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I guess MARS is kind of boring with their robot names.

08- Marvin I
09- Marvin II
10- Marvin III
11- Marvin IV (Beta and Alpha)
12- MarVin (Beta and Alpha)
13- MarVIn (Beta and Alpha)

Right before we traveled to our first (FIRST) competition our rookie year, a newspaper reporter asked us what the robot's name was while he was taking pictures in the machine shop. We had to come up with a name quickly, someone thought of Marvin Martian, and the name just stuck through all these years.

We've had some interesting practice robots and donated robots from folded teams in the area, including

Kick-me
Sparky (the one that caught fire)
Dumbot (our rookie year version of a practice bot)
Smartbot
ParadeBot (aka Marvin from our team logo) - Featured in the children's storybook "Marvin the Friendly Robot. He likes to play soccer, eat nuts and bolts, and sometimes he gets hurt, but his friends help him get better :D

We did an off-season intra-team competition a while back, where the robots were Phobos and Diemos. I think we had similar names for our minibots in 2011, but I can't remember.

While not necessarily a robot name, we named a particular part of our robot last year the "MARS Probes" because they "probed" a ball out of a corner.

In my opinion, our motto is pretty unique.
"We came to be inspired. We stay because we are. We will become the inspiration." It was slightly modified and used in the script when our mentor won the CMP WFA last year :')

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Team motto: Temptest Fuget (or Time flies if you don't speak latin)

Robot Names
2006: Stealth
2007: Stealth 2.0
2008: Stealth 3.0
2009: Stealth 4.0
2010: Stealth 5.0
(I bet you can't guess what our team name is)
2011: Audrey-after a student that passed away during the season
2012: Laurence-A sponsor who had be donating to us since 2006 had passed away. We decided to honor him by naming the robot after him. He is sorely missed by the mentors and alumni mentors on the team.
2013: Earnie(unofficially, the name was never added to the robot) This was based after my father, who the students absolutely adore, for letting us take over his mancave and shop for all of build season.

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Our team (Team 2485) name is the "W.A.R. Lords" so we name each of our robots after a War Lord. This year we named our robot after Sun Tzu, Chinese General and author of the Art of War.

Our practice robot's name is Paul and our robots name is !paul

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Our robot name this year is Vertigo

Our team motto is: "Work Hard; Think Harder"

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This year our team dedicated our robot's name to Kim Buckner, a beloved sister of our mentor and aunt to members on our team. She passed away the Friday morning of qualifying matches at SMR. We hope to make her proud this year in St. Louis!

Our team's motto's are:

-Glowing with Gracious Professionalism
-Passionately, Pursuing, Perfection to Catch Excellence

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Our names through the years:

2008: Bert (and our trackball was "Big Bertha")
2009: Didn't name it
2010: Sharkbait
2011: Sharkbait II
2012: Sharkbait III
2013: Mr. Scoops (After a mentor, Mr. Stukes, and a student kept pronouncing his name wrong)

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Our robot is always named with a Vegas theme, this year being The Dealer. We've also managed to incorporate a major sponsors name into a few robot names as well. pITTboss for ITT, and so forth.

As for the motto's, i can think of three that we love:
"How can we make this into a turret?"
"Is THIS your card?"
and the one that we prefer the most is "It's not enough".

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FRC 1640 is team Sab-BOT-age, in honor of team founder Paul Sabatino.

Our robots are named DEWBOT followed by a roman numeral. DEWBOT stands for Downingtown East & West robot. Downingtown school district used to support our team. Our current robot is DEWBOT IX.

The team motto is "Think outside the 'BOT".

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2014: Zygmont Crazy*
2013: Ragnarok
2012: RumbleBee

*The students on our team think it would be awesome to hear "Team 708 Hardwired Fusion driving - "Zygmont Crazy"

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For 451 we've tried to make our robot's name cat related recently. For 2013 our robot was CATalyst. As for mottos, "If you can't fix it with a hammer your'e thinking too hard." and "Don't give programmers shiny things." would both fit.
Past Robot Names(I don't know many of the origins)
2012-Mr Whiskers
2011-AC/DC[Alpha Cat(Main Robot) and Delta Cat(Minibot)]
2010-Kick Kat
2009-Apollo 451
2008-CATastrophe
2007-πr8
2006-Darkside
2005-CrazyEye
2004-PhilBot
2003-Project Mayhem
2002-Snarf
2001-Pabot
2000-Mo-Bot

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Our 2013 robot was originally named Murphy's Lawyer. We lost our first five matches at the Phoenix Regional. We changed the name to Stormageddon. We won our next eight matches.

Our practice robot was also Stormageddon. (We named it before we changed the competition robot's name.)

Our two Vex Toss Up robots were Kevin and Gary after two of our mentors.

Our NURC robot was named Tribble since the mission had a Star Trek theme.

Our 2012 FRC robot was named TiMMy after our sponsor TMM Precision.

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Ours Robot name is Evil Jimmy

And We are the Jokers so our motto is "Your wining card" :)

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One of the favorite joking phrases of my teams manufacturing group is:
Remember the three rules of American engineering:
1. Always use the right tool for the job.
2. A hammer is always the right tool for the job.
3. Anything can be used as a hammer.:D

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How have you not made use of the Fahrenheit 451 reference yet?