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ahecht
04-29-2004, 11:37 AM
According to http://www.usfirst.org/robotics/robovation/, a company called Robotica, Ltd. owns the trademark EduBot, and therefore we are asked to refrain from using the name EDUBOT in relation to FIRST programs or competitions. Instead, we are to call it FIRST Robovation.
aaronbr28040
04-29-2004, 12:08 PM
No more sending EduBot off with a wireless camera and telling it "God speed EduBot". Now I guess it will have to be god speed robovation. It will be hard to get robovation stuck in my head rather than edubot.
-Aaron
Cory
04-29-2004, 12:25 PM
I think that just like almost everyone calls the Championship Nationals, everyone will continue to call the "Robovation" the EDUbot.

$0.02

Cory
Greg Ross
04-29-2004, 02:16 PM
I think that just like almost everyone calls the Championship Nationals, everyone will continue to call the "Robovation" the EDUbot.
Just be careful if you chose to do so. You may end up with Robotica Ltd. lawyers coming after you, lawsuit in hand. ;)
Mark McLeod
04-29-2004, 03:29 PM
Just be careful if you chose to do so. You may end up with Robotica Ltd. lawyers coming after you, lawsuit in hand. ;)
Please, not the lawyers thread again!;)
Barry Bonzack
04-29-2004, 03:41 PM
Suppose there is no chance of getting Robotica to help sponsor FIRST, huh?
headphred
04-29-2004, 03:42 PM
Okay, so the name changes to stay legal. Is there more to it than a name change? Is there a Robovation competition coming? Is there more than meets the eye in this change? A new class of competition? The web site at InnovationFirst is not using this name yet.
Pin Man
04-29-2004, 04:59 PM
I don't like that name change... I don't know... EDUBot just rolls off the tongue whereas Robovation I don't know... It just not the same... I'll probably still refer to it as EDUbot... I CAN'T WAIT TILL THE COMPETITIONS AND THE GAME THIS YEAR!!!
SilverStar
04-29-2004, 06:45 PM
Hmmm...

Is Robovation the name of the FIRST Program - or is it the noun officially used to call the robot itself?
Mike Schroeder
04-29-2004, 08:56 PM
I thought it was alway called the EDURobotics kit anyway.....
shyra1353
04-29-2004, 09:05 PM
In Canada, because of the Canadian Kickoff, it is called the BetaBot so we have the BetaBot competition ... personally i like BetaBot better than Robovation ...
Greg Ross
04-29-2004, 09:09 PM
In Canada, because of the Canadian Kickoff, it is called the BetaBot so we have the BetaBot competition ... personally i like BetaBot better than Robovation ...
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