Article: Build a bot: readers are invited to submit designs for the Build A Bot Contest. If your design is selected, Product Design and Development will build the robot and send you to see it compete in a BattleBots competition. (Real-World Engineering).

You now have the chance to inflict massive damage on today's leading BattleBots.

Product Design and Development is sponsoring a contest for readers that will allow them to design the ultimate robotic tool of destruction for the BattleBots arena. The magazine will select the design most likely to wreak havoc and then build it for next spring's competition.

BattleBots is a rockum-sockum robot competition that has taken hold of both the engineering and non-engineering public. It first hit the scene about a dozen years ago but gained in popularity when Comedy Central started televising the matches on Tuesday nights. The competition blends engineering, ...

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