A distributed approach to haptic simulation -- A Novel Two-Hand-Inspired Hybrid Robotic End-Effector Fabricated Using 3D Printing -- Investigating the relationship between posture and safety in teleoperational tasks: A pilot study in improved operational safety through enhanced human-machine interaction -- Design and Analysis of an End Effector Using the Fin Ray Structure for Integrated Limb Mechanisms -- Trigger-Assisted Ambidextrous Control Framework for Teleoperation of Two Legged Manipulators -- Teleoperating a Legged Manipulator through Whole-Body Control -- In-silico Design and Computational Modelling of Electroactive Polymer based Soft Robotics -- Exploration of Underwater Storage Facilities with Swarm of Micro-Surface Robots -- Characterization of an Inflatable Soft Actuator and Tissue Interaction for In Vitro Mechanical Stimulation of Tissue -- EMap: Real-time terrain estimation -- Design and Preliminary In-Classroom Evaluation\\of a Low-Cost Educational Mobile Robot -- Internal State-based Risk Assessment for Robots in Hazardous Environment -- Investigating Scene Visibility Estimation within ORB-SLAM3 -- Tactile and Proprioceptive Online Learning in Robotic Contour Following -- Learning cooperative behaviours in adversarial multi-agent systems -- Task Independent Safety Assessment for Reinforcement Learning -- Sensing Anomalies as Potential Hazards: Datasets and Benchmarks -- Integration and robustness analysis of the Buzz swarm programming language with the Pi-puck robot platform -- Implementing and assessing a remote teleoperation setup with a Digital Twin using cloud networking -- Agent-Based Simulation of Multi-Robot Soil Compaction Mapping -- A-EMS: An Adaptive Emergency Management System for Autonomous Agents in Unforeseen Situations -- Towards Scalable Multi-Robot Systems by Partitioning the Task Domain -- Effectiveness of brush operational parameters for robotic debris removal -- Automatic, Vision-Based Tool Changing Solution for Dexterous Teleoperation Robots in a Nuclear Glovebox.

The volume LNAI 13546 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, TAROS 2022, held in Culham, UK, in September 2022. The 14 full papers and 10 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. Organized in the topical sections "Algorithms" and "Systems", they discuss significant findings and advances in the following areas: Robotic Grippers and Manipulation; Soft Robotics, Sensing and Mobile Robots; Robotic Learning, Mapping and Planning; Robotic Systems and Applications.