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Naming the robot
My team is having a ridiculously difficult time trying to name our robot something clever and game related, does anybody have any ideas? :P
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Maybe something Egyptian or Aztec related with the pyramids and all
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When we name our robot it either has to be with an X or cat related (X-Cats get it?) and combining it with this year's theme (Our theme this year is the FIRST Pyramid of Success) or the game helps.
This year we voted on SphinX as our robot name. Previous Names: 2012 Exxio Auditonimous 2011 LegeXXy 2010 X-Force 2009 Apollo X 2008 Xtender 2007 X Static 2006 XoX-Cat 2005 X-WhAAAt?!? 2004 Project X 2003 X tinguisher 2002 Xcaliper |
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I would wait to have something come out naturally within your team. Maybe a certain part of the robot will define what you think of it. Our team name (PVC Pirates) came from our robot in 2004. Another one of our robots was named after a character from a show. Someone should come up with something good naturally after a while.
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We name our robot around the 4th week of the season, once there is something sitting on the table that looks like a robot. First, people write possible names on the white board for the morning of the session (we do this on a Saturday) and then by mid afternoon we have a list of about 100 things. We go through the list with everyone and require a number of seconds to let the name past the initial stage. After the preliminary ballot, we usually vote and if it is a close vote, eliminate all but the top two (or three if they are even) options then hold a second vote. That is then our robot name.
For reference, we ended up naming our 2012 robot Dr. Swoosh for no reason other than it was a cool name, 2011 Duck 'N Cover because it looked like a duck, 2010 The Commander after a mentor who was leaving the team and 2009 The Hurricane after the shape of it's helix...I could go on. |
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We always name our robot after a character in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. This year, we are leaning toward The Killer Rabbit (our team mascot), or The Cave Beast of Aaarrrgggghhh. We haven't decided yet and will probably do so around week four.
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Megamaid Ring-O TOM-1 Major Tom Hank Balthazar Hughes I'm sure it follows a theme, but I have no idea what that theme could be. |
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I think ours look something like this over the years.
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All 1592 did was just rotate between a boy and a girl name and then just thought of a game right name or just a cool name
2005: Bob(everyone names their first robot Bob) 2006: Molly(the team always listened to Flogging Molly at build meetings) 2007: Larry(named after a mentor) 2008: Xena(lead build mentor really liked the show Xena) 2009: Frank(we couldn't really think of a name) 2010: Josephine(because she looked like a cockroach) 2011: Tony and Rhoady(we nicknamed the main robot Iron Man and the minibot War Machine) 2012: Bonnie(Like Bonnie and Clyde, with Clyde being 801's robot) |
We usually name our robot circa week 5 when the first robot is done. It typically is named something relating to our theme but since we are opting out of a theme this year it will probably be something game related like DISCovery or something
2012-elwood and haynes (city of firsts theme) 2011-mariokat and eXXcelsior (videogame theme +our 20th season hence XX) 2010-batrobile (super hero theme) 2009-jake and elwood (blues brothers theme) 2008-I don't remember 2007-rackstar and starlet (rock and roll theme) Etc |
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Well, there's the Hammond way: Beast.
Our team, since 2010, has stuck with horse names. Trigger, Shadowfax, and Epona. |
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My team always comes up with some rather interesting robot names. They are often named after a key part of the robot.
2012: Bowser's Castle (The turret looked like a toilet seat and the rest of the robot looked like a castle) 2011: Dr. Aughun (The robot looked like a dragon, so dragon, Dr. Agun, Dr. Aughun) 2010: Caspian (Because we could) 2009: Archie GhettoBot III (Originally was named Archie, but then we used a lot of duct tape between competitions to completely change the design 3 times) |
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Like you guys, our robot names are also quite strange. 2009: Bison 1 (Team name was "Bionic Bison" at the time) 2010: Officially Bison 2, but no one calls it that. I usually call it "Power of H". 2011: Gene (KISS, get it?) 2012: Filibuster (Thanks, Jack.) We have a strong candidate for our 2013 robot name that we will reveal once we're certain it makes sense with our design. |
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Our naming process is pretty straight forward: Buzz (insert year)
This year will be Buzz XVIII In general though we hope the robot will speak for itself. :) Regards, Bryan |
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I suggested "Humpty" for ours. Being Knights (King's Men) adds to the appropriateness.
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We always name ours "Spooky #", this year is Spooky 10.
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Last year our robot was named Fromage. Actually it was Her Royal Majesty Fromage the Great. Fromage came from one day in the build season when we were weighing her and realized she was way overweight. We agree'd on swiss cheesing her, and someone said we should call her the swiss name for cheese.
After explaining that there are several official languages in Switzerland, we agreed on Fromage. This year, the robot's name is WUERFELVERBINDER, after our Bosch cubic joints. It's also our team's new favorite word. Another part of our robot is named [EPIC VOICE]THE SPATULA OF DOOOOOM[/EPIC VOICE]. |
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We name ours after people who done a lot to help us or that inspire us. This year ours is named Ingrid's DREAM. Named after Ingrid Tay, a former team mate who graduated from ASU with a 4.0 gpa in mechanical engineering on top of being undocumented. An outstanding feat in itself for a normal student, much less an undocumented one. The DREAM is for the dream act which our team full heartedly supports! Hopeful it will pass in congress and the senate this year....
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2815, being sponsored by the University of South Carolina, has a bit of a tradition of honoring the school's mascot, the gamecock.
2009: Cocked and Loaded 2010: CockADoodleDoo 2011: Cockasaurus Rex 2012: Incocknito 2013: TBD, though contenders have already started circulating around the shop. (Yes, we know this can get testy as one gets further from South Carolina. However it is also very normal here, appearing no fewer than three times in the fight song. The mentors retain veto privileges, which helps smooth it out.) |
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Seeing as the OP's team name is "Shrapnel Sergeants", I propose that their robot name should be "Sergeant ________", where the blank is filled in by something different every year. If it can't be filled in, use "Sarge" instead.
330 has had some unnamed robots, some named robots, and some named robots where the name was never recognized officially. "BeachBot", "BeachBot 2", "B2K", and "BeachBot 4.0" (1998-2001) led off, followed some years later by "Pedro" (2005), and some years later by "32" (2010), then "Skyhook" (2012). I don't remember any names being officially recognized from 2002-2004, or from 2006-2010, though the 2006 robot was tagged with a name for one match...before someone canceled it. |
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Hmm. Ya know, we really havent named our robot as a whole really, but rather as individual parts.
Last year we had the: Bridginatior Indexinator Shootinator Many many many Chromeinators (We had sooo much plastic stick-on chrome on our robot last year, but its kinda a tradition now) And at our first district we had to add the deflectinator to stop balls getting lodged in our wheel. So this year we have the Ascendinator.... Thats its so far! :p |
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Animals. Always animals. We usually decide based on what the robot looks like. Awesomeness of the name seems to be directly proportional to robot performance.
Starting in 2007: Tubasaurus Ball Frog Luna Beast (or Balrus) Hammerhead (or Ball Shark) G-Wrath Kracken Our 2007-2010 robots (left to right): http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/34912 |
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These are some interesting responses, haha. I guess since everyone else is, I might as well share my team's robot names over the years:
2008: Myrtle the Turtle (robot was a simple, heavy chassis) 2009: Hunk o' Junk (robot was shaped like a trash can) 2010: Reccostobor ("robot soccer" backwards) 2011: FIRST Strike (just a creative name) 2012: Trickshot (Nifty basketball-related term) We usually just come up with something nifty or characteristic to our robot or the game. I guess we'll just have to wait and see if we can come up with something soon. :P |
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We had a few years where the robot name was actually a big thing. The plan was go from A-Z, alternating between male and female names that had something to do with the game for that year. 2009 was the last year a name really "stuck," and I can't even remember what the 2011 bot was (Felicity or Fiona, possibly) because we never used the name.
2006: Balzac (can't remember the reason for the life of me) 2007: Charlotte (spider field element -> Charlotte's Web) 2008: Atlas (based off of the cover for Atlas Shrugged; we had a lot of Ayn Rand...enthusiasts that year) 2009: Diana (Roman goddess of the moon) 2010: Erdős (after the mathematician of the same name) In theory, it was a good trend. In reality, names don't stick unless the team is enthusiastic about it. Naming your robot is a lot like naming stray animals...you get attached to them awfully quick. |
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We haven't come anywhere near picking a name for this year's machine, yet. Most of our robot names happen on accident; sometimes we choose them for a teamwide theme, sometimes it occurs based on performance/awards/events. Since we compete in two different annual tournaments, we have double the naming fun. :p
FRC: 2011: The Brave Little Toaster (Our very first FRC machine. I, personally, called it "Homeslice." ) 2012: Patriot Toaster (It looked like a patriot missile launcher, so our teamwide theme was military.) OCCRA: I'm not sure of any robot before my Freshman year. I joined the team Sophomore year, but I've heard many stories. 2009: Purple People Eater / H1N1 (Apparently they began with the PPE robot for the first four competitions, then tore it apart the day before the championships while our coach was in a staff meeting and nearly give him a heart attack when he saw the sea of parts lying about. H1N1 was the complete rebirth of PPE built in 9 hours, and was good enough that it took them all the way to the semifinals.) 2009 VEX: Spazzy (It had a bad receiver, so the robot would literally slap itself silly without anyone even near the remote.) 2010: The Tank (Named after our third tournament, when the thing had such a strong drivetrain that it overpowered two opponent machines pushing down on it while climbing up a ramp.) 2010 VEX: Spazzy Two-Point D'0H! 2011: Lucas (We had three human Lucases (Lucai?) on a team consisting of only 16 members that year, so naturally the robot had to be one, too.) 2011 VEX: Steve Spazzy the Third Jr. Jobs (In honor of Steve Jobs, but we still had to maintain the Spazzy legacy simultaneously.) 2012: Beautiful Beast (First year we've won Beautiful Bot, and that thing was positively ferocious!) 2012 VEX: Toast Patrol and Roller Toaster |
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Every year my teams picks a robot name with "MOE" in it.
These are some robot names we've used over the years: 2000 - Big MOE 2001 - Lil' MOE 2002 - MOE-Hawk 2003 - GeroniMOE 2004 - GizMOE 2005 - MOEbius 2006 - TerMOEnator 2007 - MOEzilla 2008 - DynaMOE 2009 - CozMOE 2010 - MOEmentum 2011 - PandaMOEnium 2012 - CoMOEtion We're in the process of naming our 2013 bot, if anyone has any 'MOE' names then send a message my way~! Let us know~! |
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The only names from my team I can remember are the Broominator (2008), and Ratchet (big bot) and Clank (little bot) in 2011. Last year it was named Antares, with a nickname "Blue Rhino." I think we'll be sticking with the star names this year.
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We named our minibot the Kraken. Release the Kraken had a nice ring to it. In reality it was somewhat less dramatic.
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However, annother senior did tell us to get Kraken one time... |
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We first give the robot a "working" name, before deciding on the real name for the year. This year's robot has a working name of "10 CIMs" because one of our students dreams of having a robot with 10 CIM motors. In the past, our robots have been:
2010--Wombot 2011--That's Not A Knife (T-NAK) with minibot Spoon 2012--MATE And The Engineers (MATE (gotta love recursion...)) 2012 offseason protobot--Dropbot |
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We're going to name it after the member of our team it most resembles. You might be surprised how possible that is!
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We name our robots after our team captain.
We take their name and make into a name similar but the opposite gender. Ex. Stephen is our captain, our robots name is Stephanie Julian is our captain, so our bots name is Julie |
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