This book of the SPAR series contains 40 scientific articles presented at the 17th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems. The conference was held October 27–30, 2024, on Roosevelt Island in New York City. This book covers a broad scope of topics within robotics, with a focus on algorithms and engineering for distributed systems of robots. Specific topics include resource-constrained robots, mobile sensor networks, unmanned aerial vehicles, underwater robots, multi-agent systems, planning algorithms, modular robots, swarm robotics, foundation models, and machine learning for distributed autonomous robotic systems.