| Mr. | Muhammad Azher | Iqbal | Huazhong University of Science & Technology | China | Social Sciences | Research Excellence Award | popularscientist.com |
| Dr. | Obvious | Katsaura | University of the Witwatersrand | South Africa | Social Sciences | Research Excellence Award | popularscientist.com |
| Mr. | SHEKU AHMED TEJAN | KAMARA | Cyprus International University | Cyprus | Social Sciences | Research Excellence Award | popularscientist.com |
| Mr. | Caspar | Montgomery | University of Exeter; Onaya Science | United Kingdom | Social Sciences | Research Excellence Award | popularscientist.com |
| Dr. | Ikem Godspower | Ujene | University of Johannesburg | South Africa | Social Sciences | Research Excellence Award | popularscientist.com |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr. | DRINA | INTYASWATI | Universitas Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Jakarta | Indonesia | Social Sciences | Research Excellence Award | popularscientist.com |
| Mr. | 小东 | 马 | 上海外国语大学 | China | Social Sciences | Young Researcher Award | popularscientist.com |
| Mr. | Shubham | Jaiswal | Hiroshima University | Japan | Social Sciences | Global Impact in Research Award | popularscientist.com |
| Dr. | Hayden | Smith | University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States | United States | Social Sciences | Research Excellence Award | popularscientist.com |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr. | Fernando | Magalhães | Polytechnic Institute of Leiri | Portugal | Social Sciences | Research Excellence Award | popularscientist.com |
| Mr. | Felix | Owusu | University of Ghana | Ghana | Social Sciences | Innovative Research Award | popularscientist.com |
| Dr. | Nerkez | Opacin | University of Melbourne | Australia | Social Sciences | Research Excellence Award | popularscientist.com |
| Assist. Prof. Dr. | Alejandro | Osorio-Rauld | University of Alicante | Spain | Social Sciences | Research Excellence Award | popularscientist.com |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr. | Zhenli | Lu | Changshu Institute of Technolgy | China | Social Robotics | Outstanding Scientist Award | popularscientist.com |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr. | Lacrimioara | Grama | Technical University of Cluj-Napoca | Romania | Social Robotics | Best Researcher Award | popularscientist.com |
| Dr. | Yang | Yu | Jiangsu University | China | Robotics and Automation | Best Researcher Award | popularscientist.com |
| Mr. | Liu | Ziguo | Chongqing University | China | Robotics and Automation | Best Researcher Award | popularscientist.com |
| Dr. | mostafa | jalalnezhad | kharazmi university | Iran | Robotics and Automation | Best Researcher Award | popularscientist.com |
| Mr. | Chien-I | Chang | Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chiayi University | Taiwan | Robotics and Automation | Research Excellence Award | popularscientist.com |
| Dr. | Peng | Bo | Tsinghua University | China | Robotics and Automation | Excellence in Scientific Innovation Award | popularscientist.com |