Announcing the 2021 Best Paper Award and Honorable Mention

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Together with the Editorial Board of the Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics (JMR), I am pleased to announce the winner of the journal's 2021 Best Paper Award:P. Reinier Kuppens, Miguel A. Bessa, Just L. Herder, and Jonathan B. Hopkins, 2021, “Compliant Mechanisms That Use Static Balancing to Achieve Dramatically Different States of Stiffness,” ASME J. Mech. Robot., 13(2), p. 021010. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4049438The 2021 Best Paper Award is given to the paper recognized by the Editor and Editorial Board for its outstanding contribution to the field of mechanisms and robotics published by JMR in 2021. The prize includes a wall plaque for each author and will be announced in the journal, on JMR's companion website,1 and through the journal's online social media channels.