Robot names?

[Graciebot]

Who's naming their robot this year? Anyone come up with any clever names? :)

[mayde]

You can't name it until it's finished!!
Last year, we couldn't even decide if it was male or female for a while.
after he was finished, we named him Michealangelo partly because he's such a work of art (due to our beautiful custom galvanized chassis and homemade wheels) and partly because one of our mentors Mike was so great the whole season.
The year before that, the robot was named Romar mod6, after our lead programmer Enmar (like Robot Enmar) and mod6 because he was dramatically modified six times.

so it really depends.

[Hallry]

Last year, we named our robot Weeble since 'it could wobble but it couldn't fall down'!

However, we usually don't name our bots until they are at least 3/4ths done (I think), and it usually involves some type of unique quality or ability that the robots has.

[flippy147852]

We usually don't name our robot until it has a defining characteristic. However, a name that has been tossed around a lot lately at base camp has been Dr. Evil (and Mini-Me for the minibot(s)).

[CNettles11]

We were thinking of naming our bot "princess" but, i think we'll save the names for the end.

[synth3tk]

We normally don't come up with one until week 5 or later, but this year we pretty much settled on one at Kick-off. Quite fitting for the game, too.

[goiaba1860]

Looks like I'm new to the team never hear that nameable the robots, but we always laugh at the comparisons that people make when we take them at events! Compare our robo 2007 with an equipment that provides the weather 0.0

[Astrokid248]

Our robot is always named MP4 until week 3. MP4 stands for My Pretty Pink Princess Pony.

[Brandon_L]

Our last years was sharkbait, because of a sticker we had on it. It evolved into a chant and everything, none of it was planned haha.

http://i714.photobucket.com/albums/ww144/team2495/2010/IMG_0086.jpg

[mike_dbdesigns]

We're thinking of naming ours " The World Champion "...:D

Good Luck

[Kevin Wang]

In our team, the privilege of naming the robot goes to our most generous sponsor.

[Karibou]

There are going to be so many robots named Eva this year. Calling it right now.

We alternate between male and female robots every year, and it's now established that we're going in alphabetical order. The name also sometimes has something to do with a prominent feature of the year's game, though that's not always the case.

2006 was Balzac (I don't remember the story behind that one)
2007 was Charlotte (after Charlotte, the spider in Charlotte's Web)
2008 was Atlas (after Charles Atlas...I think the idea was lifting heavy trackballs=bodybuilding)
2009 was Diana (the Roman goddess of the moon)
2010 was Erdős (after mathematician Paul Erdős; again, I don't think there was a reason)

So for 2011, we need a female name beginning with F...

[Joe Schornak]

Our 2009 robot was named Cthulhu, after the Lovecraftian horror. It did fairly well, making it to the semifinals.

Our 2010 robot was named Admiral Ackbar, after the Rebel commander at the Battle of Endor. It experienced technical difficulties, and did not do particularly well.

Thus, it will be more favorable to name our robot after a fictional cosmological being than after a fictional mortal. We have yet to test the effects of naming the robot after a nonfictional person.

This year, I'm thinking Yog-Sothoth, keeping with the Lovecraftian theme.

[JaneYoung]

If you look on our page (http://www.firstwiki.net/index.php/418) in the FIRST Wiki - and scroll down to the list of robot names, you'll see that we began using names that have the PH in them for Purple Haze. We are LASA Robotics/Purple Haze.

The use of the PH in the names was started innocently enough by one of the team members discussing a part of the robot, saying - "that big flappy thing." From there, the team dubbed the robot, Flappy. I suggested using PH in place of the F and that's how our history of using names with PH in them began. We have some serious Trekkies on the team now and so part of our search for names has now included a nod to Star Trek. PHardos was named after The USS Phardos (NCC-1757) - a Constitution-class Federation heavy cruiser starship of the Achernar-subclass, ordered for construction in the 23rd century, named for the star Phardos. :) This one was a double because the super Trekkie on the team is one of our mentors who teaches ... wait for it - astronomy.

This reminds me... we need to update our page.

Jane

[Seathan93]

We name it based on whatever is so amazing the entire team agrees on it.

Last year we named it Burn Bot because our school TV program did a Halloween episode where our robotics team "created" burn-bot, a robot which made witty comments and made fun of everyone in the school...until it walked so far away from our lab it pulled the power cord out of the socket and died.

This year, we have no idea what we're going to call it, but inspiration will come eventually. :)

[Mr_I]

Names rarely get decided until after it starts coming together, usually around Week 5. For the most part the names have some significance, and are generally intelligent in nature.

The previous robots were named:
2002 - ARC (Amazing Robotic Cardinal)
2003 - Red Streak
2004 - Red Streak II
2005 - ARCTAN (no real story here)
2006 - MISTT ("Mr. I's Stupid Throwing Thing")
2007 - Sparky (after an unfortunate incident during build ...)
2008 - Ella Vader (Darth's sister)
2009 - Noisy Cricket (after the sound the ball kicker made)
2010 - Calctro (Latin for "I kick")

Can't wait for Week 5 to find out this one!

[Karibou]

2007 - Sparky (after an unfortunate incident during build ...)


Ha, our 2009 robot's nickname was Sparky, for the same reason...we now have EXTRA fire extinguishers because of it ;P

[CalTran]

2009 our team's robot name was GABEL. Something like gyroscopic...rest of the name. You'd have to ask a veteran who was on the team that year to get the full story. Breakaway's robot was Trigger. She was a friggen' beast. We got that name because we looked up awesome horse names, and the name Trigger sounded pretty awesome and western. (Metal Mustang Robotics -> Horse; Cowboy hats are our speciality)

[Koko Ed]

We vote on a name for our robot annually we even go as far as designing logos for the particular robot (http://kokoed.deviantart.com/#/d2i46rs).
Most of the time the name features an X in it,

[hg273]

This year, Team 1540 held a contest with the lower school (grades 1-5) at Catlin Gabel to help us choose our robot names. After sifting through over 230 submissions, the team decided to name our 2010 competition robot Lightning, and our practice bot Thunder. Each of the students who submitted those names with have their name engraved in the robot.

This is the first year we've tried this. In previous years, we've tried to name our robots in pairs.
(Practice robot name in parentheses)
2010: Pyro (Spy)
2009: Epic (Fail)
2008: Nemo (Dory)
2007: Fowler
2006: Free Ranger
2005: Rocky

[Stephen of REX]

Its gonna be "REX 6" this year, since its our sixth year and sixth competition bot. Although we will probably pick a better one, previous ones included "REX 4 the Win" and "REX 5 is Alive!"

[davidthefat]

We named it Samantha (Our leader was a guy named Sam) last year, Julian is the leader... It only makes sense to name it Juliana.

[Borntolose]

We never named our robots in the past and we won't this year either.

[Carol]

MOE votes every year on a robot name, that has MOE in it somehow. It may or may not have anything to do with the game theme. It's getting harder each year to find a good name, but I bet that the students will come through again. Suggestions welcome!

Our web team has done a great job of documenting these - pictures and descriptions can be found on our web page.

2010 - MOEmemtum
2009 - CozMOE
2008 - DynaMOE
2007 - MOEzilla
2006 - TerMOEnator
2005 - MOEbius
2004 - GizMOE
2003 - GeroniMOE
2002 - MOEhawk
2001 - Li'l MOE
2000 - Big MOE

[JaneYoung]

Suggestions welcome!


MickeyMOE and MiniMOE.

[flippy147852]

So for 2011, we need a female name beginning with F...

http://www.thinkbabynames.com/list/0/F

[mechE131]

Enforcement Droid, series 209; or ED-209 for short

[MathMaven]

Last year, my team named our robot Sir Lancelot (going on the whole medieval theme because our school's mascot is a knight). We decided that year that we shall name this year's robot Sir Robin (as in Robin Hood--again, medieval theme).

[LondonBoy29]

What is the purpose/significance of naming your robot?

[MathMaven]

What is the purpose/significance of naming your robot?

I think I speak for many teams by saying that naming the robot makes building the robot more personal. I think it is also true that we just like naming our robots.

[synth3tk]

What is the purpose/significance of naming your robot?
Branding, recognition, and it adds some connection to the mechanical beast you just spent 6 weeks of your life with. Plus it's pretty fun to come up with names for your robot. Some teams even go as far as painting or adding stickers to really give it "life".

[Enigma's puzzle]

Porkey the Robo Pine

[GaryVoshol]

What is the purpose/significance of naming your robot?

How can you do this http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/31492 if the robot doesn't even have a name? :)

[Karibou]

http://www.thinkbabynames.com/list/0/F

Can't say I've heard of most of those names, but it's a good list to have XD

Our selection process usually includes everyone on the team being given a chance to suggest a name (and any reason behind it), and then a sub-group (Imagery) makes the final decision.

What I'm thinking of for my suggestion is "Felicity". Check out the economic definition. It fits well with the game.

In economics, utility is a measure of relative satisfaction. Given this measure, one may speak meaningfully of increasing or decreasing utility, and thereby explain economic behavior in terms of attempts to increase one's utility. Utility is often modeled to be affected by consumption of various goods and services, possession of wealth and spending of leisure time.

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I also did some asking around today. Atlas, our 2008 bot, was actually named for the Greek Titan, Atlas. He's the one often portrayed lifting a giant sphere/globe. Similar to the trackball from that year.

[Koko Ed]

MOE votes every year on a robot name, that has MOE in it somehow. It may or may not have anything to do with the game theme. It's getting harder each year to find a good name, but I bet that the students will come through again. Suggestions welcome!

Our web team has done a great job of documenting these - pictures and descriptions can be found on our web page.

2010 - MOEmemtum
2009 - CozMOE
2008 - DynaMOE
2007 - MOEzilla
2006 - TerMOEnator
2005 - MOEbius
2004 - GizMOE
2003 - GeroniMOE
2002 - MOEhawk
2001 - Li'l MOE
2000 - Big MOE

Satchmoe

[Grim Tuesday]

Last year was one of our only years that we decided not to include "Red" in the name somehow.

2010-The Commander, named for a nickname of a mentor who was moving away
2009-Red Hurricane, named for the helix
2008-Red Dragon, named for a dragon decal on it
2007-Red Rover, ?????

Past there I dont know.

[Clem1640]

We name our robot DEWBOT n (n = I, II, ... , VII). DEWBOT stands for Downingtown East & West (high school) roBOT.

We open a STEM school next year, which may lead to a change in this tradition.

[Chris is me]

2791's 2011 robot will be named Gene.


(as in Simmons... KISS... Get it?)

[IndySam]

We started naming our bots in 2006

2006 Wazoo, because we had balls coming out of our ....

2007 Randy, named after our teacher sponsor

2008 Lynn, named after the mother of one of our students who died that year.

2009 Wazoo II, see above.

2010 Igor, what hump.

2011 Woody, because the drive base will be made out of wood.

[surfwizz]

We named our robot McTwist in 2010 year, from a running joke about one of our mentors. 2009 was Orange Force, and 2008 was the Rip City Ape, for reasons we still don't completely understand. Sometimes, our robots (especially in FTC) are named for their mechanical idiosyncrasies. Our 2008 FTC robot was called Squeaky because of its incredible squeaking gearbox. In 2010, we named our robot the Crushinator, for its obvious crushing abilities.

[Erik Huang]

We had a pretty efficient way of naming our robots:

-2005: '05 bot
-2006: Champion bot
-2007: '07 bot
-2008: '08 bot
-2009: '09 bot
-2010: we prefer not to talk about him :D

[Chuku]

We had several project names for our robot during 2010 FRC build season. We originally named the robot "The Shark" during development but after an internal naming competition we renamed as WOMBOT. The new name was a combination of Wombat (an Australian marsupial) and Robot.

[ThatHubrexGuy]

We're thinking "Electric Slide"...

Yeah.

[lyeckley]

We have always named our bot here...well mainly me... haha. Since 2252 is the Mavericks we always chose Western Names.... but we don't know yet because we normally make jokes about it mid-season.

[Koko Ed]

We decided to name our 2011 robot LegXXcy

[Waffles]

We have a whole list! We probably won't be deciding for a while though. We have a lot of names... this year, there's three robots we need to name! (the FRC bot, minibot & our USB hub robot)

:)

[AcesJames]

Most of 176's robots have had to do with our team name, Aces High.

Aces High can be taken two ways. The first representing the flying Aces of WWII, and the second being the poker term Aces High.

Recent robots:

Ace
Ace of Spades
Pokerface (2006, pre-Lady GaGa, I swear :rolleyes: )
The Red Baron
Blackjack


This year, our robot's named Red Baron II.
The robot will carry the theme with red frame pieces and coverings with designs similar to that of the original

[FRC4ME]

339

The robot will be "Kilroy," as always.

And the minibot will be "Kilboy." :D

[Techhexium]

Suggestions welcome!
Ammonia - AmMOEia
Ammonium - AmMOEium
Metamorphosis - MetaMOEphosis

[Garten Haeska]

Our robot is called "A pile of cr@p"

[PayneTrain]

The 2009 robot went by the name "Redemption" after our, well, um, apparently the team did put a robot on the field in 2008, contrary to results. Some members called by the name "Mephistopholes" since the 2008 robot was "Dante."

I like looking at our last two years, and this year, as the Redemption Series. The goal of the name is to build the team from the ground up, back to a level of function admiration and respectability.

2010 never was officially christened, but "Ahab" was usually used. We had a pretty killer harpoon kicker (that worked once), and there was some salty language to be had during the sort time it had to be built. It was also a tough, crazy robot. Very overachieving.

2011, our build lead has chosen "Gurren" for the hostbot and "Lagann" for the minibot.
For those who don't know, it comes from the anime Gurren-Lagann, and the reasoning behind its usage can be seen here. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfUTihyusSg)

[Grim Tuesday]

If a team names a robot Leeroy Jenkins! Then I will personally bake them cookies.

Think about it, the annoncment:

"And from team xxx LEEEEEROY JEEEENKINS!!"

[JamesCH95]

We named our robot Watson and our mini bot Crick.

[Alan Anderson]

If a team names a robot Leeroy Jenkins! Then I will personally bake them cookies.

Think about it, the annoncment:

"And from team xxx LEEEEEROY JEEEENKINS!!"

Start preheating your oven.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showpost.php?p=999954&postcount=11

[toastnbacon]

Last years robot started out being named SUE, the Scinario Utilitizing Expert. (Parden my spelling)Somewhere along the line, after we had a huge problem with the drive train, someone renamed it SOO. Same pronunciation, except this time it ment Stationary Object Only. This years is GEORGE, but so far, we can't figure out what it's short for.

[bookworm0422]

I am from Team 313 the Bionic Union and our robots name for 13 years has been Sarbez, it is Zebras spelled backwards since our starting school was the Wayne Memorial High School Zebras. It will and will always be that name till the end of the team.

[Aren_Hill]

I'm pushing for Mr. Cringerpants :p

[falconmaster]

We name our robot after someone who has had a big impact on our team. Sometimes its a mentor, sometimes a person who inspires us. This year its named after a former team member who is now an electrical engineer and staunch advocate for the DREAM act. Her name is Dulce and the robot is called Dulces DREAM.

[Eagleeyedan]

We named ours Daedulus and the minibot is Icarus.

[Frenchie461]

Since we're sponsored by purdue, our robot is ROWDY 12 and the minibot is PETE.

[MathFreak]

Does your robot have a name? I heard some of the teams's robots have names...

[MagiChau]

We always call our robot Bob.

[O'Sancheski]

Glad to see someone created this thread again for this year.

2011: Blue Cyclone (http://http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/36529) and Spider (minibot)
2010: Scurvy (http://http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/34947)
2009: Tycho Drifter (http://http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/32921)
2008: Guido (http://team-paragon.org/history/2008/)
2007: Renegade (http://http://team-paragon.org/history/2007/)
2006: Spyro (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/23396)
2005: Dark Side of the Robot (http://team-paragon.org/history/2005/)
2004: Blue Steel (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/17697)

[Hawiian Cadder]

2011 - The electric slide
2010 - Moby
2009 - Minotaur
2008 - Hooptie
2007 - Impala-bot
2006 - assembly 100
2005 - the dark knight

[Chadius012]

2011 Robot: Sheldon
2011 Minibot: B
2010 Robot: Ashley
2009 Robot: Bob
2008 Robot: Jeff Jr.

[Bob Steele]

Our robot this year is named:

Skunk-i-am

The reference should be fairly obvious....

[dodar]

2011: Ironman and War Machine
2010: Josephine
2009: Frank
2008: Xena
2007: Larry
2006: Molly
2005: Bob

[kinghashbrown]

2011: The Red Baron Two
2010: CrAzY LeGs
2009: Son of Maverick
2008: Blackjack
2007: Ace of Spades

just some of the past few years

[Koko Ed]

We've named our robots all 20 years:
* 2011 - LegXXcy
* 2010 - X-Force
* 2009 - Apollo X
* 2008 - X-Tender
* 2007 - X-Static
* 2006 - X-O X-Cat
* 2005 - X-WhAAAt!?!
* 2004 - Project X
* 2003 - X-Tinguisher
* 2002 - X-Caliper
* 2001 - DJ Sprocket
* 2000 - X2K
* 1999 - X
* 1998 - Bone Crusher
* 1997 - Gonzo
* 1996 - Hex-Cat
* 1995 - Thundercat
* 1994 - Archimedes
* 1993 - Wildcat
* 1992 - Tech-No-Nerd

[HannahF]

Our 2011 Competition robot is named Flashforward and our practice robot is named Flashback in honor of our 2007 robot Flash :D

Our minibot's name is Rewind because it goes so fast you'll need to rewind and rewatch the video to see it...at least we hope ;)

[Brandon_L]

2008: Burt (http://i714.photobucket.com/albums/ww144/team2495/2008/P4070701-1.jpg) & Big Bertha (http://i714.photobucket.com/albums/ww144/team2495/2008/P3120599.jpg)
2009: Unnamed
2010: Sharkbait (http://i714.photobucket.com/albums/ww144/team2495/2010/4422396621_95211b7847_o.jpg)
2011: Sharkbait II (http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/185936_143996978996556_100001587659081_287475_4879 436_n.jpg) and Fred (http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/198364_146039368792317_100001587659081_300428_1601 670_n.jpg) (brother minibot, same design, by 2458 is George, who I can't seem to find a picture of. Ironically, Fred got bent up and George got pretty much demolished at New Jersey.)

[ksoccerbuzz175]

2011: Buzz 16 with minibot The Kraken!

[Jeffy]

2011: Robot- Shadowfax Minibot-Pippin
2010: Trigger
2009: GABL (intials of a favorite team member)
2008: Ally-luminum (naive rookie team named this :p)

[liam.larkin]

Has (1998) and hopefully always will be

HORSEPOWER

[KevinGoneNuts]

our 2011 Robots name is Dragonov

[Nikki Haux]

2011: Sharkbait II (http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/185936_143996978996556_100001587659081_287475_4879 436_n.jpg) and Fred (http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/198364_146039368792317_100001587659081_300428_1601 670_n.jpg) (brother minibot, same design, by 2458 is George, who I can't seem to find a picture of. Ironically, Fred got bent up and George got pretty much demolished at New Jersey.)
I love when nerd groups combine. Sorry for interrupting the thread.

Our robot isn't named, as far as I know, although I know our cRIO was named after an old mentor.

[BigJ]

05: Super Uper (i think)
06: Super Uper Mk II (i think)
07: Super Uper Mk III
08: I don't think we named it this year.
09: Nom-V (i believe this name was given in the middle of the season for the chevrons on our collection belt)
10: Uptimus Prime Six (UPS, our sixth robot, also the kicking system sounded like a Transformer)
11: UPtaSaurus Rex (Our roller clam/arm on the lift was deemed to look like a dinosaur head)


We also refer to our Classmate as "the baby".

[Nathan Streeter]

1519 has named its robots, also:

2005 - Elvis, King of Rack and Rail (named for its extension elevator system)
2006 - Sergeant York (named for its sharp-shooting turret)
2007 - N/A (this robot was our least successful - since then we have always been careful to name them before the competitions!)
2008 - Fezzik (named for its hefty arm) and Speed Racer (quite obviously for its speed)
2009 - Colonel York (named for the similar turret to the Aim High robot)
2010 - Vortex (named for the hurricane-volume vacuum possessor that could lift trackballs)
2011 - KangaRoo (hostbot is Kanga, which carries Roo around in her "pouch")

[Andrew Lawrence]

Big Robot: Rampage (named after our team: The Robo-Rams[Named after our school's mascot, the ram])

Minibot: Ramboy (Also named after our school's mascot)

[KevinGoneNuts]

11: UPtaSaurus Rex (Our roller clam/arm on the lift was deemed to look like a dinosaur head)



Our team knew that some other robots would look like Dinosaurs, so we thought a dragon was just as cool. Plus since our team is a syndicate this year we thought dragonov (yes I know it's spelled dragunov, but this is so we don't get in trouble with anyone haha).

But when my team goes to nationals, our teams have to meet up, since you guys are our +1000 counterparts. haha

[arob9119]

FIRST team 2395 robot's name is Ryujin, meaning "Dragon King" in Japanese.

[Joe Finkel]

Our bot was named RoboBob 2.0 in 2004. It's Jacki now.

[jspatz1]

2007: Elevation Station
2008: Force
2009: Force 2
2010: Force 3
2011: Final Force - Minbot: Isaac (as in Newton)

[Squillo]

Our robot (Kauaibots, Team 2465) is Thunder Chicken!

[CallieJ]

We've named our bots since '08, but they're all pretty random. Usually something just catches on during the season.
2011- Mazarine
2011 Minibot- Tagalong
2010- Dory (from Finding Nemo)
2009- The Cookie Monster
2008- Katherine (after our team captain who was the same size and weight as the robot)

[biojae]

FRC 399's Bots:
2011: James Bot + James Bit (The minibot)
2010: The Wizard
2009: The Tin Man
2008: Phantom
2007: Buster 399
2006: TNT
2005: Mr. Clean
2004: Gobstopper
2003: Oompa Loompa 2
2002: Oompa Loompa
2001: Cledus
2000: PacBot

[katiebelle]

The Robot Formally Known as For Sale!

[Alan Anderson]

2011: XXcelsior (our twentieth robot!)
2010: Bat Robile
2009: Jake Blues
2008: HamTray (long story)
2007: RackStar
2006: Katapult
2005: SkyHook
2004: KatsKlaw

I get confused trying to remember the names of the 1992-2003 robots, so I won't risk getting them wrong here.

[CallieJ]

We decided pretty early on that the minibot would be Tagalong this year, because it's just too perfect.

Took a while longer to decide on the actual robot name, but after extensive googling she's now Mazarine (after a type of blue butterfly).

Our names follow no pattern whatsoever. So far we've had a cartoon fish, a puppet from Sesame Street, and a team captain. And now a butterfly and a Girl Scout cookie.

[Pamelot2067]

2010- Ronaldo
2011- Little Foot with Mini Bot Petrie

[rclothier]

1723's Robot Names

2011: "Mater" -- because it looks like the tow truck in Cars
2010: Little Dude
2009: Pickles
2008: Pickles
2007: Green Machine
2006: Agent X

[R3P0]

Does your robot have a name? I heard some of the teams's robots have names...

2011 "pneuman"

http://www.livingsystems.net/2011team1504/Penguin_repo.jpg

2006 "herbie"

[rabridges]

This year the students decided to name the robot after a mentor, the robot's name is Bob-O-Matic. The mini bot's name is Mini Kraken.

[R3P0]

2011 "pneuman"

http://www.livingsystems.net/2011team1504/Penguin_repo.jpg

2006 "herbie"

2011 minibot is now being called "Hamburglar" as the gears ate a mentors finger at Kettering. :ahh:

[Racer26]

1075's robots have always been named "Sprocket <number>"

2003 edubot: Sprocket 1 - I believe this one is still in our shop
2003 FRCbot: Sprocket 2 - cannibalized for parts in the 2004 season, reconstructed summer 2004, recannibalized for parts in the 2007 season, I believe frame and drivetrain is still intact, perhaps sans-motors.
2004 competition FRCbot: Sprocket 3 - cannibalized for parts in the 2007-2009 seasons, was used for competition testing of 2006-2008 robots, I believe the frame, drivesystem, and arm remain, but without actuators.
2004 practice drivebase: Sprocket 4 - steelframed chassis to hold our 2004 drive system so that we could code autonomous while Sprocket 3 was in the crate. Frame remains in our shop, but the functional parts were used on Sprocket 3 in competition
2006 FRCbot: Sprocket 5 - completely disassembled. you can find some component systems (swerve modules, ball launcher) lying about our shop, but the frame is long gone, cut up, and re-used into later bots.
2007 FRCbot: Sprocket 6 - I believe this robot is still mostly intact, though it may currently be without drive units. The drive units on Sprockets 5,6,7, and 9 were interchangeable.
2008 competition FRCbot: Sprocket 7 - Completely dismantled, I haven't seen ANYTHING still around the shop that belonged to this robot.
2008-Present Robotic Cart: Sprocket 8 - Still in use, has been upgraded to run a split voltage (12/24V) system using Black Jags to run its drive wheels.
2008 offseason FRCbot: Sprocket 9 (yeah, we did a complete rebuild, it was that bad) - 100% intact. Has been used for competition testing of 2009-2011 robots.
2009 FRCbot: Sprocket 10 - All systems intact, except electrical. cRIO and speed controllers stolen for Sprockets 11-14
2010 practice FRCbot: Sprocket 11 - I haven't seen it for a while, but I believe its still semi-intact. Pieces were stolen to fix Sprocket 12 in the offseason. Probably missing alot of the electrical system to feed Sprockets 13 and 14.
2010 competition FRCbot: Sprocket 12 - 100% intact, used for competition testing Sprocket 14
2011 mecanum drivebase: Sprocket 13 - intact, but I think the electrical board is in Sprocket 14.
2011 competition FRCbot: Sprocket 14 - In the bag, waiting patiently for Waterloo in a couple weeks.

8 years, 14 robots, many of which don't exist anymore.

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2056's 2011 entry is named "Unfinished Business"

My guess is that this is an allusion to their 4 losses at Championship with multiple regional winning robots, most recently their 2010 robot, carrying them to elimination in the semi-finals on Einstein.

So far, Unfinished Business is off to an excellent start, winning FLR with 217 and 1518. As far as I understand it, 2011 marks a new era for 2056's drive team. Their drive team has consisted of the same people since 2007, who are now no longer highschool students, and therefore ineligible.

[SteveGPage]

We finally came to an agreement about the name last week at GSR. This year's robot from the Robobees is "The Pollenator" and the mini-bot is "Sting."

Next week, our "home" regional, the Chesapeake Regional! We are excited to bring the Robobee's 10th season robot to the Baltimore Convention Center!

Go Bees!

[Ryan Caldwell]

2009: Ganymede - Cup bearer to the gods in Greek mythology. Also the largest of jupiters moons, the largest moon in the solarsystem.

2010: Cerberus - Guardian of the Underworld in Greek mythology. Multiheaded dog whom guards the doorway between the land of the living and dead.

2011: Hermes - Messenger of the gods in Greek mythology. Hermes the swift footed thief whom brought fire from the gods to man.
2011 Minibot: Evil Crouton - An anagram of Crevolution, minibots are evil for being such a pain and yet so simple. "ta mere est une baguette"

[gyroscopeRaptor]

Our inaugural robot is named I.A.H.

Insert
Acronym
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A meta-joke made by Forrest against all of our other names, and other team's names.

I was going to vote for either "Jag Slayer" or "Time Bandit", as they both have deep meanings. Time Bandit, because our robot is the deadliest catch and stole our freetime, Jag because of out triple-kill on jaguars early on.

[delsaner]

1676 Names

2011: Mantisaurus - The claw looks like a mantis, and dinosaur, because the combination of the arm and elevator looks like a dinosaur.
2010: Weeble - We had such a low COG, that our robot never tipped. Weeble's wabble but they wont fall down.
2009: Apollo - Moon themed name for Lunacy
2008: Land Shark - The claw resembled a the jaws of shark.
2007: Johnny 5 - Our gripper looked like the robot from Short Circuit.
2006: Clyde - Reason Unknown
2005: Scorpion - The arm made the robot look like a scorpion.


Suggestions welcome!


Is it too late to name this years robot LogoMOEtion or LocoMOEtion? :p

[Nelson]

2011- The Narwhal, so named because of the "horn" scooping device used to pick up tubes.

[Colin P]

Apparently, 910 has named their minibot "Sammy the Snow Squirrel"

[davidthefat]

Julie

[pilum40]

Team 3355
Batbot and Robin

We name it based on whatever is so amazing the entire team agrees on it.

Last year we named it Burn Bot because our school TV program did a Halloween episode where our robotics team "created" burn-bot, a robot which made witty comments and made fun of everyone in the school...until it walked so far away from our lab it pulled the power cord out of the socket and died.

This year, we have no idea what we're going to call it, but inspiration will come eventually. :)

[vigkvagkv2]

Ice CueBie. A lot of people on our team wanted to name it Frozen Fjord (including me) but Ice Cuebie won. We named our practice bot Frozen Fjord instead though.

[Sumathi]

2009: GABL (intials of a favorite team member)


While it was the initials of one of our favorite team members it stood for Gyroscope Aligning Balancing Lever :P

[bobosalad]

Kraken

[KStout#3536]

we are a rookie team and decided to go with "EPIC 1". next year will be EPIC 2 and so on and so fourth. EPIC stands for "Every Person Is Capable", we went with this because we are a rookie team working out of a woodshop 3 days a week for 3 hours a night and we placed third in our first district match when we went up against 32 vetrean teams and 8 other rookie teams. so EPIC 1 is more than a name for us. and our minibots name is TIMEX like the watch because it has climbed the pole and scored alot but has also fallen from the very top like 4 times and it keeps working haha its a tank!

[Grim Tuesday]

We named our robot "Duck 'n Cover" because it looks like a duck. Other names considered were "Duck Norris", and "Quack Attack"

[Spatel7793]

Kraken

Are we releasing it?

[treffk]

The team decided to name ours Audrey this year, in memory of a student member who passed during build season.

[Astarties]

We named ours Sweet 16. Because we kept finding places where things were 1/16th of an inch off.

[bobosalad]

Are we releasing it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGGJ1mTYe_Q&feature=channel_video_title
This is our promo (and we are making more)... Watch at 50 second... YES WE RELEASE THE KRAKEN!!!