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This book is a collection of 24 papers selected by an international program committee for presentation at the 8th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS), held in July 2006 in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota, in the United States. DARS 2006 is an opportunity for leading researchers in the field to present and discuss novel theoretical results, and the papers herein report state-of-the-art research advances in the field of distributed autonomous robotics. What makes this book distinctive is the emphasis on using multiple robots and on making them autonomous as opposed to being teleoperated. Novel algorithms, system architectures, technologies, and numerous applications to be presented and discussed during the symposium are covered in this volume.