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So the build season is almost over, and the robots should be fully assembled and running (in a perfect world). Has your team named your robot yet?
Team 1259 decided on ours tonight. O.D.O.R. standing for Over Dosed On Robotics. I know kinda weird but... you only get one robot a year so make it count right! Good luck the rest of the season.
-Modeish
Bharat Nain
18-02-2005, 23:11
We're too lazy to name it. You guys can do that for us.
Ours has no name...officially, we call it Hurrican Bacon (after Mrs. Bacon, our coach), we even told the newspaper that was the name...she wasn't exactly "thrilled".
TLonghorns0593
18-02-2005, 23:26
Our robot is always called TOBOR this year it is TOBOR 8. The 1st year our team was around it was THOR but when we changed schools we changed the robot name.
Michael Corsetto
18-02-2005, 23:30
We were supposed to have had one by last friday. Oh well, mabye we'll just use one of MOE's names (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pictures.php?s=&action=single&picid=9408&direction=DESC&sort=date&perrow=5&trows=5&quiet=Verbose). :rolleyes:
looneylin
18-02-2005, 23:43
Our's is Fawkes!!!! You know, from Harry Potter, or the guy who tried to burn down parliament... both are pyro enough for us :D
Arefin Bari
18-02-2005, 23:47
We're too lazy to name it. You guys can do that for us.
Killahtron :)
ours is named kadunkadunk :D
Beth Sweet
19-02-2005, 00:13
Team 1504's robot this year is named "Biggie" to fit with our "Go big or go home" motto!
Sachiel7
19-02-2005, 00:23
Following traditional "Raptar"-ish theme, we've named ours "Kiryu" (pronounced "key-eww") after the Mechagodzilla Unit in the Godzilla X movies. Look for Kiryu tomorrow at DC, he's holding up well so far!
JamesCH95
19-02-2005, 00:25
We always name our robots after famous scientists or engineers. This year the bot is Thomas Edison, or just Eddie. Last year was Leonardo Da Vinci.
M. Hicken
19-02-2005, 00:46
ours used to be called C4 for some reason. Now its Larry 1.0 because Larry was our old mentor, his Natn'l Gaurd unit went active.
BRAVESaj25bd8
19-02-2005, 00:46
We named ours Olive. Well, we were in a meeting and somebody suggested it and nobody had anything better so... Olive it is! Olive and I have a good relationship. It's short term as of now but I think this one could really blossom into something. The way she moves so gracefully across the field. I think I might just ask her what she's doing friday night.
NoodleKnight
19-02-2005, 00:47
Cattus Petasatus - Latin for: "Cat in the hat"
Nate Edwards
19-02-2005, 00:51
Our robots name is CRICK or Francis Crick, Our team name is WATSON so our theme is DNA WATSON & Crick were the people that discovered DNA. Our motto fits in with that Defying New Altitudes or Discovering New Accomplishments. We also thought it would be good to have our robot named in honor of Francis Crick's Death this past year.
Nate Edwards
RoboCat05
19-02-2005, 01:05
Our team, 399, named our robot Mr. Clean. We named it after one of our students, his nickname is mr clean, that was diagnosed with leukemia last summer and got a bone marrow transplant. So it was kind of something for him.
Alex Cormier
19-02-2005, 02:12
tetra-dactyl
Ali Ahmed
19-02-2005, 03:55
Human
Operated
Mechanically
Engineered
Robot
We're too lazy to name it. You guys can do that for us.
The REALLY REALLY Evil Machine.
Coachmac
19-02-2005, 09:05
We opened up the naming of the robot to the student body. I had the students submit entries and what not. After a while, the team took all the entries and decided on one. ALICE. I think it has something to do with Alice in Wonderland. They also decided to call the team, THE LOOSE NUTS. :)
I think ours is named "Watch out it's an elephant!"
NickNielsen
19-02-2005, 10:35
We're leaning towards Elliot...
jessjank.
19-02-2005, 10:38
X Factor
Felipe Reis
19-02-2005, 10:54
Our is CRtec-2 (Curumin Tech 2)....
macurtis
19-02-2005, 11:08
I'm not sure if this is official yet, but one day I opened my big, Latin student mouth and suggested that we name our robot Apollo, because he's the Roman/Greek god of science and the arts, and Holland High, we're a pretty artsy school, so I thought it was a good reflection of the school. Unfortunately, one of the sponsoring teachers took me too seriously and said that when Apollo #13 was built we'd name it Apollo 13. :ahh::eek:
Not what I had originally intended. :(
Sakura141
19-02-2005, 11:27
At West Ottawa in Holland, Michigan it's impossible to get my team to agree to a name other than Wo-Bot *sweatdrop* But I give it a cool name every year ^.^ I'm the only one who uses it though... :)
Eria4044
19-02-2005, 11:35
Yeah...PROTEGE2 (Yep, it's supposed to be all capitals; it's an acronym.). But some people don't like the lack of originality (myself included). Here's the great debate at our website: http://railerobotics.proboards42.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&num=1105983141
Ryo_Himura
19-02-2005, 11:44
Our team named our robot Excalibur to fit our team name the Robo Knights. It also goes along with our robot last year The Black Knight.
dubious elise
19-02-2005, 13:49
"Black Widow" ...once you see the final robot, you'll understand why
(and no, its not because the wires for our electronics are in a "web" like the first pictures we posted! http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pictures.php?s=&action=single&picid=9250&direction=ASC&sort=date&perrow=5&trows=10&quiet=Verbose)
mtndewnarc
19-02-2005, 14:11
Ours robot (Team 404) is named Victoria.
This year, we've named our robot Jimpulse.
It is spoofing off of our physics teacher's term "Pmomentum"
And our shirt has one of the equations for impulse on it, J=(delta)P
So the build season is almost over, and the robots should be fully assembled and running (in a perfect world). Has your team named your robot yet?
Team 1259 decided on ours tonight. O.D.O.R. standing for Over Dosed On Robotics. I know kinda weird but... you only get one robot a year so make it count right! Good luck the rest of the season.
-Modeish not yet but im voting for pest machine
Winged Wonder
19-02-2005, 19:14
this year, its Roccobot 2k5. last year, it was Roccobot 2k4. next year, it will be Roccobot 2k6. :) you get the point.
the "Roc" stands for Rockledge High, and the "co" stands for Cocoa Beach High, and the "bot" part shouldnt need an explaination... neither should the "2k5" part. :p
its tradition... it will never change. :)
yes, Roccobot is the name of our robot not the name of our team.
Bcahn836
19-02-2005, 19:20
Team 836 The Robobees have yet to name our 4th robot.
1.Bee Bot
2. B.O.B (battery operated bee)
3. Spirit
Some possibilites for the 4th are
B.O.B II
B
Gotcha
Barry Bonzack
19-02-2005, 20:42
Ours is Pa-10. If you don't know why, go ask MA (team 1402).
Ashley Weed
19-02-2005, 20:54
Our robots name is always Chuck, however we have a sub-name or sub-theme to denote the years to distinguish the Chucks. 2005 shall be dubbed "Chuck VII Reborn".
nehalita
19-02-2005, 21:12
ours is sir-staX-alot and the evil crossbow of doom.
it's crossbow for a reason (http://community.webshots.com/photo/277633304/277638313KFdBZa)
it's my husband =)
Pi Is Exactly 3
19-02-2005, 21:17
Following our tradition (of one year) of using names of Titans (last year our robot was named Atlas), we have decided to name our robot Themis. Themis is the goddess of order and justice as well as balance (we figured we'd need her help to keep us from tipping over). She's depicted as the blindfolded woman holding scales that you can find outside of the Supreme Court.
Sticking with our tradition, this is our sixth year so our bot is named Sparky 6.0. Look for us at VCU and Championship in Atlanta.
tiffany34990
19-02-2005, 21:55
we haven't named it yet. we are still thinking. we probably will try to do that on monday or thursday some point in time before ucf. our bot has personality that's for sure just needs a name to complete it that's for sure.
george56
19-02-2005, 22:36
i believe our robot is called ED 6.0
ED stands for Epsilon Delta
Rick TYler
19-02-2005, 22:39
It didn't have a name until today's practice tournament in Bellevue. Based on comments from other teams, our 2005 entry is now known as "Wooden Thunder."
I can't imagine why...
Rabbit222
19-02-2005, 22:45
Our robot is named "The Claw" as always. I like it anyway. It's got a nice ring to it.
Alex Minot
19-02-2005, 22:46
scorpion----because we are the pioneers and they probably encountered scorpions
sojouner06
19-02-2005, 23:03
some of you may already know this but...THE PREDATOR
ductape_man
19-02-2005, 23:29
We have this giant harpoon thing on our bot, so were thinking about Ahab(you know, the crazy dude from moby $@#$@#$@#$@#...), but its nt final
Squeje250
20-02-2005, 01:05
As Modish said our robots name is ODOR. for Over Dose On Robotics. :D
Our robot is named "I, Roybot" - inspired partly due to the book, the song (oh yeah!), the movie, and our High School name and town which is called Roy. Can't really say the vacuum cleaner had much to do with it though. Our team name is Roybotics - so it all just kinda fit together.
actual name is ICE, but unoffical name is Zip Tie the Robot, for unknown reasons <.< >.>
ok, ok, because when we were starting, it was all put together with zip ties, lol......
TheMuffinMan
20-02-2005, 03:05
SARTANYAC
Super Awesome Robot That Always Needs Your Aluminum Cans
he likes recycling, his best friend is Captain Planet
Our team really hasnt decided on a name, but we all have seriosuly considered GLAGH after a teacher that passed away this year at our school.
He always wrote it on the board before a test....
Good Luck And Good Hunting
-NMR
silliewillie
20-02-2005, 09:03
I think ours is "Tina"
We decided to name robot High Maintenance. A truly fitting name for one of Team 617's robots:)
IMDWalrus
20-02-2005, 13:13
Our robot is Tarkus, named after the world's niftiest steel armadillo...
http://klimperei.free.fr/else/fav/tarkus.gif
Wacko324
20-02-2005, 13:25
The Legacy of Vertigo continues, so 1495's robot's name is Vertigo II or V2 for short.
909s robot is "Nikko" this year...supposedly the leader of the winged monkeys from the Wizard of Oz. We were OzBot last year.
Iain McLeod
20-02-2005, 13:49
Our project code name is Mantis II... I don't know what we're actually going to name it....
The last name I can remember is "Lou's girlfriend" (long story) from about three years ago.
Team 1598 named ours Talon to kind of go along with our school mascot. I dont really mind cause it looks really cool on the side of the robot. :D
MChapman
21-02-2005, 10:42
Hey everyone, this is Melanie from Aces High 176, just registered on here.
Well we named our robot P.G.B.I.F. (probably gonna burst into flames) it's a name we've had for awhile but has never gotten picked till now. so we hope P.G.B.I.F. will be good to us this year an not burst into flames..haha
well nice seeing the website..looks good..catcha later.
danield710
21-02-2005, 10:44
every year except for 2001, our robot has had a different name, in 2002 it was black beauty (it was covered in black lexan), 2003 it was jawz, 2004 we named it rio and this year we have not figured out a name for the bot
vic burg
21-02-2005, 10:53
im not quite sure whether we have named our robot yet.... their probably decided right now.... ill find out tonight thats for sure!!!!
JVGazeley
21-02-2005, 12:35
We've been arguing it out for 4 weeks... Currently we're split into 2 camps:
The main camp is currently gunning for "Alter Ericius ut est Furtim" which translates from Latin to English as the "Second Hedgehog Which is Stealthy", a tip of the hat to Stealth Hedgehog, which was our robot a couple of years ago.
The other camp wants a reference to united in the name, which is currently being bashed down due to it being led by Manchester United and Cambridge United fans.
psych0gambit
21-02-2005, 21:17
eh, do we even have a name??? not sure... :confused:
Yan Wang
22-02-2005, 14:40
Last year, it was The Red Tulip.
This year, it's The Red Mantis.
mizscience
22-02-2005, 21:38
divine intervention. b/c that's what it will need to operate the way it's meant to, lol. :]
today, we had a team meeting while waiting for the fed-ex guy to show up. after several stupid sleep-deprived suggestions (about 10 people spent the night finishing the robot), we decided to name it "Kara," our engineer's daughter's name. i think she's about four years old. She hangs out with our team and was at the lab yesterday and today.
Our robot's name is 'Crossbow'. The arm kinda looks like it and we were kinda looking for something to tie into our Ammoknights feel.
www.ammoknights.com/crossbow.jpg (http://www.ammoknights.com/crossbow.jpg)
neilsonster
23-02-2005, 00:47
Ours shall be called the "Sad Walrus" because they tried to make some Sabre jaws for the front but in my opinion it looks like a sad walrus instead... anyways it says Sad Walrus all over the inside of the crate so there isn't any other name! Buahaha!
Manavapor
23-02-2005, 02:26
well i missed the day we voted for the robot and i really didnt like the outcome but w/e. we, i mean they, decided to call the robot S.O.S., which is usually a distress call. But for this it stands for son of shazbot, one of our earlier robots. I just have a feeling it is going to haunt us during the competition.
JVGazeley
23-02-2005, 05:36
The main camp is currently gunning for "Alter Ericius ut est Furtim" which translates from Latin to English as the "Second Hedgehog Which is Stealthy", a tip of the hat to Stealth Hedgehog, which was our robot a couple of years ago.
We now seem to be going for "Eric", short for "Ericius", which translates from Latin as "Hedgehog". No one has objected to it... yet.
or Eric the Hedgehog even
JVGazeley
23-02-2005, 08:37
Well yes, Denman, that is implied by the translation... Eric the Hedgehog is more of an affectionate term, but officially it looks like being Ericius...
If you follow? If you don't, ask Raven.
DuelMasterP
23-02-2005, 08:39
Do we get to sing various sonic themes?
How about "This Machine"
JVGazeley
23-02-2005, 08:41
I don't think that's part of our plans right now DMP...
Steve Yasick
23-02-2005, 10:39
B.O.B. (Build on Brains)
BOB is BOB is BOB......
Stu Bloom
23-02-2005, 11:05
Well the school's mascot is the Red Devil. The team name is the RoboDevils. So what else could we call a beast like this (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pictures.php?s=&action=single&picid=9985) but the "Devils' Tower" !
spyhunterk19
25-02-2005, 00:12
El Chupacabra!
bombadier337
25-02-2005, 09:11
Ours is called S.A.R.T.A.N.Y.A.C. 3000. We were going for the most obnoxious acronym we could think of, and it stands for Super Awesome Robot That Always Needs Your Aluminum Cans. We named it this because our mind fundraiser was a recycling drive so we decided to use a can theme throughout. We tacked on the 3000 because it sounds so cool (and cliched!).
mad_cloversc
26-02-2005, 13:25
We named ours Scorpius, it reminded us of a scorpion, then we changed the frame to reduce weight and now it looks like a VW bug.
HAIGHTER
26-02-2005, 15:29
We had a debate over our robots name, so we came up with two names. One name is Echotha, which is the name of the Cherokee Indian Nation, because part of our arm looks like a arrowhead and alot of our team members have Cherokee Indian in them. the other name is Barbra III, which is simple and sweet. :D
chinckley
02-03-2005, 22:08
This year our robot is Interface.
Last year we were Chaos. Not a bad name for a rookie team.
macurtis
03-03-2005, 18:35
At West Ottawa in Holland, Michigan it's impossible to get my team to agree to a name other than Wo-Bot *sweatdrop* But I give it a cool name every year ^.^ I'm the only one who uses it though... :)
Yeah well, the past two years at HHS we've been operating on unofficial names. My freshman year the robot, unofficially was named Zeus, last year it was unoffically named Orion, and fortunately, they didn't listen to me and my lame Apollo idea and we're thinking of either calling it VERN 2.0 or the Wonkavator (long story there). :)
StephLee
03-03-2005, 19:22
Ours is Meshach, after Meshach Browning, the "famous Garrett County hunter". We're a rural county.
Sgraff_SRHS06
03-03-2005, 19:39
Ours is Deeper Thought, not too much different than last year's name. We usually decide on a name before we even building the robot (where got some novel suggestions such as "Cupcake" or "#######").
IndianChieftain
04-03-2005, 16:46
Hansen Hummer^2 or H^3.
After Rick Hansen (our school) and General Motor's Hummer 2 (our sponsor)
OURS 1559 IS SHADOW CLAW!!! BUT I WANTED TO NAME IT LUCIFER LOL
Simon Strauss
06-03-2005, 13:54
ours is Badunkadunk. its named after the sound the 4 train (which most people take to school) makes when it rides along the uneven tracks in the bronx.
We named ours Huh? since that was the response the mentors got every time we asked the students what we should name it.
We named ours Huh? since that was the response the mentors got every time we asked the students what we should name it.
That would be a great pairing with our bot X-WhAAAt!!! Anybody name their bot Who, Where or Why?
Big_Bad_Bob1989
06-03-2005, 16:12
Im from Team 319 and his name is Bob
zdeswarte
07-03-2005, 14:57
Yeah my team just named ours. "Agora Tracer IV"- it has layers upon layers of meaning. Two of the main problems we had in this season were funding and programming. Agora relates to these two problems through its definitions: both the programming language and the currency. Our bot commemorates fixing both of them and serves as a monument to the future teams to always keep on trying like our team did. IV was put on there because its my lucky number and one of our team members is a IV.
Suprised Paul hasn't chimed in on this yet...
The ThunderChickens have named our '05 bot "Thor" due to it's butt-whomping "hammer", and its "Thundery-ness" ... yeah
bradleym1559
07-03-2005, 17:06
THE SHADOW CLAW
Team Roboto 447
Dr. J
"Dr J... scoring at will!" - VCU announcer :p
Mark Pettit
07-03-2005, 17:22
We have a tradition of using obscure movie quotes to name our robot.
The names do err on the side of being uncouth if you know where they came from, but I can live with that.
Last year, the name was Uncomfortable Hunk of Metal (http://faculty.brophyprep.org/robotics/images/2004/UHOMIISpin.gif).
This year, it is Charlie Foxtrot (http://faculty.brophyprep.org/robotics/images/2005/robot.jpg).
Go Dukes!
Mark Pettit
07-03-2005, 17:24
Team Roboto 447
Dr. J
"Dr J... scoring at will!" - VCU announcer :p
I saw Dr. J on the Webcast and I would love to show my team some pictures of it, but you guys have yet to post any.
It is so much like a design our team almost built and it works so nicely that I'd love to see pics if you can direct me to them.
Thanks in advance!
We named are newest team member Arm N Ra The Ra Venger.
See Ya At Nationals
Ours is Fast Eddie III, although right now he's Fat Eddie III due to weight issues, but that'll be sorted out! (Hopefully :S)
krunch79prez
08-03-2005, 17:43
we went boring for the 7th year in a row and we are Captain Krunch VII
shadow clawww!!! with the hand :) story is long, mentors didn't like it, but boy did it stick! speaking of which one of our mentors is getting 'shadow claw' tattooed on his stomach!
what one does!
ours is Badunkadunk. its named after the sound the 4 train (which most people take to school) makes when it rides along the uneven tracks in the bronx.
ha! thats not all that badunkadunk means...
Simon Strauss
08-03-2005, 19:17
ha! thats not all that badunkadunk means...
yeah i know thats why i clarified where we got it from so the moderators wouldn't get mad at me again
Our robot is officially MILDREAD 4 (Our school is St. Mildreds) but every year it gets a different, unofficial name.
This year, it was decided at about 23:00 on Monday before ship date that it should be 'Big Bad Bessie.'
Which it is. Unofficially. But she's Bessie in our hearts.
Alex Pelan
08-03-2005, 21:03
Officially, our follow up to the Bobcat 2004 is...the Bobcat 2005 :p
But I decided we needed a more original name, so I've dubbed it "Gertrude." This is mostly on account of one of our engineers referring to our base as Gertrude while demonstrating a concept that I don't remember.
We eventually decided on Tetraphile although it was close becoming Puma (Red vs Blue Eisode #2).
Crash852
09-03-2005, 01:03
Our robot's name is officially Tyr because this god was one armed, like our robot this year.
Scott England
09-03-2005, 01:16
Our robot this year is named CopperHead, take a guess why
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pictures.php?action=single&picid=10294
and for bonus points, guess subject our head high school teacher's masters degree.
SizzelChest330
09-03-2005, 01:58
Ummm... I think we unofficially named our Robot "Pedro"
but if the mentors don't like it we just stick with "Beachbot"
Justin Montois
09-03-2005, 14:27
We named ours Big Bertha. Our robot is the biggest you can make it so we came up with Big Bertha.
http://team340.katenordland.com/albums/week7/latest_031.sized.jpg
We named ours Big Bertha. Our robot is the biggest you can make it so we came up with Big Bertha.
I thought you'd name it something like "thumper", due to its classic auton.
Peter Matteson
09-03-2005, 16:14
Officially, our follow up to the Bobcat 2004 is...the Bobcat 2005 :p
But I decided we needed a more original name, so I've dubbed it "Gertrude." This is mostly on account of one of our engineers referring to our base as Gertrude while demonstrating a concept that I don't remember.
I thought this year's internal name was "The Finger"
Like how we refered to last year's bot as "The Washing Machine"
2003 was "The Winnebago"
2002 was the "Minifridge"
2001 is the only one anybody actually calls the Bobcat for some reason. The practice bot that year was "Petunia"
We also have the "Hexorcist" from 96 I think.
All these refer to either what it looked like to us or in the case of this year a mechanism that we just latched on to.
LPaton716
09-03-2005, 16:48
This year we named our robot the Housywhere'sit. It's a play on last years name Housywhat'sit, though it doesn't have the same ring to it. We finally are off naming our robot Reggie. (We named our first robot Reggie after Region 1 and it stuck for three years.) It got fairly confusing especially when we brought two robots to an off season.
We like to incorporate word play that has a connection to our team into our Robot names. Any suggestions are welcome for next years robot.
We'll see you in Hartford:)
cprobotics
09-03-2005, 17:01
Working with a common theme within this years robotics competition, we decided to name our robot "Caution" (or as we like to call it, PMFH (Parking Metre From Hell).
http://www.cprobotics.com/Images/Graphics/Delphi_2.jpg :yikes:
Ummm... I think we unofficially named our Robot "Pedro"
but if the mentors don't like it we just stick with "Beachbot"
Nice try. We don't name the robot (even unofficially) until AFTER at least one competition, preferably the whole season, and then it gets some name or other like "Plecibo" or "Tank" (2001 and 2002). And where did this name "Pedro" come from?
our robot is named "Tetramajig". It was "Tetramajigger" but from a distance it looks somewhat like a racial slur.
when deciding on the name it wasn't a thingamajig but a tetramajig. It was late, we were sleep deprived.
last year it was "Black Mammoth"
1263
2004 Leadership in control award
Officially our robot is named The Bulldog 5, since this is our fifth year doing it. But unofficially our Robot is named HERCULES, mainly because we got a lot of help from an engineer that works at United Defense, and they have a tank with the perfect acronym: Heavy Equipment Recovery Combat Utility Lift and Evacuation System (HERCULES). I am going to see if we can get the named changed at the regional, because this year I want to break away from the generic name. For those of you going to the Silicon Valley regional watch out for out Bulldog Mascot suit :D
Brandon Holley
10-03-2005, 22:00
We havent named ours yet "unofficially"...technically its MORT v9 but we like to let ours earn its name while in battle..
Last years bot earned the title "Rhinobot"
Anthony Kesich
10-03-2005, 22:08
Officially, our robot is Mojo III since the guys that do the paperwork have no creativity.
One of our alums cam back about 4 weeks in to see our progress. Later that night he made a post on his xanga saying it should be called Mojo Lazarus since it would take Jesus to raise it from the dead. Looking at Sacto, that might mean we have a second comming on our hands. :p
-Tony K
Yeah, Purple Haze, our team colors are purple and gold, like our school
Edit: This was the 60000 post in the General Forum
~<-Bendr->~
13-03-2005, 08:27
We named our Bender Like the robot from futurama. It was either him or the blue m&m as our mascott.
No contest really ^_^
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