Robot Names

[O'Sancheski]

hey guys... i was just wondering what all the teams out there are naming their robots, and how you came up with that name...
Team Paragon's 2010 robot is name is Scurvy... our first name was Capn' Hook because of the hanging arm and winch had a hook, and since our chassis looks like a boat we tried to go with a pirate theme... so we had to scrap the hanging part of our strategy because we were 8 pounds overweight and dropping the hanging mechanism killed 13 pounds off the robot... so we sat down and brainstormed some new name ideas (trying to stay with the pirate and boat theme). so we came up with the name Scurvy...

[Nigel]

Our team got blasted by the snowstorm here in VA, and we lost near a week of time... we decided to honor nature with a little help from the daily show and we now call our bot "Snowtorious B.I.G." :)

[=Martin=Taylor=]

'10: Hammer Head
'09: Luna Beast
'08: Ballfrog
'07: Tube-a-saurus

We try and decorate it to resemble some animal each year. We are also using a hammer :)

[davidthefat]

10: Samantha... our Team leader is Sam, a guy... IDK who came up with that name... IDK if its official either

[MrForbes]

I don't know if the name Hank has been approved yet by the team, but that's what we call him on these late build nights

[dodar]

We named our robot Josephine lol dont ask why :o

2005: Bob
2006: Molly
2007: Larry
2008: Xena
2009: Frank
2010: Josephine

[robodude03]

Our team is sticking with the Wizard of Oz theme. Last year it was the Tinman. This year its The Wizard.

[BradMello]

Well our FTC bot is named International Harvester, after the song International Harvester by Craig Morgan. It's a country song and somehow we ended up listening to it and they say our team name (Rhode Rage) in the song. Needless to say it stuck.

Nothing like hearing the announcer of the match call your robot International Harvester :p

[Cooley744]

We normally name our robots random things. The past 2 years have been Sasha and Ralph. I think Charles is this year's bot.

[keehun]

Team 2502's name for our robot this year is "Simba" and I have no clue why. The marketing team started to use it and we thought it was very decent.

[Adama]

We have been using the name of the MVF (Most valuable freshman) for the robots name.

[blayde5]

We're unoriginal with our names and just name it according to how many year's the team has been around after an "El Toro"

Unfortunately, this year will be El Toro XIII <-- bad juju

[hg273]

Team 1540 (Flaming Chickens), tries to link our robots back to our name each year, with varying degrees of success.

2005 (rookie year) - Rocky
2006 - Free-ranger
2007 - Fowler
------ From 2008 on, we've built two robots, and named both the prototype and final----

2008 - Nemo and Dory
2009 - Epic and Fail (guess which one was the competition bot!)
2010 - Pyro and Spy

[Koko Ed]

Our robot is named X-Force.
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/img/c4f/c4fae8b41775e1e73a86e99a7cd6abae_m.jpg
Team members nominate robot names (they are encouraged to either have it with an X or Cat themed) and the whole team votes on which name they like best. X-Force beat out Xidane (which is a variation of the infamous French soccer player). The lead mentor had no idea who he was and when they found out he was eliminated altogether as a poor representation of what we stand for,

[JamesCH95]

We've always named our 'bot after either an important scientist/physicist or in honor of someone who contributed to our team.

This year it looks like Schrodinger, aka Dinger, is going to win out.

[Joe J.]

2000: Zeus
2001: Johnny 5
2002: Ziff
2003: Ziff 2.0
2004: Loki
2005: Carlson X
2006: Icarus
2007: Boris (Practice Robot: Natasha)
2008: Thor
2009: Spark Plug
2010: Nova

[Taylor]

Our robot is named Mark Koors. In this forum, I think no explanation is necessary.

Years past:
2009 - Marvin (the Martian)
2008 - Homer (the Hippo)
2007 - Lollipop (our manipulator resembled a lollipop)
2006 - Lucky (fortune cookie read "Lucky is coming your way")
2005 - Critical Mass

[Cynette]

Rolling Thunder's 2010 robot is Thunderfoot! :)

[Stephen Kowski]

gameCock-a-Doodle-Doo! (minus the game in front of that, it gets censored otherwise)....Chicken theme, gamecocks theme

[hipsterjr]

Ours has always been Burn-E (like Wall-E) because we are the Burning magnetos. But we are thinking about going with a penguins of Madagascar theme and naming ours Rico this year.

[AcesJames]

2008-2009 - Son of Maverick
2007-2008 - Blackjack
2006-2007 - Ace of Spades
2005-2006 - PokerFace
2004-2005 - P.G.B.I.F. - AKA Probably Going to Burst Into Flames
2003-2004 - Mayday
2002-2003 - Wild Bill
2001-2002 - Ace - AKA Ankle-Biter
2000-2001 - Scorpion
1999-2000 - Red Baron
1998-1999 - Maverick
1997-1998 - Stevie: Son of Roy
1996-1997 - Roy
1995-1996 - Hook

As you can see, most of the names have something to do with either cards or airplanes, going along with the Aces High theme...Although some are just random names, and some have real names but then acquire nicknames, as is the case with Ace.

Oh, and for 2010, we've actually yet to pick an *official* name. :ahh:

[sgreco]

My team doesn't have a name yet this year...but we will.

Our past names have been

2007 - JAWS
2008 - Ringo
2009 - Otis

[Abra Cadabra IV]

2008: Foothill Flyer 1.0
2009: Leviathan

We still haven't picked a name for our 2010 bot; votes are currently split between Captain Falcon and Excalibur. I'm pushing for Captain Falcon. :D

[AmoryG]

Our robot's name this year is ButtKicker 2010 edition. Just kidding, but the real name is equally bad...uh.... I love my robot, team, and country, but the name is just horrible. I wanted to name it Sqanto, but the team leaders (majority girls) decided on Elenor Dante Rigby 3.0. :rolleyes:

[Joe Schornak]

2009 was Cthulhu.
We haven't decided for this year, but we are considering Ackbar and Mephistos, among other things.

[MrForbes]

Our past names have been
...
2008 - Ringo
...

heh...our 2007 robot was named Ringo

[JohnFogarty]

aha this isn't the official name but once we made the treads we named it the KILLDOZER nut the reference to kill was in it so our mentors said no, I think it's the FIRST Tank or the Magic Tank ?? lol

[scott]

Team Roboto's Robots

2010: ??
2009: Crushinator
2008: Pac-Man
2007: Zorak
2006: Big Ben
2005: Dr. J
2004: Schfifty Five
2003: Mr. Fantastic IV
2002: Unit 3
2001: Mark II
2000: Mr. Roboto

[EddiesCouch]

While mounting electronics, we came up with Ultimate Skippy Robot of Doom. It was originally going to be skippy because some drive train problems made the robot do something akin to skipping and I just tagged on 'Ultimate - Robot of Doom' to the end as a joke and everyone liked it. I'm not sure if it's official though.

This is our first year so we didn't have any predefined themes but after reading everyone else's response it sounds like a good idea to have one. If we do decide to have one I'll push Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy until it can be pushed no more. Hello Petunia!

[Novi Hopper]

Starting in 2002, 503 began naming our robots after our mentors to show our appreciation for all their dedication and work.

2001: The Wedge
2002: Guenther (Mr. Braeuner)
2003: Big Joe (Joe)
2004: Holy Manoli (Mr. Manoli)
2005: Harvinator (Mrs. Harvey)
2006: Sonic DeCello (Mr. DeCello)
2007: Hungry Hungry Hepler (Mr. Hepler)
2008: Pulverizing Pittel (Mr. Pittel)
2009: Shermanator (Mr. Sherman)
2010: Annageddon (Ann)

[rob_c]

Team 2108 (Team Awkward Turtle) created a tradition our first year of naming our robots "Zippy" since we used so many zip-ties on the first robot (that's another story in itself...)

2007: Zippy T. Turtle
2008: Zippy T. 2
2009: Zippy 3 (Z3)
2010: Zippy 4 ("Zed 4")

The last two years, we have dropped the "T." part, and also created a nickname by which the team refers to the robot. This year, it was decided that since I am the captain and am English, and since the English pronounce the letter Z "zed", that we would refer to Zippy 4 as "Zed 4" :)

Rob.

[The Megan 2207]

2010: Dr. Robotnik
2009: Trogdor
2008: Schnell Bahn (We chose it because we thought it sounded kind of cool, then we saw the game. What a coincidence!)
2007: Ursa (Our school mascot is a bear)

[Team1710]

This year our teams theme is Top Gun. So every person on the team has a call sign that goes on our flight suits. It only makes sense for the robots name to be Ghost Rider because that is the name of the plane in the movie.

[Chris is me]

I'm pushing for "Power of H" or "Pinball Wizard", but nothing decided by the team yet. I guess there's a Big Bang Theory character tradition that would be broken, though.

[Bob Steele]

At skunkworks we have ( in the last 3 years) tried to tie in the skunk to our name

08 Das UberStinkTier (Super Skunk in German ...in honor of our German Exchange student Christoph!!) by the way .. none of the announcers could pronounce it correctly....

09 The Stench
10 Pele' le Pew

[Aren_Hill]

only one of our bots that had a name that was actually used was
2009: Snuggles (it fit the personality :p )

[blackbrigadeer]

One word of warning I have to other teams: if you're making up a name for your robot, make sure you look it up to make sure it's appropriate. 10 pages of definitions on urbandictionary.com made our team realize that we needed a new name for our robot.

This year, we're planning to name the robot after our head mentor if it's really good. Otherwise, we're going to name it after one of our clumsy seniors (who enthusiastically volunteered herself).

Just wondering, but do any other teams name the components of the robot? This year our kicker is the Frying Pan (even though it looks nothing like a frying pan) and our pull up mechanism is the Off-Bot-Pro.

[rob_c]

Just wondering, but do any other teams name the components of the robot? This year our kicker is the Frying Pan (even though it looks nothing like a frying pan) and our pull up mechanism is the Off-Bot-Pro.

We are using a spinner to "kick" the balls. Originally this was affectionately dubbed the "turtle flipper" but has since been renamed "the spinner of death" as we, when testing it at full strength (and not in its proper configuration) hit the ball in such a way that we almost hit one of the students in the head (he has good reflexes) and dislodged a ceiling tile.
I am not aware of any other named components on the robot, as of yet.

Rob.

[solopilot]

How about Spirit ? Like the tenacious Mars rover.

see http://marsrover.nasa.gov/home/index.html

--r

[Koko Ed]

Our robot is named X-Force.
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/img/c4f/c4fae8b41775e1e73a86e99a7cd6abae_m.jpg
Team members nominate robot names (they are encouraged to either have it with an X or Cat themed) and the whole team votes on which name they like best. X-Force beat out Xidane (which is a variation of the infamous French soccer player). The lead mentor had no idea who he was and when they found out he was eliminated altogether as a poor representation of what we stand for,

Our previous robot names:
* 2010 - X-Force
* 2009 - Apollo X (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/img/6d0/6d02adbd012a8478f6eb29d0e382a6cb_l.jpg)
* 2008 - X-Tender ( http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/img/713/7133d074c75971c5127ed280ad50d9c4_m.jpg)
* 2007 - X-Static ( http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/img/2bc/2bc5047de5de82028ffea76a25045bdd_m.jpg)
* 2006 - X-O X-Cat ( http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/img/0d9/0d959ce81083b259f99803c9a4f396eb_l.jpg)
* 2005 - X-WhAAAt? ( http://www.x-cats.org/2010/images/2005.jpg)
* 2004 -Project X ( http://www.x-cats.org/2010/images/2004_robot.jpg)
* 2003 - X-Tinguisher ( http://www.x-cats.org/2010/images/2003.gif)
* 2002 - X-Caliper ( http://www.x-cats.org/2010/images/2002.jpg)
* 2001 - DJ Sprocket ( http://www.x-cats.org/2010/images/2001.gif)
* 2000 - X2K ( http://www.x-cats.org/2010/images/2000.gif)
* 1999 - X (http://www.x-cats.org/2010/images/1999.gif)
* 1998 -Bone Crusher ( http://www.x-cats.org/2010/images/1998.gif)
* 1997 - Gonzo ( http://www.x-cats.org/2010/images/97_robot.gif)
* 1996 -Hex-Cat ( http://www.x-cats.org/2010/images/1996.gif)
* 1995 - Thundercat ( http://www.x-cats.org/2010/images/1995.gf.gif)
* 1994 - Archimedes ( http://www.x-cats.org/2010/images/1994.jpg)
* 1993 - Wildcat (http://www.x-cats.org/2010/images/1993.gif)
* 1992 - Tech-No-Nerd (http://www.x-cats.org/2010/images/1992.gif)

[robert2.0]

team 768 does not have the correct name. we thought about the junk yard dog since we used a lot of old parts :confused:

[spacegy4]

Team 639's robot is named The Commander this year. We voted on a large number of ideas and narrowed them down to that.

[DezNacario]

'09 bot was Fred (Frickin' Ridiculous Electronic Device)

This year we're proud to present Grace (Genuine Robotic Athlete, Communicating Epicness) and we're quite excited about her.

[1708xMr.Roboto]

We call ours Charles!

[mayde]

last year's robot was named after our programmer Enmar, and was christened "Romar Mod 6" because it was modified six times.

This year we are still arguing about whether or not the robot is male or female.

[waiakea11]

Ours is always Stitch ___ because we're from Hawaii...so we go with something people will recognize. So this year is Stitch 5 ^.^

[Michael Ogden]

In years past, our robot has been called the "Black Knight"... now the team members are called "Black Knights".

[waialua359]

POI POUNDER X-our 10th year in FIRST.

[Bananna]

07-08 was the Faustinator, after our teacher-mentor Mr. Faustine. 08-09 was Warditron, after Ms. Ward. This year...has yet to be decided...

[DirtyBird213]

We are the Dirty Birds and we thought this years bot looked like a bomb bot so we came to calling it the "Dirt" Locker from the Hurt Locker!

[Dantvman27]

Our school mascot is the Astros, after Alan Shepard, who went to our school. So this year we really wanted to emphasize that in our spirit, and it just sorta happened that our robot was space capsule shaped, so we have named our robot the Freedom 8 (Shepard's capsule was the Freedom 7)

[Wayne TenBrink]

2009: Otis - in honor of Elisha Otis, of elevator fame. So named because of our ball elevator. The ball collector was "Hoover"

2010: Tommy - As in "Pinball Wizard". So named because of the plunger device in the ball kicker and the way our kicker "foot" resembles a bumper on a pinball machine. The mechanism that charges the kicker, fires it, releases the lift cable/mast and drives the winch (four separate functions) is the "Quadrophenia Device". However, once we installed the roll cage it got a second nickname - the Crusty Crab. There is a picture in "Robot Showcase" under "1918 NC Gears Week 5 Pictures"

[O'Sancheski]

2009: Otis - in honor of Elisha Otis, of elevator fame. So named because of our ball elevator. The ball collector was "Hoover"

2010: Tommy - As in "Pinball Wizard". So named because of the plunger device in the ball kicker and the way our kicker "foot" resembles a bumper on a pinball machine. The mechanism that charges the kicker, fires it, releases the lift cable/mast and drives the winch (four separate functions) is the "Quadrophenia Device". However, once we installed the roll cage it got a second nickname - the Crusty Crab. There is a picture in "Robot Showcase" under "1918 NC Gears Week 5 Pictures"

nice...Team Paragons main sponsor is OTIS Elevators

[TNT280Staff]

Team TnT 280 has decided to permanately name the robot/s after one of our Founding Mentors - Jim Vandette - Mr. Vandette passed away Monday 2/15/10 after a long battle with cancer. So to honor our fallen hero we will be naming the robot for 2010 "Vandettenator 1"

[ttldomination]

Um...I'll see if I can remember.

2006: Swervin' Mervin
2007: Thunderhorse
2008: Longshot
2009: Logan Rover

We're still picking for the 2010 bot.

[JewishDan18]

We've named our bot Ellis, in memory of our late programming mentor, Dave Ellis.

[AnibaS]

We always have such long names for our bot (with the exception of last year, MadBot).

This year's robot: Kelly "The Beckham" Guitelman
named in memory of two friends of the team from our school who passed away last year, Jordin Kelly and Josh Guitelman.

And it's soccer this year, so who better to emulate that David Beckham? :p

[Sean Estrada]

TangeR
Our robot has a tank look and we are the Robotigers so we combined tiger tank

www.robotigers.org

[sami9145]

Team 2333 from Sapulpa...

This year the robot name is CTRL+ALT+DELETE because we have decided to be computer themed this year :) That means our team name is now the Blue Screen of Doom and our motto is "You have encountered a fatal error."

Whoohoo! Blue Screen of Doom!!!

:D :D :D

[Jubungo42]

Team 3015's robot is named Robocalypse because we are big scary and DESTRUCTIVE!!! if you want to learn more about our team or see our robot head to http://www.rangerrobot.com/index.htm

[Jubungo42]

Team 3015's robot is called ROBOCALYPSE because we are big, scary and will DESTROY YOU ALL!!! If you want to see more head to the ranger website. (http://www.rangerrobot.com/index.htm)

[Zac Pilarski]

we at 1711 the raptors are unoriginal so we just add the iteration number of our robot


08 raptor
09 raptor 2
10 prototype raptor 2.5 (and protobot)
10 raptor 3

[3015 kom2012]

Robocalypse

kom2012

[Mark Holschuh]

Our students have always come up with a fire-related name for our robots.

2007 Inferno
2008 Fireball (named after Fireball Roberts, a NASCAR star)
2009 Afterburner
2010 Pele (named after the Hawaiian goddess of volcanos, and the great Brazilian soccer player)

[Kurt W.]

How many teams have named their bot Chuck Norris? I hear at least one rookie team does it per year but i didnt see one last year (my first year).

[viking]

Our school mascot is the Viking, so we have used Norse Mythology:

2006 Odin
2007 Thor
2008 Brynhilde
2009 Loki
2010 Tyr

and speaking of Chuck Norris, we have named our promotional T-shirt launching bot:

Chuck Norse

[Carter12s]

we named our robot THOR!!!

[Mr MOE]

MOE 365 has a process similar to the X-Cats for naming our bot each year. A list of names is developed and the team votes. Names all have "MOE" as part of the name.

2010 MOEmentum
2009 CozMOE
2008 DynaMOE
2007 MOEzilla
2006 TerMOEnator
2005 MOEbius
2004 GizMOE
2003 GeroniMOE
2002 MOEhawk
2001 L'il MOE
2000 Big MOE

[falconmaster]

We have two this year the competition bot is Heather named after a school counsler who dies last year frim brain cancer. Her son is on our team. Our practice robot is Oscar who was one of the La Vida Robot 4 who beat MIT in the underwater robot comp. He has now been deported and has a wife and kid here in the US that are citizens. He has a degree in Mechanical Engineering and is now looking for a job in Mexico, Spain, or Canada. one of them is going to get a hell of an engineer that was trained in the US. Too bad for the US. We named the bot after him to honor his struggle.

[EthanMiller]

My team doesn't have a name yet this year...but we will.

Our past names have been

2007 - JAWS
2008 - Ringo
2009 - Otis

Funny, our robot was almost OTIS this year, although all caps. Funny, then someone on the team (a mentor) who hadn't seen the robot in weeks (yeah, I know, not sure how it happened, she's more business type, I guess) emailed saying the name was Striker.

[Phoenix Spud]

Team Phoenix (2342)

2008: Fenix1
2009: Special of the Day (our electronics board was made of a old sign board for a restaurant)

Thunder Down Under (3132)

2010: Wombot (It is an Aussie animal, and our robot looks a bit like a wombat.)

[fsgond]

In years past, our robot has been called the "Black Knight"... now the team members are called "Black Knights".

Actually the team as a whole is called the Black Knights.

[viper110110]

2007: Failbot
2008: Forklift to Heaven
2009: Twist n' Shoot/Howitzer
2010: We have bigger issues to work out at the moment... :P

[Bryan Herbst]

Since our rookie year, our team has included "feet" in the name. This largely stems from the fact that we used mecanum wheels our first year, and named it "happy feet." For whatever reason we continued this our second year.

2007- Happy Feet (Mecanums, plus the movie of course)
2008- Sweet Feet (No clue.)
2009- Slippery Feet (Slick wheels, duh!)
2010- Big Foot (I know, not plural. Named for the kicker though!)

[NullEntity]

1997: Thor
1998: TOBOR 1
...
2009: TOBOR 12 (We're clever :P)
2010: Tatorbot (We're still clever xD)

[Rick TYler]

Naming a robot is a little like naming a cat. Neither will come when you call, so why bother?

[fullthrottle]

Our team always calls the robot Rocky. I guess after Rocky Balboa. Weird cause we ive in Suth Jersy not Philly. But i'm not complaining.::safety:: :]

[MWB]

Bootsy Collinshttp://webpages.scu.edu/ftp/PHerrera/Images/bootsy_collins.jpg

[RoboTigers1796]

El Chupacabra

Yep, oficially named today.

[AcesJames]

176 is now considering both Crazy Legs and Dr. Claw for our name this year. Dr. Claw was suggested because our hanging mechanism resembles a claw, and Crazy Legs was suggested because we have articulating wheels, so when we pick up our robot, the wheel mechanisms tend to swing out and hit our knees as we carry it.

[O'Sancheski]

176 is now considering both Crazy Legs and Dr. Claw for our name this year. Dr. Claw was suggested because our hanging mechanism resembles a claw, and Crazy Legs was suggested because we have articulating wheels, so when we pick up our robot, the wheel mechanisms tend to swing out and hit our knees as we carry it.

yeah i saw your bot at your scrimmage anf love the hook system and articulating chassis

[Alex Chambers]

we came up with a name right before ship, we decided to name our robot after the local college sports arena since its shape reminds us of it, our robot is named moby.

[Jonathan Norris]

The Arbalist.

[Karthik]

2003 - Simbot Sally
2004 - Simbot Simon
2005 - Simbot Kevin - Named after Simbot student Kevin Hines who passed away prior to the 2005 season.
2006 - Simbot Beckham - The 2006 robot had the ability to bend its shots in a similar fashion to English Midfield David Beckham, hence Simbot Beckham.
2007 - Simbot Prime - Named after the Transformer Optimus Prime, for the robot's ability to transform into a ramp at the end of the match (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U2aYuUeUyQ).
2008 - Simbot SS - Named after the line of vehicles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Sport) produced by the GM High Performance division.
2009 - Simbot Panthro - Named after the robot that was played by Simbot SS (http://www.simbotics.org/photos/Degrassi) on the TV show Degrassi: The Next Generation.
2010 - Simbot Quatchi - Named after one of the 2010 Olympic Mascots (http://www.vancouver2010.com/mascot/en/profile_q.php)

[carolynn4848]

The mother of someone on our team looked at the robot and said "He looks like an Oliver." So, all day yesterday, more than half of us were calling him "Oliver D-Fence". I don't think it's official.

[vansivallab]

Team 2583's robot is called Grond (from Lord of the Rings), since it kinda looks like it in the front...at least when we built the prototype, and we kinda got used to the name.

[Kibaspirit]

The Enforcer.

It's an inside joke. [:

[rotolomi]

we named our robot Weeble after the Weeble-Wobble toy. the slogan of the toy is "weebles wobble but they don't fall down!", which is the function of our robot this year. we've designed the robot to self-right itself by keeping a low center of gravity and utilizing the bumpers so that our robot will not fall down if we lose balance driving over a hump, it will simply wobble its self right again.
Weeble may wobble but he won't fall down! :D

[delsaner]

we named our robot Weeble after the Weeble-Wobble toy. the slogan of the toy is "weebles wobble but they don't fall down!", which is the function of our robot this year. we've designed the robot to self-right itself by keeping a low center of gravity and utilizing the bumpers so that our robot will not fall down if we lose balance driving over a hump, it will simply wobble its self right again.
Weeble may wobble but he won't fall down! :D

I love how weeble overrided EVERY other option we had. I still hope our theme can be low rider. XD

[wedellm]

Team 1158, Eagle Corps Robotics, has named our robot Stryker in keeping with the soccer theme.

[Chuck Glick]

During our second to last meeting (after losing 10 days to snow) we decided that we still needed to name the robot.

The 5 step program for naming a robot:

Step 1: boy or girl? "well it kicks balls; so it's a girl" (exact quote from a student)

Step 2: funny event or reference involving this? "Well Meghan kicked Carlton..." (Both students on team, thankfully an accident :rolleyes: )

Step 3: someone attempts to write "Meghan" on the robot but fails miserably with handwriting and writes "megHan"

Step 4: "megHan" is stuck on robot forever in Sharpie...

Step 5: Acceptance. "I guess it's megHan"

[cheeser180]

GAMEOVER!!!!!!!.... is the name of our robot for 2010. Check out our hanging video on the robot showcase.
2009: Crimson Chaos (crimson paint job and red cathodes)
2008: Reign Of Terror (AKA "Reign Of Error")
2007: E-Wing (engineering wing at the school)
2006: Clementine (like the orange)

[FlyingHedgeHog]

2898's Roll cage makes the whole bot kinda like a big blue turtle...
So naturally we named our Leonardo. 1510's is red and named theirs Raphael, we just need an orange and a purple bot!

[TheDominis]

Turducken

[flippy147852]

our robot's name seems to be Otis Jr. because of the success of last year's robot (whose name was Otis.) They also both share the same blue paint color.

[Kohala2460]

Well We havent been thinking of a name much but i do think that a strong name has an impact on how you will do

[pilum40]

Ours is called GAGABot! The team wanted to name it as a "tribute-bot" to Lady GaGa. Why? I am definitely clueless on that one!

[Andrew Remmers]

Our robots from the beginning are named

06: No name just a robot.
07: Fire Pig
08: Walrus Pig
09: Bacon Delivery Pig (BDP)
10: Bacon Strips

We enjoy our names here at bacon good luck at competition

[[TBT] Vampire]

Last year was Romar Mod 6 after our programmer Enmar.

This year it's Michelangelo after our mentor Mike.
:D

[Rick]

2010: Striker Mk. I

[rotolomi]

Ours is called GAGABot! The team wanted to name it as a "tribute-bot" to Lady GaGa. Why? I am definitely clueless on that one!

you are my new best friend and I adore your team now :D hopefully I'll see your team at a regional/championships and check out your robot!!

[RMR: TeamPlasma]

Team 2403
2008: Rusty (because absolutely everything except the kit frame was made of steel, the judges absolutely LOVED that! ::safety:: )
2009: PEZZ (the balls were stored vertically and shot out one at a time, and the whole thing was a rectangular prism. Named after the candy, but with another z to avoid copyright issues)
2010: Still undecided! perhaps 'Patar' because our resident welder, Patrick, did an AMAZING job making custom parts this year!

[Adam McLeod]

"Didier Drogbot"?

[AdamHeard]

THEBOSS

[JGecko146]

The name of the team 501 robot is "Boomdeyada" because our 2009 robot was featured in the Discovery Channel Boomdeyada commercial.

Go PowerKnights!

[tanguma26]

This year we changed the concept and gave it the name of CHUPACABRAS because you would never see it coming. :D and our classmate's nick name is shaniqua:ahh:

[Tarzan19]

We named our robot Anklebreaker, because the kicker has enough power to shatter an ankle, and is at the right hight as well. lol

[SoulManLovio]

We decided to name it "Project X" because of our new shelving unit we built where in the design it had space for this years robot which was not built yet and the space was labeled "Robot X"

[578robotsrock]

our awesome machine's name is Uncle Ralph, named after one of our retiring mentor's sayings. Get the forms signed by your mom, dad, or uncle Ralph

[alicen]

we didn't originally give our robot a name, but by the end of peachtree, our robot was given the name "the smart car robot" :)

[AcesJames]

After seeing a few of our practice rounds in DC on Thursday, our team decided to name our robot Crazy Legs. Our autonomous programmer had forgotten to tune the PIDs, and as such our robot's articulating drive started to "buck" and, in essence, did a "jive dance" across the field, as the MC said. Luckily, the robot never crossed the middle line, and we even decided to leave the program as it was for a while, just for kicks. After a few more matches, some of the volunteers on the field even started to call the robot by its official name, without ever even hearing it. Very strange indeed.

[Tanner]

Our robot's name hasn't really been decided yet (spite it being after Peachtree). Officially, it's name is the "Logan Rover" as we didn't change the name in TIMS from last year (yay - go us for remembering). Although it's been called the "T-Chassis", "Tanner's Design", and some other long name that I shot down cause I couldn't remember it and it was a mouthful.

-Tanner

[Salbert]

2010: Rampage, because it has a ramp!
2009: Rover, cuz it picks up moonrocks
2008: Track-a-pult, it catapulted trackballs
2007: Phobos Robos, named after one of Mars's moons
2006: Ball-istic, it is a ballistic poof ball shooter
2005: Ramrod, heck if I know why!

[Danny Diaz]

Our original name (and the name we're commonly known by) is Purple Haze, so we started a tradition about 8 years ago to name our robots so that they have a PH in them somewhere.

This year's robot is named PHardos, a white dwarf star also known as Procyon B. Star Trek The Animated Series also created a Constellation-class ship (same class as the classic Enterprise) called the USS Phardos (NCC-1757).

Now we'll see how he/she/it performs in Dallas!

-Danny

[Gene F]

Team 343, Metal in Motion's robot is named JOC in memory of a former team member that was killed in a motorcycle wreck this past summer. This is the third time in our 11 year history that we have named our robot in memory of team members that have passed away. I hope this average goes way down over the coming years!

[Kimmeh]

This year, our robot is named Holy Cow because of all the holes in the frame. It was named by the mentor who ended up working on some programming.
He also named the tank code tanksareus and the ball handler's name is Wilson.

[PriyankP]

Canada FIRST::

1995: Chaos
1996: Havoc
1997: Mayhem

Early FIRST::

1998: Chaos²
1999: Fury
2000: Blizzard

Common Era::

2001: Blizzard II
2002: Blizzard III
2003: Blizzard IV
2004: Blizzard V
2005: Blizzard VI
2006: Blizzard VII
2007: Blizzard VIII
2008: Blizzard IX
2009: Blizzard X
2010: Blizzard XI

I don't know when will we change the name to something other than "Blizzard." :confused: :)
Pictures!! (http://www.team188.com/web/index.php?page=firstce.history&pagetitle=Common%20Era%20Robots)

[lproxster]

Team 2265's robot name is Kelley "the Beckham" Guitelman. The robot's named after two students who passed away last year (Jordan Kelley and Joshua Guitelman). The Beckham is in reference to this year's game.

[LLM]

Although we never change our robot name in TIMS, we do name them each year.
2003 Hyo-supposedly Hyo was Panther in Japanese (we later learned not so true...)
2004 Oscar-in honor of the suction trash can lid (remember Sesame Street?)
2005 Mr. Bill-the tetra hadler on the end was a plastic bowling ball painted to resemble Mr. Bill of SNL fame. This really dates some of us....
2006 Rosie- this goal shooter resembled Rosie the maid on the Jetsons...see comment from 2005 and multiply by 10....
2007 Yoshi-the raptor-looking ring grabber
2008 Flingo- a play on our Beatles theme that year and the flinging action of our bot
2009-Ruby-a nod to its Rube Goldburgish design
2010 Scherman-in honor of our founding mentor and beloved friend, Dean Scherman, whose wise guidance, patience, and integrity made Team 1108 the team that they are, and who lost his battle with pancreatic cancer just a few short months after taking our team to Championships. We miss you Mr. Scherman and we are trying our best to make you proud.

[Puffin]

I kind of want to name my team's robot "Colbert" after the treadmill that is in a node in the International Space Station =D but nothing official yet.

[SteveGarward]

Not sure if it's been posted here.. Team 3132 of Australia has named our robot this year: Wombot.

It's kinda short and fat, stumpy, if you will. And the ball control lets out a real growl. :)

[MPG]

this year we named our robot "Oswald" after the cartoon octopus because our robot is an octogon. the names from our previous bots are all in my signature

[Jon Jack]

2005 - Yoshimi (After the Flamming Lips song)
2006 - Bessy (First year competing as 'The Holy Cows')
2007 - Daisy
2008 - Daisy II
2009 - Daisy May (Kids didn't want to keep incrementing a number after Daisy, so they gave it a 3 letter name.)
2010 - Daisy Bell (four letter name)

[Sumathi]

Last year our robot was G.A.B.L Gyrascope Aligning Balancing Leverage, named after Gabe A.B. Long

This year we wanted to name it after a famous horse, so we went with Trigger.

[synth3tk]

2003-2007 - Elite Technobot (possibly inaccurate, but that's as far as I know)
2008 - The Super Rad
2009 - Papa Bear
2010 - iBex

We usually agree on a name sometime near week 6, when we realize that it's still nameless. Don't ask me how we came up with them.

[Vermeulen]

2010- Calcio
2009-Artemis
2008- Atlas
2007- Agitator
2006- Clawdia
2005-Spork
2004-Epsilon

We tried to break from the whole "greek names that start with A" thing, considering how it's gone for us in the past...

[sp33chy]

Ours is named Lancelot.

Next year I'm hoping to name it after another knight of the round table.

[pfreivald]

Our first robot went unnamed.
Then came Jared, because he had to lose a lot of weight in a hurry. Mediocre robot.
Then Wilson, because tennis balls were incorporated. Mediocre robot.
Then came Shiela (from Red v. Blue), and we were semifinalists. Were she only faster, she would have been a top bot.
Then came Baba Ghanoush, who we only talk about in shameful whispers.
This year, it is Karen, who kicked so much butt at the FLR that we are all still stunned at how well we did: Top seed, Regional Winners, absolute rulers of the FLR mid-field with a 15-3 record.

...so in the future, all of our robots are going to have female names...

[M. Mellott]

Our first robot for team 3193, Falco Tech, is "Talon Alpha", from the talons on a falcon, which is the school mascot. "Talon I" was considered, but the students all liked the standard military nomenclature for letters instead of Greek numbers.

[wendells]

team2185....robot name is FIRE...HD (Fire in high defination);

[waldo]

It's almost as hard as naming your kids. At least you get to see the robot grow up and take on its personality before you have to name it. They both (bots and kids) always leave home with more "tweaking" needed, get a little bruised up in the real world, come home for a little TLC, and their pictures always bring back a flood of good memories.

2006 - Sprocket - (it had about 16 of them on it)
2007 - RampZilla - (when deployed, we had a 16 foot "wingspan")
2008 - Trigonosaurus - (Trigon is latin for ball, our grabber "chomped" the ball, and could go to 10'+ high)
2009 - String Theory - (hopper walls and rollers used a lot of 1/4" polycord and tubing)
2010 - Jiminy Kickit - (smallest bot we've built, has extendable antennae for ball control, and the roller makes an annoying noise)

[fordchrist675]

Here is 675's past 6 years:

2010 : "The Green Machine" (The ramp is green)
2009: The Weavinator or The Toaster ( toaster because we were ghost toast, and Weavinator for chairmans)
2008: Glory Angel ( in dedication of an alumni who got in a serious accident)
2007: Gloria Machina ( Glory to the machine, felt like it)
2006: Cthulu ( I dont quite remember why we chose it, back then haha)
2005: Delilah ( The programmer demanded that it be named such or no code)

[Matt Howard]

2005-2010: For Sale

In our Rookie year we needed a piece of backing material for our team Number, so we went to Staples and bought that For Sale sign to use. We never trimmed off the excess and have had the same sign on every robot we've had!
http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee71/phschallenger/Robots079.jpg

[BrendanB]

2005: Elvis- the king of rack and rail
2006: Sargent York (for the incredible sharp shooting capabilities similar to that of the movie, really good movie!)
2007: No real name, could be the Enforcer for placing 3rd at GSR and only playing defense.
2008: Fezzik (from The Princess Bride and how it can lift big rocks:trackballs) and Mach6 (AKA Speed Racer)
2009: Colonel York (in memory of Sargent York and hoping to live up to its sharp shooting name)
2010: Vortex (for the suction cup ball control)

[Mr. Van]

Here they are for the Robodox:

2001: the D.O.C.T.O.R.
2002: Surgeon, MD
2003: Therapist
2004: Dentist
2005: Psychologist
2006: Dermatologist
2007: <Default>
2008: Physician
2009: Neurologist

I'm sure you see a trend (I'm not really sure what happened in '07). For 2010, the first year we're being sponsored by St. Jude Medical (a company that makes artificial heart valves & pacemakers), the name was obvious:

2010: Cardiologist

-Mr. Van
Coach, Robodox

[Phreadumb]

Before 2188 was known as Critical Mass:
2007 Robot - "Fatboy"
2008 Robot - "The Hurricane"

Now that our team name is Critical Mass:

2009 Robot - "Nuke"
2010 Robot - "Havoc"

[Ralph Lambert]

We ususally make a long list of robot names related to the game, the robot shape or just our team name - the Channel Cats - then take a vote. In keeping with our fishy theme and the fact that we are spitting out soccer balls (bait), we selected Chum Chucker as our robot name this year.

Last year we called it Crater Cat.

[Enigma's puzzle]

2007: Sheila 2 I still don't know why?
2008: Lefty, Because it would only turn right while it was having programming issues.
2009: Fry Daddy, The top ball holding portion looked like a Fry Rack
2010: WatchDog, Because of the watchdog troubles we are having/(hopefully)HAD

[Wayne Doenges]

2005: Sidewinder II. Mentor Jerry Smyth (R.I.P.) created his own ariplane design and called it Sidewinder. Our robot was dedicated to him.

2006: Scorpion. The design looked like a Scorpion.

2007: Martha. Mentor Al Thorn's mother had passed a way. Her name was Martha.

2008: Phoenix. Jerry Smyth had passed away. We were rising out of the ashes of not having him on our team.

2009: Skyhawk. Dedicated to Jerry Smyth. He flew the A-4 Skyhawk in the Vietnam war. Off of carriers :ahh:

2010: Delta (Ice and Fire). Delta shaped.

[sithmonkey13]

Team 1178's robots:
08- Manny (after the prongs on it to lift the ball, made it look like a mammoth)
09- the Robot (we never named it)
10- Mikey (after the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, because we gave it a plexiglass armor, so it looked like a turtle)

[kjolana1124]

2005: Chubbot because we were sponsored by UTC Chubb, we're so original
2006: Chainy because it had a lot of Chain...again with that originality
2007: Dynamite. Not sure why it was before our team, but one of the members was a cheerleader so we bought the "We are Dynamite!" cheer in from the squad. I liked that one
2008: Lightning...no idea why, but it was awesome
2009: Vortex because we had that spiral loader type and it looked like a twister


2010: STRIKER

Because it kicks/strikes the ball.

1124: Originality at its finest.

[MarkoRamius1086]

Since we became 1086 we have picked a new cheese name every year.

2008-Cheddar

2009-Meunster

2010-Swiss

It's allot of fun brainstorming and debating before the season... because the seniors usually pick the name before-hand.

[Chris is me]

2010-Swiss


Why not save the name for a year you're super overweight? :D

[Warren Boudreau]

Mia SPAM.

Afterall, it's soccer. Right?

[MarkoRamius1086]

Notice no hanger on us? We have ALL the weight on the drivetrain. We had plans for a hanger... but the weather caused us to fall behind in time. If we still want to put one on we are going to put some serious cheesing into our robot... but we are doubting we are going to do it because we dont want to degrade our structural integrity and take off any of the functional parts of our drivetrain... which is just about EVERYTHING!

[smurfgirl]

I love the evolution of our robot names.

2003: Marvin
2004: Marvin II
2005: Chubb-bot
2006: Chainey
2007: Dynamite
2008: Lightning
2009: Vortex
2010: Striker

(The team voted on Marvin in 2003, opted to keep the theme in 2004, UTC Chubb became our new main sponsor in 2005 so the robot was named after them to honor them, in 2006 the robot had massive lengths of chain, the 2007 name was based off of a team cheer, 2008 was lightning fast, 2009 was shaped like a vortex, and by now I'm out of the loop and I'm not sure of the 2010 reasons.)

[Josh Drake]

As Gene mentioned, our 2010 robot is named JOC (Jock) after John O'Connor. In Florida the judges were describing our robot before presenting the Xerox Creativity Award, and they said it was like a "Jack in the box," so we quickly picked up "JOC in the box:D"

[sircedric4]

2009 - Dante - we were going with a fire theme with our newly rookie team: Prometheus

2010 - Chester - This year we decided to turn our flaming ball headed mascot into a game player. Our t-shirt is him bouncing the soccer ball off his chest. We're a good kicking, endless loop robot which catches the ball off the tower so it seemed appropriate. Also who can resist a good pun. :-)

[PayneTrain]

We have a weird history of robots...

Mech Tech GSGIS Era
2000-Grunt Master 9000
2001-Peacemaker
2002-IT
2003-Funky

Mech Tech Phoenix Era
2003-Phoenix (Robots stabbed by Forklifts don't usually survive, so a new Phoenix was commisioned)
2004-Phoenix Rising
2005-Phoenix TryForce
2006-Phoenix Pi
2007-Phoenix Phenomenon/Quattro (Fourth in Series)

Mech Tech Dragons Era
2008-Dante (Ring of Fire hoop for Overdrive)
2009-Redemption (Because the team needed to be redeemed after the mechanical and strategical failure of Dante)
2010-Ahab (When your poorly attached kicker, capable of beheading someone, becomes unattached and flies into another teams box, your team may lose the safety award, but harpoon puns are abound)

[joek]

'07- Happy Feet- dismantled
'08- Sweet Feet- dismantled
'09- Slippery Feet
'10- Bigfoot

'09 side project- mark I Knight bot
'10 side project- Spiderbot/ Knightbot
'10 side project- knightbot Mk 11