Does your teams robot have an offical name? [Archive]

lukevanoort

10-02-2008, 21:46

Our robot is named Occam VIII: Yottabott. We name every one of our robots Occam <number> starting with Occam 1 back in 2001. The name is in honor of William of Ockham and his Razor ('simplest solution is the best'). Then, our robots get a yearly surname; last year's surname was 'Deadline,' for example. The Yottabott surname is play on words that is only really funny to me (its pretty cheesy). Yotta happens to be the SI prefix for 1000^8 (10^24), and comes from the Greek word 'okto,' meaning eight. So, since it is our eighth robot, Yottabott seemed fitting.

To pick names, we usually just have a meeting where anyone can propose ideas and we have a vote for which one we like the most. Some names are nixed before going to vote for various reasons... 'Psychedelic Attack' is an example of one thrown out this year, due to drug-related connotations. This year, we also paired up team mottos with robot names and voted on them as a single unit. The runner up to Yottabott w/ the motto "Yotta brains, yotta brawn, notta yotta time' was The Razor (an occams razor reference) with the somewhat tounge-in-cheek motto "Raze the Bar" (I guess it is only funny if you are familiar with the 2004 game, but we thought it was humorous).

In conversation we usually don't use the surnames. We just use the numbers (which handily coincide with the year of the competition) and say something like 'Hey is 3 ready for a demo or should we get 6?"

akash155

10-02-2008, 21:47

We decided on the name Talon as a team. At first I thought it was sorta generic but after seeing all of the innovative and interesting things my team has managed to do with it, I am very proud of the name

IndySam

10-02-2008, 21:47

Two years ago it was Wazoo (because we had balls comming out of our Wazoo)

Last year it was Randy, named after our long serving and dedicated team sponsor.

We still refer to these robots by their names.

Couple of ideas floating around for this years robot. None are final yet.

Billfred

10-02-2008, 21:53

1618 has only named its robots since I joined the team last year, and even then it only really got underway late in the build period. The working title for last year's robot was "What Robot?", but the name was quickly changed to Uppercut at lunch on Thursday at Palmetto, for reasons painfully obvious to my chin.

The two robots the team built before my arrival are nameless; we usually refer to them as "the oh-five robot" (or what's left of it--not much) and "the oh-six robot" (which is still physically assembled, but hasn't been driven once in almost two years to my knowledge).

BigJ

10-02-2008, 21:58

Super Uper Mark IV

(Last year's Mark III was dubbed "The Sky Crane" by the announcer at Buckeye last year :P)

armoredvehicle

10-02-2008, 21:58

We have come up with a name, and it is ...

"Fetish": Two years ago at a pre-season scrimmage our teacher decided to call our robot fetish. So now we have decided to name our robot "Fetish", in honor of our teacher.

Qbranch

10-02-2008, 21:58

Ours is always named either the Kil-A-Byte or Kil-A-Bot. Haven't decided which this year.

Although, at the 2006 debut of our autonomous scripting system dubbed RALFF (robot autonomous language for first) many people had the misconception that our robot was, in fact, named Ralph since every autonomous period our team cheered for ralff. Really rocked my socks that our team was cheering for a few Kb of code... :]

-q

Joe J.

10-02-2008, 22:07

Lightning Robotics 2008 robot is named Thor (http://lightningrobotics.com/gallery/post/view/1740?search=2008).
He is preceded by
Boris (http://lightningrobotics.com/gallery/post/view/1245?search=2007)
Icarus (http://lightningrobotics.com/gallery/post/view/343?search=2006%20icarus)
Carlson X (http://lightningrobotics.com/gallery/post/view/1377?search=2005%20Relay_For_Life%20CarlsonX)
Loki (http://lightningrobotics.com/gallery/post/view/767?search=2004)
Ziff 2.0 (http://lightningrobotics.com/gallery/post/view/1643?search=2003)
Ziff (http://lightningrobotics.com/gallery/post/view/1019?search=2002)
Johnny 5 (http://lightningrobotics.com/gallery/post/view/1708?search=2001)
Zeus (http://lightningrobotics.com/gallery/post/view/1593?search=2000)
from 2007 to 2000 respectively.

We choose our robot names through popular vote of the team in either November or December

vhcook

10-02-2008, 22:08

We usually name our robot after someone associated with the American Revolution (loosely, anyway). If you get a team number like 1776, it's hard not to go with it.

The final vote hasn't happened yet this year, but it looks like the robot's going to be "Paul Rovere" (one if by lane divider, two if by side rail). Last year was Botsy Ross, and our rookie bot was Benjamin Franklinstein.

hipsterjr

10-02-2008, 22:08

Burnie (our team name is the Burning Magnetos):P

Spartan151

10-02-2008, 22:14

We (Team 2065) don't have an official name for it yet, but our five-man build team (including myself) have called it, for the time being, the M46 Predator, or Predator for short, 'cause it looks like a tank.

Libby K

10-02-2008, 22:20

The MidKnight Inventors' 2008 robot is named The Knight Rider.

The past two years, when we were Royal Knights Robotics, we had
2006-Sir Lance-a-Bot (Just for fun...)
2007-Optimus Prime (The ramps 'transformed' and rolled out)

galewind

10-02-2008, 22:32

We've named our robot for 2008 Apollo

Our past robots are as follows:

2007: Mercury Rising
2006: Silver Lightning
2005: The Messenger
2004: Quicksilver++
2003: Quicksilver

Mike Schreiber

10-02-2008, 22:36

Team RUSH has never officially named our robot, but last year we had a joke about it. It was called Mt. RUSHmore. As in mount our robot more. As for this year who knows.

Wolf

10-02-2008, 22:39

Team 145 is debating between the Pinball Lizard and Tommy (from Pinball Wizard, our theme).

thefro526

10-02-2008, 22:44

Our bot's name is Anomaly and has been since 02' so we just change the version every year. Right now our robot is Anomaly V 7.0

AdamHeard

10-02-2008, 23:07

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f327/X-Cats/2008%20Season/xtenderredballlogo.jpg

That was 973's name in 2005.... good choice...

973 has yet to pick a name for this year, but the current top 5 choices are;

ARMageddon
Armbidextrous
Tiger
Tiger Claw Massacre
Pumpkin Head

Alan Anderson

10-02-2008, 23:18

TechnoKats robots have always had an official name. Since I've been a part of the team, we've had KatsKlaw, Skyhook, Katapult (redubbed Katawheel after we replaced the ball shooter), and RackStar. So far as I know, nobody has yet suggested a name for our Overdrive robot.

bduddy

10-02-2008, 23:32

Our robot always ends up with a name in the event programs, but no one knows how it gets there... >_>

I think the team mentors/teachers essentially decide on ours. Maybe I should try to change that...

Herodotus

10-02-2008, 23:35

We've taken to naming our past three robots, and already have a name picked out for this one.

2005- Ice Pick
2006- Snow Blower
2007- Iceberg
2008- Avalanche

I'm sure you can see our team theme applied to the names :p

T3_1565

10-02-2008, 23:38

ours this year is named Twitch. based on how it asked first test run lol.

Last year she was Pinchy, cause of the claw. they are kinda random, but they are funny and cool

Viper37

11-02-2008, 00:04

1622 Spyder Robot Name: "For Sale"

That name has remained with us since our rookie year. :)

Chris Marra

11-02-2008, 00:40

You can see how good we are at naming by this list:

1995 - Unnamed
1996 - Hexorcist
1997 - Ring Wrangler
1998 - The Bobcat
1999 - The Bobcat
2000 - The Bobcat
2001 - The Bobcat 2001
2002 - The Bobcat 2002 (informally: The Mini-Fridge)
2003 - The Bobcat 2003
2004 - The Bobcat
2005 - The Bobcat
2006 - The Bobcat
2007 - The Ring Wrangler mk.XIII
2008 - Black Betty

As you can see, we have something of a 3-year cycle (it's actually aligned with our 3-year success cycle too...).

Corey Oostveen

11-02-2008, 01:11

Our name is simple and requires no voting. This year it is RDX

last years robot was RD9 or RDIX

RD Standing for Robo Dawgs 10 or X standing for the fact this is our 10th robot

bhsrobotics1671

11-02-2008, 01:24

doc IV: the blizzard
after Senior FIRST mentor and team founder, devin blizzard.

shhh, he doesnt know yet!

Boydean

11-02-2008, 02:59

For our first year's bot we named it Leeroy Jenkins or Leroy for short.

reflion

11-02-2008, 03:04

Our bot last year was the Rambot, since it was our first year. Due to its appearance, however, every single team I've met that knew us said, "Oh, you guys are the ones with the big purple box, huh?"
It's maroon, guys.
;P

N7UJJ

11-02-2008, 04:27

842 has named it's FIRST robots after people who have helped the team, yet are not the teachers, parents or others who directly receive a benefit from the team.

Our robots have been:
2003 Rosie: Named after a student who supported the team and raised funds, yet she was not a member. "I just think you guys are doing a great thing and I wanted to help."

2004 Marcos: An adult in the community who works at Intel and "adopted" us.

2005 Adam: The deceased son of a teacher at school who has donated so much time and support to the robot kids, especially the girls.

2006 Karen: Physicist, Ph.D., athlete, astronaut applicant, inventor and entrepreneur. She is the most upbeat person on the planet. She met us and volunteered to work with us. What a role model.

2007 Jerry: Karen's husband. Jerry is an architect and owns his own company. After watching his wife work with us, he became hooked. He is the most level headed, even tempered person on the planet.

2006 Virginia's DREAM: Virgina is one of those fantastic kids who strives to be graciously professional because it's the right thing to do. We are inspired by Virginia who works hard, contributes to the community, and excelled in high school. Virginia did not attend Carl Hayden. She was a student at another district school, North High School.
A week before she was to start at Arizona State University (full scholarship), she was taken from her family, placed in a holding cell with 30+ female prisoners for four days (one toilet, no hygiene supplies) She remained there until she "voluntarily" signed deportation papers. She did not talk to an attorney, her parents were not allowed to see her. Eighteen year old Virginia was taken to the Mexican border with only the money she had in her pocket and the clothes she was wearing and forced to cross the border into Mexico. She did not know anyone in Mexico. Her high school started a campaign called "Where's Virginia".
Virginia's story upset many of us, but there is nothing we can do. The students on our team decided that we would name our robot after her.
Some of the old timers in FIRST might remember the Amadou story a few years ago. (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=46922)

Jimmy Nichols

11-02-2008, 06:48

We always name ours after an esteemed mentor, names in the past have been Big Bill, Stormin's Norman, V^2 (Vintage Vinnage). This year's machine has been named after our Team Leader, long overdue, Sharky's Machine.

Wayne Doenges

11-02-2008, 07:05

2005 = Sidewinder II
2006 = Scorpion
2007 = Martha
2008 = Phoenix

Carol

11-02-2008, 09:24

MOE's robot is generally called MOE, but they all do have an official name, which has to have MOE in it. The names are nominated and voted upon by the team every year. This year we started with over 30 nominations, and everyone voted for their top three. The top three with the most votes were then voted upon again to get the final winner. It will be announced shortly, but here are the past names:

2000 - Big MOE (originally just MOE, but since it was the biggest we had ever built, it later got dubbed Big MOE)
2001 - Lil' MOE (smallest to date; it was built to go under the center bar for those of you who remember that game)
2002 - MOEhawk (it had two enormous wings to grab three goals at a time)
2003 - GeroniMOE
2004 - GizMOE
2005 - MOEbius
2006 - TerMOEnator
2007 - MOEzilla

BTW, for those who don't know, MOE stands for Miracle of Engineering

Wayne C.

11-02-2008, 09:33

since 2003 team 25 has always had "Evil Machines"

this year we are going with "EM 6- Jughandle" although "Boheeka" also is in consideration

WC

MoeMom

11-02-2008, 09:35

Just to add to Carol's post, brainstorming and voting on our robot’s name has always been part of our MOE spirit and team building. Since little kids always suggest names to us when we do community demos, the past few years, we’ve started asking for their input and even take chart paper to the demos and add them to our brainstorming list… they have great ideas and it’s a way to spark their interest in this year’s team and in someday joining a team themselves. MOE (Miracles of Engineering) was inspired by DuPont’s Miracles of Science slogan.

JudyVandy

11-02-2008, 13:48

Chuck has been Chuck since the kids decided that Charminator, for our major sponsor back in '97, was insufficiently muscley. Since many of the kids were wearing Chuck Taylor All-Stars, they came up with the name 'Chuck' for the Charminator and it stuck.

In our early years, we also had semi-scientific add-ons to the Chuck name, such as Chuck-R-2 and Chuck-PI, but then we were not easily recognized the following year with a different variation. We decided to stick with just Chuck.

11Mort11

11-02-2008, 16:29

from what i know our only named robot is from 2001 we call it cranberry:yikes:

Dan Petrovic

11-02-2008, 16:41

Team 166 kind of had a history of naming the robots "Tommy Hawk 1-5" every couple of years. Tommy Hawk being a play on words refering to the high school mascot, The Tomahawk.

We kind of grew out of that and haven't used it since 2004.

2005 - OTIS because of the style of our elevator.
2006 - Scorpio because of our shooter design.
2007 - Gemini because it was our first year building two robots.
2008 - Atlas because of the size of the trackball.

I really would have liked to continue the Zodiac theme with Aries because of our gripper design, but the team voted on Atlas for our 2008 'bot.

The names are only really used when refering to past years. Right now, and until we get to next year, the robot will be called "the robot". We start calling it by it's intended name when we build a new robot.

Quasar Navigata

11-02-2008, 16:51

We did not have a name the first two years because we just had to build the robot with the numbers students we had. This year we have named the 'bot the Nebuchadnezzar (yes the Matrix ship) and are doing a theme around that this year.

joycecutliff

11-02-2008, 17:04

we're thinking blitzkrieg (lightning war) because we have a german exchange student on the team :p

AdamC

11-02-2008, 17:50

We're in a real toss-up between The Spicy Phoenix....or Cupcake.

EOC

11-02-2008, 18:01

Jaws

legotech25

11-02-2008, 18:07

Our robot is named Philbert, which was a nickname for a beloved mentor who recently passed away.

Kittybot

11-02-2008, 18:18

To my knowledge, our team has had the following names for robots that I can remember from them talking about them.

Critical Mass- 2005 robot
Lucky- 2006 robot
Lollipop- 2007 robot

Our robot this year is named Homer, not saying why.

Torboticsmember

11-02-2008, 18:56

Our Robot's name last year was Vortex H-01, because our team mascot is the Tornadoes and were from Hammond and it was the first one. And it sounded cool
This year we are naming it Vortex H-02. Hopefully after next year they will retire the Vortex name because nobody on the original team will be there after next year, except for the mentors.

spc295

11-02-2008, 18:58

I was just curious if any teams give the effort to actually give a name to their robots, and if so why did you name your robot that?

Our robot (team 2189) is still without a name!

Our Robot is named Phoenix because our team name is Renevatio, which means rebirth in latin.

seanl

11-02-2008, 19:08

TRINITY VII its always been trinity...

Jherbie53

11-02-2008, 20:53

We're in a real toss-up between The Spicy Phoenix....or Cupcake.

Cupcake sounds really good.

I think its this, but I'm not really sure, that as long as we've been Built On Brains He has been called BOB. Every year it changes to old BOB and New BOB. This year was different though. We usually just keep last years BOB around until after the Championships or the next fall, but this year we had 2006 BOB until a week or two ago. Then it was old BOB (2007) and shooter BOB (2006). We usually don't start calling him BOB until he starts taking shape.

He really does have a personality. I remember in my senior year (2005) his drive train would always "jump" every time we turned him on. Then the next year when we started getting to the programing and driving time we where expecting him to "jump" again. It worried us the first couple of times when he didn't, but it's easier to work on him when you don't have to block him up off the ground for testing in the pits.

waitwhat?

11-02-2008, 21:27

In 2002 our team had dubbed our robot "Maximus" taken from the film "Gladiator." It went perfectly with our roman image. From then until 2006 we had just called our robot Maximus or Max for short. Then we changed our image and have decided to call our robot MAC standing for the first letter our highschool, our machine shop and our main sponsor. Middlesex highschool, Ansun protective metals, and Cordis corp. MAC

Alalea

11-02-2008, 21:35

I personally want Atlas, but are teacher dude wants the name of Speed Racer's car...

Are first robot was Sparky. Every robot we've made has had a piece of Sparky.

jimmythetulip22

12-02-2008, 00:57

Wow, I had no idea that this many teams named thier robots... :eek:

I guess we'll have to come up with a name for ours! :P

Speeder

12-02-2008, 12:09

~

Because Team #316 is comprised of students from different schools in Salem County NJ, the LuNaTeCs name their robot ‘SAM’, the acronym for Salem’s Awesome Machine.

~

JesseK

12-02-2008, 12:25

Last year was M-Cat since the ramps made an "M" as they deployed.

This year will be dependant upon what weight we have spare for decorations, as without them niether name will make sense. They're based upon how we capture a ball. The 2 choices are Paws or Pounce, sticking with the robocat theme. The team hasn't voted though, and it might not even be either of those.

diesel

12-02-2008, 12:57

EL JEFE

SteveJanesch

12-02-2008, 14:17

Our team names our robot when it's complete, so 'bot08 is nameless so far.

Our '05 tetra-hoisting bot was Sir Lifts-a-Lot.
In '06, The Regurgitator could collect balls off the floor and power them into the lower goals (from the same chute, naturally).
Last year El Chupacabra used a nasty-looking stainless steel claw to pick up and hang ringers on the rack.

SteveGPage

12-02-2008, 14:53

In years past, we have always named our bot - (04) BOB, (05) Pedro, (06) Shorty, and (07) The BEEst, are the past 4 names. Yet despite that, we have always just been called the "Robobee" - this year, I think we are going to just go with that name and our Bee Hive (the pit) theme. Hopefully we will be able to compete with Buzz again this year. They can Buzz and we will be the Bee!

Best regards,

Steve

Akash Rastogi

12-02-2008, 18:01

I want to name hte robot this year. Never really done it before. One of the really old bots is affectionately called Cranberry though:D I think its anodized so its a weird cherry color, that's why. too bad this year we're not running on tank drive, otherwise Robotank would be an awesome name. We've had the "Rad Rad Robotank" logo on other stuff before as well such as the 2006 ball shooter.

I wish this was our robot name.:D (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/25127)

apesquera

12-02-2008, 18:04

HEY, our robot's name is THE FULMINATOR

Schnabel

29-02-2008, 19:29

HamTray!

:D

Cow Bell Solo

29-02-2008, 20:13

Yep we named our robot, this year we named our robot "Schnel Bahn" which told from team mates from German say it means something like Fast track or Fast road, which is why we choose it. (we picked before the kickoff too). Last year we named our robot Ursa Major which is the bear constalation, and we are from White Bear Lake and our mascot is the Bear.

D_Price

29-02-2008, 21:20

Our robot has been named Charles after Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution. Our team name gives tribute to his theory of life and the fittest. Except we strayed a little from that concept a little this year and named it the Mantis...after the retracting arms that look like a praying mantis.

JaneYoung

29-02-2008, 21:35

Our robot's name this year is ZePHyr.

We always try to incorporate the PH (Purple Haze) into our names. This year we all contributed, discussed, and voted the name in our website forum. That way we got input from everyone who was interested and it helped prevent our teacher from choosing the name. The last couple of years' choices: Mary... we added PHender to go with it and then PHunky's Dilemma. (Mary PHender, yup.) But 2008 = ZePHyr. And that was before Kick Off. woohoo.

Branden Ghena

29-02-2008, 21:37

Team 240's bot is named NoodelKreig this year.

1) We have a foreign exchange student from Germany on the team.
2) Kreig means war in German
3) Our robot has pool noodles in its bumpers
4) Noodle in German is noodel
5) Noodelkreig (Noodle-war) was born! :D

Jim E

29-02-2008, 22:14

Our robot names tend to lean towards the robot's appearance.

1st yr. Rambot:)
2nd yr. Ballistic and Table Bot or Purple People Eater TRANSFORMED.:eek:
3rd yr. Phobos Robos with both RamRod andTable Bot TRANSFORMED.:eek: :eek:
2008: Track-a-pult.:D

DGrohnke1023

29-02-2008, 22:27

Bedford Express has named its robot each year. The past 3 years and this year we have named the robot after our coach Ellen Bacon.

2003-THOMAS (An acronym that no one remembers)
2004-The Yellow Dart
2005-Hurricane Bacon (or the Hurricane)
2006-The Ellenator
2007-Shake 'n' Bacon
2008-The Baconator

Also note that the robots with Bacon in their names have gone to the finals a combined 3 times while the one with Ellen saw only 1 quarterfinal. Because the robot is not a hamburger or in competition with hamburgers our research tells we should be OK using the Baconator as a robot name.

Stuart

29-02-2008, 23:20

1745
2006 Air-Raid
2007 Air-Raid II
2008 Gary(as in Sponge Bob)

ZakuAce

29-02-2008, 23:29

1745
2006 Air-Raid
2007 Air-Raid II
2008 Gary(as in Sponge Bob)

I hope that name is not a reflection of your speed ;)

Brian J. R.

01-03-2008, 00:43

1983's naming scheme...

2007: Corsair, we are based out of aviation high school, who knew?
2008: Das Uber Stinktier, named in honor of our German exchange student, Ol' Skunky is going German this year.

Beamer159

01-03-2008, 02:17

Our robot's name is Zebe-Tod

Cartwright

01-03-2008, 13:38

We named our robot this year Richie X because of the founder of our team Scott Richie. At the end of last year, he moved schools to become a vice-prinicpal at another high school and resigned from the team. Through his nine years at Cyber Blue, the team grew in both size and ability, and so this year our robot is in tribute to him. The X is because this is our tenth year and almost all of our former robots have had a roman numeral marking the year.

synth3tk

01-03-2008, 13:46

The Super Rad

Alalea

01-03-2008, 19:42

Not yet. The vote was for "Posiden", but "Atlas" is under consideration.

David Hoff

01-03-2008, 20:02

Precision Guessworks, Team 1646 named our robot Scorponok since it somewhat resembles this character form the movie Transformers.

Romino90

01-03-2008, 20:23

We wanna call it "what if" but our team captain isn't showing much excitement

emmell

01-03-2008, 21:48

Our bot this year is called Oscar after a certain surprise that people will see when we knock balls off in hybrid mode.

Last year, we named it Overkill because we over-engineered everything on it (got several awards because of that however).

Mannie

Jimmy Cao

01-03-2008, 22:00

We've always named our robot Cornelius (#). This year, we did "Cornelius IV Again". Usually, we add 1 to the last # to get this one. However, because we won championships once and then became national finalists the following year using the name "Cornelius IV", we decided to use it again this year. Hopefully it brings us good luck =D

Josh Drake

01-03-2008, 23:09

Wheelie Mammoth is this years. I guess it looked like one.:confused:
We had a good debate on the name this year. The runner up was Ifrit, the god of fire from final fantasy.

smurfgirl

01-03-2008, 23:15

This year, our robot is named Lightning. We wanted something to reflect the fast-paced nature of this year's racing-themed game, and something that sounded cool.

Previous robot names and reasons:

07 bot: Dynamite. We had a whole cheer about how "the ÜberBots are Dynamite!"
06 bot: Chainey. There was so much chain in that robot. And it broke a lot.
05 bot: ChubbBot. Our main sponsor at the time was UTC Chubb.
04 bot: Marvin II. Named after the previous years' robot, Marvin, but then the second generation.
03 bot: Marvin. I don't really know how it got that name; I'd have to ask someone who was around then.

lproxster

02-03-2008, 12:12

We're in between robot names currently...

At first we decided on Dread Pirate Robert ---- (I forgot the last part >.<) however we're contemplating changing it so somehow the word 'zip ties' can be used. The reason? Most of our robot is held together by zip ties!

Last year our robot was "Rosie the Riveted" named after the old '50s show: Rosie the Riveter. And also our robot was held by rivets last year.

HotWings

02-03-2008, 12:25

Rock Lobster, because we have to "claws" haha (And its really orange)

lasereyes

02-03-2008, 13:02

This is our first year, and we decided to call our robot Aurora.

vikram31291

02-03-2008, 13:09

Our robots starting this year will be a type of cheese, this year our robot's name is: Cheddar.

our old robots have been just blackpearl I, blackpearl II, blackpearl III, and blackpearl IV.

Graham Donaldson

02-03-2008, 13:15

Brian J. R.

02-03-2008, 17:29

RyanZ

04-03-2008, 18:26

i dont think so but if i were to name it it would be VIRTUOSO meaning winner

DPTeam270Driver

04-03-2008, 18:50

yea
we kinda wanted to to be FACON X but one of our mentors once said
"its the FALCONATOR!!!!" so that stuck

-team 270

Protronie

04-03-2008, 19:18

Ours is always named either the Kil-A-Byte or Kil-A-Bot. Haven't decided which this year.
-q

You could name it Smokey this year... or Flame... :D

j/k don't throw that wrench! :eek:

Rick TYler

04-03-2008, 19:53

One of my FTC teams spent weeks struggling to get a problematic design to work. Finally, less than two weeks before our first event, they stripped the robot down to its components and started from scratch. The name of their new robot? "Plan B". I loved it.

"Captain Hook" has a big steel -- well, you know -- hook, and "Chopsticks" picks up rings using a gripping device that looks like -- any guesses? -- chopsticks. "Plan B" is funnier, though.

roboticWanderor

04-03-2008, 20:23

each year we(team 418) try and name our robots so that it correlates with the game or robot in some way, and so that is has a 'f' or "f" sound in it. we then replace that "f" wiht a "PH" standing for out team name: Purple Haze
2008: ZePHyr
2007: PHunky's Dillema
2006: Mary PHender
2005: RaPHael
2004: PHlappy

we are still waiting for the year to name it "PHatty" or "PHailbot"

writchie

04-03-2008, 22:46

Team Daytona's entry for Overdrive is (rather naturally) the
Robot of Tomorrow (a.k.a RoT).

Steve W

04-03-2008, 22:53

Ours is Blizzard IX. Next year it will be Blizzard X. It helps when your name gets known and stays stable.

Jaybee1405

04-03-2008, 23:07

2004: RoboCharles (Our school's name is The Charles Finney School)
2005: Optimus Prime (?!?)
2006: Charles III
2007: Charles IV
2008: Charles V

Yay for one less thing to fret over!

=Martin=Taylor=

05-03-2008, 00:01

We've been making a serious effort to make our robots resemble various animals. The names correspond to each theme.

2007 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v519/spinmunky/Robotics%20stuff/robotics429.jpg) - Tube-A-Saurus Rex
2008 (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/img/48a/48a23cccacf798ed894b1a3715a74b91_l.jpg) - BallFrog

Simply putting eyes on our robots has given them tremendous personality, and made them more popular with our sponsors, community, and visitors to FIRST events. We have hundreds of pictures of little kids petting our robots. Those are good pictures to have for the Chairmen's Award... :)

synth3tk

05-03-2008, 19:01

Ours is Blizzard IX. Next year it will be Blizzard X. It helps when your name gets known and stays stable.
Yes, I like that not only in a robot, but a team. Having a consistent yet slightly different name each year will help with your reputation.

chatterboxx333

05-03-2008, 19:04

ours has been Wiki since last season.

BQuennell

06-03-2008, 08:48

We always come up with a name for our bot, usually having something to do with the bot itself. In 2004 when the robot was practically held together with zip-ties we picked up the name Zippy. In 2005 when a victor shorted and started sparking on just about our fist time testing the completed bot we named it Sparky. 06 because we used oh so many zip-ties again and our bot was quite box shaped we went with Zippy-Cubed or Z3 for short. Last year we considered it basically a miracle that the bot both got done on time and also managed to be underweight so we went with Lucky. This year when we managed to finish the robots design we already started making jokes about what to name the bot, using a 16-pound hammer to hit a ball over the overpass was quite distinct, and because we just love trying to dance we named this years bot Hammertime.

torra12

06-03-2008, 10:13

last year our robot was princess consuela.

this year, heathcliff southie.

southie after the woman who started the FIRST robotics program at our school..and heathcliff after the most beautiful person in the world.

Kyle Love

06-03-2008, 10:16

1646;s robot doesn't really have an official name yet. I am personally pushing for the name Victor, but Scopinox is floating around too.

Joe Matt

06-03-2008, 10:25

Team is Sparky 384 and each years robot is a version of Sparky (2.0, 3.0, and so on into infinity). Sparky was chosen because our bot was so "hand made" the first year we thought sparks would just shoot out of the back of it.

EricS-Team180

06-03-2008, 10:42

Spam's 2k8 robot is "Running With Scissors"

RDayan932

06-03-2008, 12:19

Team 932's robot name this year is the Circuit Charger, because our school's masocot is the charger, and we kind of are staying along the theme of a dodge charger.

Gene F

06-03-2008, 13:59

Team 343 Robot names
2000 - HCC-OP (Pronounced Hick-up for Hamilton Career Center/Oconee Business Partnership)
2001 - Silver Bullet
2002 - Manuel Overdrive (after mentor Charles Manuel who passed away)
2003 - Blitz
2004 - Doug Roberts (DR)(After student that passed away)
2005 - Trinity
2006 - Cyclone
2007 - Andre (After the custodian)
2008 - Wheelie Mammoth

Aly J.

23-04-2013, 08:16

i believe it has something to do with metal gear kitten due to our programmers.

NXTGeek

23-04-2013, 11:04

We name our robots after iconic swells- 2012 was Pipeline, 2013 is Mavericks.

cmrnpizzo14

23-04-2013, 11:41

This year we went with Disc Van Dyke. It has no connection to the robot but we had a Fr. Van Dyke at our school several years ago and we liked the pun. KokoEd suggested that we change our name to The Howitzer at FLR.

Bill_B

23-04-2013, 11:43

OK, I'll help with the revival.

This year I proposed that our robot be named Hillary. I was hoping for some sort of quizzical response about why a robot should be named after a Secretary of State. I then had to explain about Sir Edmund Hillary as one of the most famous climbers and one of the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Ho hum - history - yeah, well, Sir Edmund ain't such a bad name. I should have gone really abstruse and mentioned Tenzing Norgay.

spydan

23-04-2013, 16:08

Our robot is named Ragnarok! We named it for our climber, which looks a bit sinister. Ragnarok (in Norse mythology) is a series of future events, including a great battle which results in the death of a number of major figures , the occurrence of various natural disasters, and the subsequent submersion of the world in water (we are hoping for a water game!) It is also a world in Halo 4. See more at http://www.team708.org/current-robot.html .

jar24

23-04-2013, 16:16

team 468's 2013 robot is named Jericho

barn34

23-04-2013, 16:51

2481's 2013 robot is named Optimus Climb.

In addition to its efficient 30 point climbing prowess, it also transforms from shooter, to runner, to shooter, to runner, to climber...and back again to shooter for the start of the next match. We feel the name suits it well...although, we've had a bit of a hilarious internal debate on whether or not Optimus should be referred to with male or female pronouns...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtoXDBQhvXI

MisterJ

23-04-2013, 16:58

It's big, red, and sort-of-rectangular, so we added a flag and called it the Fire Truck. (Complete with fireman hats and suspenders on all the team members.)

Fire Truck: http://robotics.mcdevitths.org/2013-hh

Ben Martin

23-04-2013, 17:00

"Tyrannosaucer Rex" is the name of 225's robot this year. Somebody thought the robot looked like a tyrannosaurus rex, and the name stuck. We had some down time near the end of the build season and at our first competition, so some of the students decorated the robot with markers, contact cement, and foam to match its name.

Picture (http://www.techfire225.com/uploads/6/3/7/1/6371896/5073095_orig.jpg)

Kidney

23-04-2013, 17:44

My team names their robots every year.

2008 - Myrtle the Turtle
2009 - Hunk o' Junk
2010 - Reccostobor
2011 - FIRST Strike
2012 - Trickshot
2013 - Cyclone

Boe

23-04-2013, 18:42

Are teams robots are usually named after some distinct feature, or structure on the bot

2007-The Fighting Calculator (no real reason rookie year)
2008-Heavy Lifter (self explanatory)
2009-Box-o-Rocks (it held LOTS of moon rocks)
2010-The Multiplier (large x structure on the back of the robot)
2011-The Scorpion (our arm looked like a large scorpion tail)
2012-Blue Thunder (the robot was very blue that year)
2013-Trap (the main structure of the robot was a trapezoid that everything was attached to, also trap shooting came to mind)

MooreteP

23-04-2013, 20:22

From the FRC Manual:

4.1.13 ROBOT Name

R 4.1.13.1

Each registered FRC team must provide their ROBOT with a title, pseudonym, label, or nom de plume.

If this task proves challenging as a 30 point climb, it is suggested that each TEAM, upon the Bag and Tag deadline, go outside their build site and name their ROBOT after the first thing that they see in the natural world.
For example: Falling Rain, Foot of Snow, Half Moon, or Spraying Skunk, are considered acceptable.

Naming the ROBOT after your TEAM and the number of years that you have been in FIRST is considered to exhibit a level of creativity that is non-commensurate with the number of years that your team has been competing and will be penalized by the Master of Ceremony or Game Announcer by labeling your ROBOT with a fresh tag.

This is your creation and you owe it a personality.

ctccromer

23-04-2013, 20:28

Team 3753's robot is named Charizard, for 2 reasons:
1) it's our third year, so we wanted a C name
2) when it came time for top 8 picking, we wanted teams to be able to yell "Charizard, we choose you!"

Dragonking

23-04-2013, 20:40

Orion sometimes called Onion

PiKman

23-04-2013, 20:48

Our robots' names have always had some relation to their appearance and/or function:

2005- The Scorpion
2006- Clyde (from the orange ghost in Pacman, because Pacman ate dots, and our bot picked up balls)
2007- Johnny 5- the two suction cups in front made it look like the robot Johnny 5 from Short Circuit
2008- The "Land Shark". The painting on the claws look like shark's teeth, but it's on land, so...although some wanted to call it the Flying Tiger, after the P-38 (?) Flying Tiger where we got the paint idea.

Graham is right about Team 1676's first four years. A secondary reason for naming the 2006 bot Clyde was to honor Walt "Clyde" Frazier of the New York Knicks, since that robot shot basketballs (Aim High). The naming meeting usually happens after build week 5, because by then everybody on the team can see the shape of the bot.
2009 - Apollo, in keeping with the Lunacy theme. That was also the first year we built a practice robot. We named the practice robot Artemis (Apollo's twin).
2010 - Weeble. You know - weebles wobble but they don't fall down. We perceived that the humps in Breakaway would induce rollovers, so we built the robot incredibly bottom-heavy. We have photos of the robot on its front bumper, tilted past vertical, and it still fell back down onto its wheels. What a crowd reaction! The practice robot was named Wobble.
2011 - Mantisaurus. It looked like a cross between a Praying Mantis and a dinosaur. The practice robot was Electric Funeral (you can guess how neat the wiring was on that one).
2012 - Iron Horse. The robot's profile looked like a horse, or a Knight chess piece. The practice robot was Sarah Jessica Parker (make your own connections).
2013 - This year's robot is Sidewinder, because it shoots from the side. The practice robot is Turtle, because it's short and compact, and the concept of a two-headed turtle is an inside joke on the team this year.

Of course all Pi-oneers also know that starting in 2006 the unofficial working name (prior to official naming) of any of our robots is Mabawlz. This year it was Mabawlz 8.0.

OliviaG

23-04-2013, 20:48

We name our robots every year.
Since our team name is the Channel Cats, and we're Catfish, we try to chose something a bit... fishy.

2013: Fishbee
2012: BassCatBot
2011: Cahuna Cat
2010: Chum Chucker/Chummy
2009: Crater Cat
2008: Hydra
2007: Nos Machen
2006: Hunter
2005: Lone Lemming
2004: Mettle Tester
2003: WIB (What Isn't Broken)

apples000

23-04-2013, 20:57

I recall there being a robot named after how much memory was left on the controller. It was something like 3-bits...!

spikeman62

23-04-2013, 21:04

Here are some of the names of our 558's robots since I joined the team in 2009:

2009: The Great Glass Elevator- It was pretty much a polycord "elevator" that picked up the moon rocks
2010: KISS- Our robot looked like a Hershey kiss
2011: ? - I'm sure we had a name for the robot but it has seemed to slip my mind
2012: The Lampshade of Doom- We shot the basketballs with a pneumatic catapult that had a lampshade on the end. Yes, the lampshade shot the basketball. No joke. (See Attached Picture)
2013: Pez Dispenser of Doom- Our Shooter arm looks like a Pez Dispenser, pretty self explanatory

zzzag

23-04-2013, 21:41

Team 1554 robot names since I joined the team:
2013: Botman
2012: Woody
2011: Admiral P.L.O.W.
2010: Mufasa

P.L.O.W. originally stood for "Pneumatically Lifts Objects Well", but after competition we had to change it to "Pneumatically Lifts Objects... Well..."

Aiyash

23-04-2013, 21:44

Cosmobot XVII: Harvey

mcarobotics

23-04-2013, 22:35

Our robot this year was named Genesis, because it is our rookie year and our first robot.
However, we started calling it Carl partway through the build season for some reason.
So now its nametag reads "Genesis AKA Carl".

JeffersonMartin

23-04-2013, 22:45

In my time at 1648:
BEST 2011: The Stalking Mantis
BEST 2012: (Unofficially) Apollo 115
FIRST 2012: Biggie Small Boots (Named for our teem name and our bridge lowerer that had a boot stuck on it.)
FIRST 2013: Heavily contested, but was decided to be El Torro Rojo del Diablo Magnifico. Our practice robot was named Chassity, as apparently some people don't know how to spell chassis.

Adamc4

23-04-2013, 22:53

our Robot's name is RoDeL. It stands for Robot Delivery Lifecycle, something along the lines of the engineering lifecycle that we pushed a lot this year to accomplish. That involved meticulously designing the robot and understanding the game requirements before we started to build

Dreams2Reality

24-04-2013, 00:03

This year the robot is named Dyson, but we have yet to garner the attention of Dyson Foundation for sponsorship...:(

Programmer3941

24-04-2013, 00:05

We've tried to keep our robot names in line with our team name from year to year. Rebound Rumble's bot we named TAZER (TechBrick's Absolute Zero Electricity Robot). Our Ultimate Ascent bot name is a little more whimsical; we named "him" Kelvin: it unifies the three words of our lengthy team name. :)

z_beeblebrox

24-04-2013, 00:20

At first, our robot's name was Murphy's Lawyer. We lost the first five matches of our season and, halfway through the Phoenix Regional, renamed it Stormageddon and won our next eight matches. I guess we changed some things other than the name, but don't fool with Murphy's Law.

MattInAHat

24-04-2013, 07:39

Joe-Bot.
Because we're the Average Joes.
From St. Joseph.

We're really big on 'Joe' things.

DoctorMD

24-04-2013, 09:22

Recent names for 2587's robots
2012: Laser Dragon
2013: Disk Jockey

holygrail

24-04-2013, 09:26

Our robot this year is "The Killer Rabbot.". If you are watching Curie division at all, it will be easy to figure out which robot it is. Look for the rabbit with sharp pointy teeth!

gyroscopeRaptor

24-04-2013, 14:51

2011: IAH (Insert Acronym Here) was named as an afterthought, but after the season we renamed it EOD (Explosive Outerwear Dispenser) as a t-shirt cannon, but we mostly call it the paradebot.
2012: BEC (Ball Ejector Catapult) was fittingly named, and is one syllable as opposed to IAH's three.
2013: HEX doesn't have an acronym. There's a huge hexagon on our turret, so we named it Hex, and we officially have a name pattern.

gabrielau23

28-04-2013, 18:19

Lol, our team's robot names always come about rather spontaneously and just happen to stick. Last year our robot was named Frank for no apparent reason. Personally, I love the name. This year, the robot was named Odessa. No idea why. It just happens, although everybody has fun with it afterward trying to rename it.

Grim Tuesday

28-04-2013, 19:00

We have a long complex naming process for our robot involving nominations then an initial voting period then winnowing it down to two choices before we hold a final vote. It usually happens when we take the robot from our shop to a sponsor in week 5 to get it weighed precisely for the first time. We've broken the patter in the last few years but we try to name it something to do with red. For reference:

In general, we try to name it after some recognizable feature of the robot or just a cool name.

2007: Red Rover (cool name)
2008: Red Dragon (cool name)
2009: Red Hurricane (helix was kinda like a hurricane)
2010: The Commander (named after a mentor who was moving away nickname)
2011: Duck 'n Cover (robot looked like a duck)
2012: Dr. Swoosh (like Dr. Suess but basketball)
2013: Red Raptor (back to the roots of red; robot has a tall arm)