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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB 2024, held in Irvine, CA, USA, during September 9–12, 2024. The 26 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Bio-Inspired Navigation; Biomimetic Robots; Collective Behavior; Evolutionary Approaches to Adaptive Behavior; Motor Learning and Problem Solving and Decision-Making.