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Round four polls close Wednesday, March 27, at 9 a.m. Cast your votes in the penultimate matchup!
By Suzanne LaBarre Posted 03.26.2013 at 10:30 am 1 Comment

Land robots vs. flying drones, round 4
Land robots vs. flying drones, round 4 Katie Peek

Welcome to round four of the world's nerdiest bracket! To recap: we've compiled a list of some of the strongest, fastest, and strangest landbots and sky drones around. Your job: vote for your favorites.

We're down to the penultimate matchup. If you need a quick guide to what's what, go here.

Polls close Wednesday, March 27, at 9 a.m. Check back later that day for the winners and the final round's matchup, which will determine the greatest land robot/ flying drone in all the internet. Will it be DARPA's BigDog? The fearsome X-47B? The clawed "Eagle" drone? Or Petman, the bipedal gym rat? Only vote once per poll in each matchup, please. And play nice in the comments. Or don't.

Ready? Go!


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03/26/13 at 1:45 pm

You guys put this back at the top because it was flopping big? It's Still flopping. Nobody cares about drone stats. Even in the biggest bracket filling month of the year! I could write an app that would give you statistical data on how Popsci readers will respond to your articles based on past POPSCI article responses...but you will have to pay me for it. As a rule, brackets never do well on Social media targets unless the event is so big (sports/elections) that brackets are modeled already and available to view. Most bracket fillers like to start from a base bracket model, not from scratch. If money is involved then its a better waste of time, but for it to be big money it would have to be a widely publicized matchup. No one is talking about the big "Popsci Drone Matchup" around the water cooler at work! I guarantee you if you made a bracket on predatory insects it, would do slightly better than this bracket but, would still flop.

POPSCI: March madness = brackets = a bracket phenomenon = readers are likely to fill out brackets on anything. Not!! LOL! We got to research the drones, which most are still in development. Then we have to research maneuverability, weapons capabilities, types of terrain, etc... WORK!! Battle-Bots was never a hit TV show and it required less from the viewer than this.

Try: "Drones will time travel in the future" (Money!)
Try: "Will drones be able to survive a blackhole and return information?" (Money!)
Try: "Drones that follow you around and take notes, warn you of danger, identify people you don't want to talk to and even remind you of business appointments." (Money!)

Can I be an editor for a day please? Just trying to help. :)

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