robot names
 

Here's the history of the POBOTS' robots from Plainview, NY:

2000: MR. ROBOTO- I wasn't on the team this year, but it was our first year in the competition. I'm pretty sure that's the name since it's pretty self explanitory. From what I've heard from the members from that year, there was A LOT of "Mr. Roboto" playing at night when it was being built.

2001: THE PHOENIX- The reason for this name is that at the beginning of this school year we didn't think that we were going to be allowed to do robotics in my school. The mythical history behing the phoenix is that it's a "bird" that was killed and rose out of the ashes to become better then before. This fit our team since we were part of the 2000 first place alliance in the Long Island Regional (so pretty much we were amazing :) ) and then we were told that we couldn't do it again :( ...but then we got approved and were on the 2001 winning alliance at the LI Regional too! This name was thought of by one of our advisors (publicity).

2002: THE BRAT- I don't really have much to say about this one, because it's for next year, but we're currently working on logos for pins and t-shirts and they look AMAZING so far. If anyone wants to take a sneak peak at one of THE BRAT logos, check out our website at POBOTS.COM

Our robot was named Lexy (BKA Sexy Lexy) in 2000 b/c it was all lexan on the outside. This year we name our robot Three Bits b/c that was the amount of space left unused in the controls programming.

~Angela who knows that the 2000 robot really was never named Lexy, just referred to as such by some of her team..but she won't go there..

2000's bot was named Isys....i have no clue why. 2001 we named our bot the capacitator....the seniors picked it, b/c it was an inside joke from their physics class. Atleast I had control over team name and logo. :D

~Mimi

The mayor Suggested that we name our robot the Spirit of Bakersfield. So we named our robot The Spirit of Bakersfield.

bot name
 

I had originally named the bot after our mascot "hornet"
but then I stated bringing my puppy to the meeting and workdays and the kids really really like him and they decidced to name himn the team mascot and name to bot after him

therefore ICKY BOT became the name


odd huh!?!


dahl
team497

our robot...
 

Hmm...the name of our robot. That would depend on who you ask I suppose. I think it was the Mechanical Marauder, because the Marauder (it took me a while to spell "marauder" correctly) is the school mascot. But, then that somehow became the team name, which was originally the ETs, which was something like the engineering technology society or something like that, but noone used it. Michael then named it a few different things, like, Swanzilla and Z Force, and so on and so forth. So, I don't know what the name really was...so, I guess I can't give a reason either. Michael's reasoning was it started in a "Z" position, and I had said that it looked like a swan when it moved across the field, but, somehow, people didn't find a swan to be scary. I can't imagine why not. :) They tried to make it a cobra, but that didn't fly, and I kept to my swan theory. Hmm...so I guess I had the robot of many names.

~Christina ºoº

What's in a name?
 

Swanzilla forever, baby! Yeah!

In my mind, there's nothing more terrifying than a giant fire breathing water bird :-)

~ Michael, who's mind seems to be really messed up.

1995: ET^2 (that's supposed to be squared): That was purely named after the sponsers.

1996: Ragnarock: from what I've heard, they named it that because of the loud sound it made when it shoved the 10lb. box into the goal at about 7mph.

1997: Aquatread: The robot that treaded water (the one with the flipper).

1998 - : Rhode Warrior: Named because our team represents Rhode Island wherever we go. Also, rhode is a homonym of road, so you can also get "Road Warrior".

sounds familiar....
 

Gee...

That robot name sounds really familiar.... :D

Same reasons....
Buzz Lightyear, Buzz Aldrin, alot of famous "Buzz's" came from the space program (or space movies) and because we work with engineers from a space manufacturing company....we called our robot Buzz!!

Steve A.

King Arthur
 

We named our robot this year King Arthur b/c of our animation theme was Robots of the Alliance Table (Knight's of the Round Table knockoff...) They were fighting to defend Gracious Professionalism. We had no name for our bot so we looked to our animation crew to get one :).

Re: sounds familiar....
 

To infinity, AND BEYOND! :p

CHAOS usually does not name our robots, but we did this year. It was called the Lucky 7 ...for the 7 years of partnership with Fleet and OSRAM...right now, 7 does not feel lucky