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by Corey Plover

ANSWER: OSCAR ROBOT IS MADE

 

The answers from this round are:

PuzzleRobotAnswer
Need to Take Someone Out?TerminatorCARBURETOR
New and ImprovedLt Commander DataREFORMATIONISTS
Whodunit?Battle DroidsFATHER DAMIEN
Sharp SensesHedonismbotWEDGE ISSUES
Queasy ReactionLance BishopPEPTO-BISMOL
The FallenTransformersCROSS COUNTRY
Mystery Hunt Puzzle 3000CambotCARBON
4=2Cylon CenturionsCIRCUS OF HORRORS
A Good Clean FightRosie the MaidROVERT GARCIA

Each answer is the same length as the name of the robot for its puzzle, and as per the flavor text it has "a lot of correspondence". Specifically, each answer has four letters the same in the same positions as its robot name

RobotAnswer
TERMINATORCARBURETOR
LT COMMANDER DATAREFORMATIONISTS
BATTLE DROIDSFATHER DAMIEN
HEDONISMBOTWEDGE ISSUES
LANCE BISHOPPEPTO-BISMOL
TRANSFORMERSCROSS COUNTRY
CAMBOTCARBON
CYLON CENTURIONSCIRCUS OF HORRORS
ROSIE THE MAIDROBERT GARCIA

When each puzzle is solved, its corresponding robot image on the round page is replaced with an animated one showing four lights in the corners of the circuitry lighting up in sequence. These represent the order in which the shared letters need to be placed around that image. For example:


The images can then be arranged into a 3x3 square so that corners have the same letter and this spells the answer OSCAR ROBOT IS MADE:


Upon completing this meta, the following link to supplementary information is revealed on the index page:

A complete listing of the Oscarbot winners can be found here.