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Happy March Madness! Love, us. [UPDATE: Polls for round one close Friday, March 22, at 9 a.m.]
By Suzanne LaBarre Posted 03.21.2013 at 9:00 am 2 Comments

March Madness, Popular Science-style
March Madness, Popular Science-style Katie Peek

Welcome to the Popular Science March Madness bracket! We don’t know much about sports--is that where you toss around a ball for a few years then strap on an orange vest and help kids across sidewalks?--but we felt left out watching our friends have all the fun. So we decided to build our own bracket out of something we do know a bit about: robots and drones. Below you’ll find 16 of the strongest, fastest, and strangest land robots, and 16 of the strongest, fastest, and strangest flying drones. Your job: vote for your favorites. Big Dog or Cheetah? X47-B or the DJI Phantom? If you need a quick guide to what's what, go here.

Check back in tomorrow for the winners and the next round's matchups. We'll keep doing this until we've determined the greatest land robot/flying drone in all the internet. Only vote once per poll in each matchup, please. And play nice in the comments. Or don't.

Ready? Go!









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D13
03/21/13 at 9:06 am

I dont want to win but did anyone see "Mars", I think it was called, with Val Kylmer? "AMY", AIMEE"? Anyways, land based robot with sattelite drones built in for recon. I think thats where it should be going.

"Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth. There is no spoon."

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NaCl
03/22/13 at 6:29 pm

@D13 was that the helicopter dog? It could hunt and HUNT! I did like that dog, that's the only thing I remember from that movie.

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