The RoboSoft 2023 awards are given to outstanding soft roboticists under the following categories:

• Best Paper Award (Sponsored by Science Robotics)
• Best Student Paper Award (Sponsored by MDPI)
• Best Presentation Award
• Best Poster Award
• Best Video Award (Sponsored by IEEE-RAS Soft Robotics TC)
• Best Locomotion Award [RoboSoft 2023 Competition]
• Best Manipulation Award [RoboSoft 2023 Competition]

For each category, three finalists are acknowledged with certificates and the final winner will receive a cash honorarium, thanks to the RoboSoft 2023 organizing committee and our sponsors.

We would like to thank the Awards and Competition Committees for their work:

• Koichi Suzumori, Awards Chair
• Cecilia Laschi, Awards Chair
• Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio, Member
• Jonathan Rossiter, Member
• Shingo Maeda, Member
• Zhexin Xie, Assistant
• Benjamin Ang, Assistant
• Marcello Calisti, Competition Chair
• Albert Causo, Competition Chair