Does your teams robot have an offical name?
 

I was just curious if any teams give the effort to actually give a name to their robots, and if so why did you name your robot that?

Our robot (team 2189) is still without a name!

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Yeah Team 1592 has

At first we started out with a random guy name-Bob
Then we went to Molly because of froging molly
next it was on to Larry because one of our past mentors named Larry passed away.
Now it is Xena because we has to continue the girl guy pattern and we thought that we could stick up to the name having a tough robot and all.

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This years bot has been dubbed Walrus Pig......if you look at the pics you can see why......O and they want to be able to sing the song.

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While we have never voted on team names almost all of our robots have been given ad-hoc names which stick and end up being used on our website.

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Helio

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Vierlinge
(Prounounced Fear-Ling)

Means quadruplet in German, which is kind of the theme of things on our robot.

-Greg P.

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Ours is officially named "Marvin" as in the Paranoid Android, but we usually just call it the robot or the boot.

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Our robot is named Occam VIII: Yottabott. We name every one of our robots Occam <number> starting with Occam 1 back in 2001. The name is in honor of William of Ockham and his Razor ('simplest solution is the best'). Then, our robots get a yearly surname; last year's surname was 'Deadline,' for example. The Yottabott surname is play on words that is only really funny to me (its pretty cheesy). Yotta happens to be the SI prefix for 1000^8 (10^24), and comes from the Greek word 'okto,' meaning eight. So, since it is our eighth robot, Yottabott seemed fitting.

To pick names, we usually just have a meeting where anyone can propose ideas and we have a vote for which one we like the most. Some names are nixed before going to vote for various reasons... 'Psychedelic Attack' is an example of one thrown out this year, due to drug-related connotations. This year, we also paired up team mottos with robot names and voted on them as a single unit. The runner up to Yottabott w/ the motto "Yotta brains, yotta brawn, notta yotta time' was The Razor (an occams razor reference) with the somewhat tounge-in-cheek motto "Raze the Bar" (I guess it is only funny if you are familiar with the 2004 game, but we thought it was humorous).

In conversation we usually don't use the surnames. We just use the numbers (which handily coincide with the year of the competition) and say something like 'Hey is 3 ready for a demo or should we get 6?"

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We decided on the name Talon as a team. At first I thought it was sorta generic but after seeing all of the innovative and interesting things my team has managed to do with it, I am very proud of the name

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Two years ago it was Wazoo (because we had balls comming out of our Wazoo)

Last year it was Randy, named after our long serving and dedicated team sponsor.

We still refer to these robots by their names.

Couple of ideas floating around for this years robot. None are final yet.

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1618 has only named its robots since I joined the team last year, and even then it only really got underway late in the build period. The working title for last year's robot was "What Robot?", but the name was quickly changed to Uppercut at lunch on Thursday at Palmetto, for reasons painfully obvious to my chin.

The two robots the team built before my arrival are nameless; we usually refer to them as "the oh-five robot" (or what's left of it--not much) and "the oh-six robot" (which is still physically assembled, but hasn't been driven once in almost two years to my knowledge).

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Super Uper Mark IV

(Last year's Mark III was dubbed "The Sky Crane" by the announcer at Buckeye last year :P)

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We have come up with a name, and it is ...

"Fetish": Two years ago at a pre-season scrimmage our teacher decided to call our robot fetish. So now we have decided to name our robot "Fetish", in honor of our teacher.

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Ours is always named either the Kil-A-Byte or Kil-A-Bot. Haven't decided which this year.

Although, at the 2006 debut of our autonomous scripting system dubbed RALFF (robot autonomous language for first) many people had the misconception that our robot was, in fact, named Ralph since every autonomous period our team cheered for ralff. Really rocked my socks that our team was cheering for a few Kb of code... :]

-q