The International Conference of Bionic Engineering (ICBE) is the premier meeting for those working on bionic engineering. It brings together researchers and developers, both academic and industrial, from around the world to share their research achievements and explore research collaborations in the areas of bionic engineering. The first and second conferences were held in Changchun in 2006 and 2008. The third one, at which the International Society of Bionic Engineering (ISBE) was established, was held in Zhuhai in 2010. The fourth conference was sponsored by Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (China) and held in Nanjing in 2013. The fifth conference (ICBE2016) is going to continue the tradition of promoting collaborations among multiple areas. We especially wish to appeal to industrial applications of bionics and biomimetics.