"The Robotics Society of Japan 2023 Advanced Robotics Best Paper Award" is presented to Akira Fukuhara, Megu Gunji and Yoichi Masuda for the paper entitled "Comparative anatomy of quadruped robots and animals: a review" published in Advanced Robotics, the International Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan, Vol36, No.13, pp.612-630, 2021.