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My team, Team 3950, is called RoboGym. Original members were pretty big fans of Dodgeball, so our first robot is named Me'Shell. The second robot is named Steve the Pirate. I'm not such a fan of this theme, but I wasn't on the team for the first season, and I was in Italy when the second robot was completed and named.

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Our robot's name was reptar. It earned this after the first test of the pistons on our climbing arms. They slammed down, then back up again, over and over. The jerky movement of its tiny arms reminded us of a dinosaur, and so Reptar was born. The practice bot was known as reptard, by the way.

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Kinda wished we had a cool name for our robot. but you can say our summer motto is "Hot-glue doesn't fix everything but duct tape does!"

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2013 - Silverfish (They show up in inexplicable places where we work and are often the subject of discussion)
2012 - Immanis (Apparently some kind of killer spider)
2011 - Arm Bot (Yeah, we never got around to giving it a creative name)
2010 - Big Foot
2009 - Slippery Feet
2008 - Happy Feet
2007 - I don't remember, but it definitely had feet in it.

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(I'm on the same team as the OP) 240's currently working on a little practice drive bot that got named the Hobbot. Since the thread got revived, I figured I'd share.

Also, our 2012 robot's name ended up being Sheogorath. Beast'n was a close second.

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Each year, our robot is "The Hotbot" specified by the year. This year, we have revamped it completely as a new-team project for the off season, so we have "Hotbot13 v2.0"...I know...not too original, but our motto has always been: "My Bot Hot...My Bot Burn...My Bot on Fire!"

This year, with "v2.0" (and considering our "Chili Pepper" Icon) we've added the off-season motto "Twice the Spice!"

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Our team, Rosie Robotics, Names every years' robot Rosie. If we need to talk about past Rosies, We call 'em based on which one it is, the first being Rosie 1, Rosie 2, etc...

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This year's robot name is Xcelente' and our theme is No One Changes the World Alone.

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Typically my team names its robot something that just happens. Our Rookie year it was named "Sheldon", and I'm sure there was some story about it, but I don't know it.
Last year we named the robot "Kim", and dedicated it to the sister of our Lead Mentor (Mark Buckner, SMR Woodie Flowers 2013) who passed away during that same Smokey Mountain Regional. The award ceremony was very emotional, and we are all very grateful to Mark for continuing to be an excellent mentor while going through such a difficult time.

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I am very sorry for his loss. Our condolences.


On a slightly more positive note, our team (Team 2647 - Cyborg Mustangs hence the username) has a couple of things we often end up saying:
-'to alexia': to use excessive force to complete a task, often by damaging components
-'safety third': 'not changing the robot design' and 'keeping the shop clean' are (jokingly) considered more important
-'would that be good enough for Carl Hayden?': connotes desiring more precision than has yet been achieved
-the word 'slingshot' cannot be uttered in the workshop, due to an ill-advised design attempt last year
-we have 'taco thursday': raises morale!

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Well with our team it usually has to do with something that is unique about that robot. For example, for 2013 we used a lot of pop rivets, so we just named the robot rivet. But my favorite was for Rebound Rumble. One of the lead animators for Pixar (He worked a lot of Wall-e) came into our lab and gave a presentation. After that he signed our robot by drawing Wall-e on our shooter head, so we decided to name it Ball-e.

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Our robots name is Babou this year (an archer reference) and it is water jetted into our frame but covered up by our intake roller. Whenever we deploy our intake, it becomes visible and our whole team can yell "Is that Babou!!!!"

If you watch the show you will think its great, otherwise not really. Still a cool name though

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Last year's robot was named Paige after our Robovorski hamster (Robovorski's are usually called Robo Hamsters, hence the team name Robo Hamsters) lol

This year's robot is Paige 2. We came up with a funny "fuller name" for this year too, "Paige 2 - The Next Chapter". lol


http://www.petco.com/product/118347/...i-Hamster.aspx

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We use a boot-looking kicker to propel the playing piece, so 279's 2014 robot is named "Das Boot"

As far as motto's, it's more of a joke we tell the teams we're really good friends with...

"We'll see you on "Einstein!""