The 4-volume set LNAI 13013 - 13016 constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2021, which took place in Yantai, China, during October 22-25, 2021.
The 299 papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 386 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Robotics dexterous manipulation, sensors, actuators, and controllers for soft and hybrid robots, cable-driven parallel robot, human-centered wearable robotics, hybrid system modeling and human-machine interface, robot manipulation skills learning, micro_nano materials, devices, and systems for biomedical applications, actuating, sensing, control, and instrumentation for ultra-precision engineering, human-robot collaboration, robotic machining, medical robot, machine intelligence for human motion analytics, human-robot interaction for service robots, novel mechanisms, robots and applications, space robot and on-orbit service, neural learning enhanced motion planning and control for human robot interaction, medical engineering.