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.