This LNAI 16045 volume constitutes the proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference on Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, TAROS 2025, held in York, UK, duing August 20–22, 2025.

The 32 full papers and 4 short papers, together with 4 invited papers presented in these volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 74 submissions. The papers were categorised into seven groups: Human-Robot Interaction and Teleoperation, Sensing and Perception, Locomotion and Control, Manipulation and Dexterous Interaction, Software Engineering for Robotics, Underwater Robotics and Autonomy, Aerial Robotics and Path Planning, and Challenging Environments.