-Robot Collaboration Advances in Perception, Control, and Interaction; Intelligent Technology in Healthcare; Advanced Localization, Navigation and Control Technologies in Intelligent Robotic Systems; Wearable Robotics for Gait Analysis, Training, and Rehabilitation; Embodied Intelligence in Biomimetic Robotics, Humanoid Robotics. Part 3: Magnetic Actuated Microrobots for Biomedical Engineering?Design, Control, and Application; Innovative Design and Performance Evaluation of Robot Mechanisms; Sensation-Perception-Actuation-Rehabilitation Oriented Technologies for Wearable Exoskeletons; Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence: Vision, Language, Multimodal Learning, and Applications; Bio-mechatronic Integration and Rehabilitation Robots.