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hey guys... i was just wondering what all the teams out there are naming their robots, and how you came up with that name...
Team Paragon's 2010 robot is name is Scurvy... our first name was Capn' Hook because of the hanging arm and winch had a hook, and since our chassis looks like a boat we tried to go with a pirate theme... so we had to scrap the hanging part of our strategy because we were 8 pounds overweight and dropping the hanging mechanism killed 13 pounds off the robot... so we sat down and brainstormed some new name ideas (trying to stay with the pirate and boat theme). so we came up with the name Scurvy...

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Our team got blasted by the snowstorm here in VA, and we lost near a week of time... we decided to honor nature with a little help from the daily show and we now call our bot "Snowtorious B.I.G." :)

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'10: Hammer Head
'09: Luna Beast
'08: Ballfrog
'07: Tube-a-saurus

We try and decorate it to resemble some animal each year. We are also using a hammer :)

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10: Samantha... our Team leader is Sam, a guy... IDK who came up with that name... IDK if its official either

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I don't know if the name Hank has been approved yet by the team, but that's what we call him on these late build nights

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We named our robot Josephine lol dont ask why :o

2005: Bob
2006: Molly
2007: Larry
2008: Xena
2009: Frank
2010: Josephine

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Our team is sticking with the Wizard of Oz theme. Last year it was the Tinman. This year its The Wizard.

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Well our FTC bot is named International Harvester, after the song International Harvester by Craig Morgan. It's a country song and somehow we ended up listening to it and they say our team name (Rhode Rage) in the song. Needless to say it stuck.

Nothing like hearing the announcer of the match call your robot International Harvester :p

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We normally name our robots random things. The past 2 years have been Sasha and Ralph. I think Charles is this year's bot.

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Team 2502's name for our robot this year is "Simba" and I have no clue why. The marketing team started to use it and we thought it was very decent.

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We have been using the name of the MVF (Most valuable freshman) for the robots name.

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We're unoriginal with our names and just name it according to how many year's the team has been around after an "El Toro"

Unfortunately, this year will be El Toro XIII <-- bad juju

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Team 1540 (Flaming Chickens), tries to link our robots back to our name each year, with varying degrees of success.

2005 (rookie year) - Rocky
2006 - Free-ranger
2007 - Fowler
------ From 2008 on, we've built two robots, and named both the prototype and final----

2008 - Nemo and Dory
2009 - Epic and Fail (guess which one was the competition bot!)
2010 - Pyro and Spy

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Our robot is named X-Force.

Team members nominate robot names (they are encouraged to either have it with an X or Cat themed) and the whole team votes on which name they like best. X-Force beat out Xidane (which is a variation of the infamous French soccer player). The lead mentor had no idea who he was and when they found out he was eliminated altogether as a poor representation of what we stand for,

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We've always named our 'bot after either an important scientist/physicist or in honor of someone who contributed to our team.

This year it looks like Schrodinger, aka Dinger, is going to win out.

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2000: Zeus
2001: Johnny 5
2002: Ziff
2003: Ziff 2.0
2004: Loki
2005: Carlson X
2006: Icarus
2007: Boris (Practice Robot: Natasha)
2008: Thor
2009: Spark Plug
2010: Nova

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Our robot is named Mark Koors. In this forum, I think no explanation is necessary.

Years past:
2009 - Marvin (the Martian)
2008 - Homer (the Hippo)
2007 - Lollipop (our manipulator resembled a lollipop)
2006 - Lucky (fortune cookie read "Lucky is coming your way")
2005 - Critical Mass

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Rolling Thunder's 2010 robot is Thunderfoot! :)

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gameCock-a-Doodle-Doo! (minus the game in front of that, it gets censored otherwise)....Chicken theme, gamecocks theme

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Ours has always been Burn-E (like Wall-E) because we are the Burning magnetos. But we are thinking about going with a penguins of Madagascar theme and naming ours Rico this year.

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2008-2009 - Son of Maverick
2007-2008 - Blackjack
2006-2007 - Ace of Spades
2005-2006 - PokerFace
2004-2005 - P.G.B.I.F. - AKA Probably Going to Burst Into Flames
2003-2004 - Mayday
2002-2003 - Wild Bill
2001-2002 - Ace - AKA Ankle-Biter
2000-2001 - Scorpion
1999-2000 - Red Baron
1998-1999 - Maverick
1997-1998 - Stevie: Son of Roy
1996-1997 - Roy
1995-1996 - Hook

As you can see, most of the names have something to do with either cards or airplanes, going along with the Aces High theme...Although some are just random names, and some have real names but then acquire nicknames, as is the case with Ace.

Oh, and for 2010, we've actually yet to pick an *official* name. :ahh:

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My team doesn't have a name yet this year...but we will.

Our past names have been

2007 - JAWS
2008 - Ringo
2009 - Otis

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2008: Foothill Flyer 1.0
2009: Leviathan

We still haven't picked a name for our 2010 bot; votes are currently split between Captain Falcon and Excalibur. I'm pushing for Captain Falcon. :D

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Our robot's name this year is ButtKicker 2010 edition. Just kidding, but the real name is equally bad...uh.... I love my robot, team, and country, but the name is just horrible. I wanted to name it Sqanto, but the team leaders (majority girls) decided on Elenor Dante Rigby 3.0. :rolleyes:

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2009 was Cthulhu.
We haven't decided for this year, but we are considering Ackbar and Mephistos, among other things.

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heh...our 2007 robot was named Ringo

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aha this isn't the official name but once we made the treads we named it the KILLDOZER nut the reference to kill was in it so our mentors said no, I think it's the FIRST Tank or the Magic Tank ?? lol

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Team Roboto's Robots

2010: ??
2009: Crushinator
2008: Pac-Man
2007: Zorak
2006: Big Ben
2005: Dr. J
2004: Schfifty Five
2003: Mr. Fantastic IV
2002: Unit 3
2001: Mark II
2000: Mr. Roboto

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While mounting electronics, we came up with Ultimate Skippy Robot of Doom. It was originally going to be skippy because some drive train problems made the robot do something akin to skipping and I just tagged on 'Ultimate - Robot of Doom' to the end as a joke and everyone liked it. I'm not sure if it's official though.

This is our first year so we didn't have any predefined themes but after reading everyone else's response it sounds like a good idea to have one. If we do decide to have one I'll push Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy until it can be pushed no more. Hello Petunia!

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Starting in 2002, 503 began naming our robots after our mentors to show our appreciation for all their dedication and work.

2001: The Wedge
2002: Guenther (Mr. Braeuner)
2003: Big Joe (Joe)
2004: Holy Manoli (Mr. Manoli)
2005: Harvinator (Mrs. Harvey)
2006: Sonic DeCello (Mr. DeCello)
2007: Hungry Hungry Hepler (Mr. Hepler)
2008: Pulverizing Pittel (Mr. Pittel)
2009: Shermanator (Mr. Sherman)
2010: Annageddon (Ann)

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Team 2108 (Team Awkward Turtle) created a tradition our first year of naming our robots "Zippy" since we used so many zip-ties on the first robot (that's another story in itself...)

2007: Zippy T. Turtle
2008: Zippy T. 2
2009: Zippy 3 (Z3)
2010: Zippy 4 ("Zed 4")

The last two years, we have dropped the "T." part, and also created a nickname by which the team refers to the robot. This year, it was decided that since I am the captain and am English, and since the English pronounce the letter Z "zed", that we would refer to Zippy 4 as "Zed 4" :)

Rob.

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2010: Dr. Robotnik
2009: Trogdor
2008: Schnell Bahn (We chose it because we thought it sounded kind of cool, then we saw the game. What a coincidence!)
2007: Ursa (Our school mascot is a bear)

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This year our teams theme is Top Gun. So every person on the team has a call sign that goes on our flight suits. It only makes sense for the robots name to be Ghost Rider because that is the name of the plane in the movie.

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I'm pushing for "Power of H" or "Pinball Wizard", but nothing decided by the team yet. I guess there's a Big Bang Theory character tradition that would be broken, though.

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At skunkworks we have ( in the last 3 years) tried to tie in the skunk to our name

08 Das UberStinkTier (Super Skunk in German ...in honor of our German Exchange student Christoph!!) by the way .. none of the announcers could pronounce it correctly....

09 The Stench
10 Pele' le Pew

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only one of our bots that had a name that was actually used was
2009: Snuggles (it fit the personality :p )

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One word of warning I have to other teams: if you're making up a name for your robot, make sure you look it up to make sure it's appropriate. 10 pages of definitions on urbandictionary.com made our team realize that we needed a new name for our robot.

This year, we're planning to name the robot after our head mentor if it's really good. Otherwise, we're going to name it after one of our clumsy seniors (who enthusiastically volunteered herself).

Just wondering, but do any other teams name the components of the robot? This year our kicker is the Frying Pan (even though it looks nothing like a frying pan) and our pull up mechanism is the Off-Bot-Pro.

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We are using a spinner to "kick" the balls. Originally this was affectionately dubbed the "turtle flipper" but has since been renamed "the spinner of death" as we, when testing it at full strength (and not in its proper configuration) hit the ball in such a way that we almost hit one of the students in the head (he has good reflexes) and dislodged a ceiling tile.
I am not aware of any other named components on the robot, as of yet.

Rob.

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How about Spirit ? Like the tenacious Mars rover.

see http://marsrover.nasa.gov/home/index.html

--r

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Our previous robot names:
* 2010 - X-Force
* 2009 - Apollo X
* 2008 - X-Tender
* 2007 - X-Static
* 2006 - X-O X-Cat
* 2005 - X-WhAAAt?
* 2004 -Project X
* 2003 - X-Tinguisher
* 2002 - X-Caliper
* 2001 - DJ Sprocket
* 2000 - X2K
* 1999 - X
* 1998 -Bone Crusher
* 1997 - Gonzo
* 1996 -Hex-Cat
* 1995 - Thundercat
* 1994 - Archimedes
* 1993 - Wildcat
* 1992 - Tech-No-Nerd

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team 768 does not have the correct name. we thought about the junk yard dog since we used a lot of old parts :confused:

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Team 639's robot is named The Commander this year. We voted on a large number of ideas and narrowed them down to that.

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'09 bot was Fred (Frickin' Ridiculous Electronic Device)

This year we're proud to present Grace (Genuine Robotic Athlete, Communicating Epicness) and we're quite excited about her.

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We call ours Charles!

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last year's robot was named after our programmer Enmar, and was christened "Romar Mod 6" because it was modified six times.

This year we are still arguing about whether or not the robot is male or female.

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Ours is always Stitch ___ because we're from Hawaii...so we go with something people will recognize. So this year is Stitch 5 ^.^

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In years past, our robot has been called the "Black Knight"... now the team members are called "Black Knights".

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POI POUNDER X-our 10th year in FIRST.

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07-08 was the Faustinator, after our teacher-mentor Mr. Faustine. 08-09 was Warditron, after Ms. Ward. This year...has yet to be decided...

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We are the Dirty Birds and we thought this years bot looked like a bomb bot so we came to calling it the "Dirt" Locker from the Hurt Locker!

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Our school mascot is the Astros, after Alan Shepard, who went to our school. So this year we really wanted to emphasize that in our spirit, and it just sorta happened that our robot was space capsule shaped, so we have named our robot the Freedom 8 (Shepard's capsule was the Freedom 7)

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2009: Otis - in honor of Elisha Otis, of elevator fame. So named because of our ball elevator. The ball collector was "Hoover"

2010: Tommy - As in "Pinball Wizard". So named because of the plunger device in the ball kicker and the way our kicker "foot" resembles a bumper on a pinball machine. The mechanism that charges the kicker, fires it, releases the lift cable/mast and drives the winch (four separate functions) is the "Quadrophenia Device". However, once we installed the roll cage it got a second nickname - the Crusty Crab. There is a picture in "Robot Showcase" under "1918 NC Gears Week 5 Pictures"

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nice...Team Paragons main sponsor is OTIS Elevators

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Team TnT 280 has decided to permanately name the robot/s after one of our Founding Mentors - Jim Vandette - Mr. Vandette passed away Monday 2/15/10 after a long battle with cancer. So to honor our fallen hero we will be naming the robot for 2010 "Vandettenator 1"

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Um...I'll see if I can remember.

2006: Swervin' Mervin
2007: Thunderhorse
2008: Longshot
2009: Logan Rover

We're still picking for the 2010 bot.

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We've named our bot Ellis, in memory of our late programming mentor, Dave Ellis.

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We always have such long names for our bot (with the exception of last year, MadBot).

This year's robot: Kelly "The Beckham" Guitelman
named in memory of two friends of the team from our school who passed away last year, Jordin Kelly and Josh Guitelman.

And it's soccer this year, so who better to emulate that David Beckham? :p

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TangeR
Our robot has a tank look and we are the Robotigers so we combined tiger tank

www.robotigers.org

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Team 2333 from Sapulpa...

This year the robot name is CTRL+ALT+DELETE because we have decided to be computer themed this year :) That means our team name is now the Blue Screen of Doom and our motto is "You have encountered a fatal error."

Whoohoo! Blue Screen of Doom!!!

:D :D :D

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Team 3015's robot is named Robocalypse because we are big scary and DESTRUCTIVE!!! if you want to learn more about our team or see our robot head to http://www.rangerrobot.com/index.htm

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Team 3015's robot is called ROBOCALYPSE because we are big, scary and will DESTROY YOU ALL!!! If you want to see more head to the ranger website. (http://www.rangerrobot.com/index.htm)

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we at 1711 the raptors are unoriginal so we just add the iteration number of our robot


08 raptor
09 raptor 2
10 prototype raptor 2.5 (and protobot)
10 raptor 3

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Robocalypse

kom2012

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Our students have always come up with a fire-related name for our robots.

2007 Inferno
2008 Fireball (named after Fireball Roberts, a NASCAR star)
2009 Afterburner
2010 Pele (named after the Hawaiian goddess of volcanos, and the great Brazilian soccer player)

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How many teams have named their bot Chuck Norris? I hear at least one rookie team does it per year but i didnt see one last year (my first year).

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Our school mascot is the Viking, so we have used Norse Mythology:

2006 Odin
2007 Thor
2008 Brynhilde
2009 Loki
2010 Tyr

and speaking of Chuck Norris, we have named our promotional T-shirt launching bot:

Chuck Norse

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we named our robot THOR!!!

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MOE 365 has a process similar to the X-Cats for naming our bot each year. A list of names is developed and the team votes. Names all have "MOE" as part of the name.

2010 MOEmentum
2009 CozMOE
2008 DynaMOE
2007 MOEzilla
2006 TerMOEnator
2005 MOEbius
2004 GizMOE
2003 GeroniMOE
2002 MOEhawk
2001 L'il MOE
2000 Big MOE

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We have two this year the competition bot is Heather named after a school counsler who dies last year frim brain cancer. Her son is on our team. Our practice robot is Oscar who was one of the La Vida Robot 4 who beat MIT in the underwater robot comp. He has now been deported and has a wife and kid here in the US that are citizens. He has a degree in Mechanical Engineering and is now looking for a job in Mexico, Spain, or Canada. one of them is going to get a hell of an engineer that was trained in the US. Too bad for the US. We named the bot after him to honor his struggle.

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Funny, our robot was almost OTIS this year, although all caps. Funny, then someone on the team (a mentor) who hadn't seen the robot in weeks (yeah, I know, not sure how it happened, she's more business type, I guess) emailed saying the name was Striker.

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Team Phoenix (2342)

2008: Fenix1
2009: Special of the Day (our electronics board was made of a old sign board for a restaurant)

Thunder Down Under (3132)

2010: Wombot (It is an Aussie animal, and our robot looks a bit like a wombat.)

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Actually the team as a whole is called the Black Knights.

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2007: Failbot
2008: Forklift to Heaven
2009: Twist n' Shoot/Howitzer
2010: We have bigger issues to work out at the moment... :P

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Since our rookie year, our team has included "feet" in the name. This largely stems from the fact that we used mecanum wheels our first year, and named it "happy feet." For whatever reason we continued this our second year.

2007- Happy Feet (Mecanums, plus the movie of course)
2008- Sweet Feet (No clue.)
2009- Slippery Feet (Slick wheels, duh!)
2010- Big Foot (I know, not plural. Named for the kicker though!)

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1997: Thor
1998: TOBOR 1
...
2009: TOBOR 12 (We're clever :P)
2010: Tatorbot (We're still clever xD)

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Naming a robot is a little like naming a cat. Neither will come when you call, so why bother?

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Our team always calls the robot Rocky. I guess after Rocky Balboa. Weird cause we ive in Suth Jersy not Philly. But i'm not complaining.::safety:: :]

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Bootsy Collins

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El Chupacabra

Yep, oficially named today.

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176 is now considering both Crazy Legs and Dr. Claw for our name this year. Dr. Claw was suggested because our hanging mechanism resembles a claw, and Crazy Legs was suggested because we have articulating wheels, so when we pick up our robot, the wheel mechanisms tend to swing out and hit our knees as we carry it.

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yeah i saw your bot at your scrimmage anf love the hook system and articulating chassis

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we came up with a name right before ship, we decided to name our robot after the local college sports arena since its shape reminds us of it, our robot is named moby.

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The Arbalist.

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2003 - Simbot Sally
2004 - Simbot Simon
2005 - Simbot Kevin - Named after Simbot student Kevin Hines who passed away prior to the 2005 season.
2006 - Simbot Beckham - The 2006 robot had the ability to bend its shots in a similar fashion to English Midfield David Beckham, hence Simbot Beckham.
2007 - Simbot Prime - Named after the Transformer Optimus Prime, for the robot's ability to transform into a ramp at the end of the match.
2008 - Simbot SS - Named after the line of vehicles produced by the GM High Performance division.
2009 - Simbot Panthro - Named after the robot that was played by Simbot SS on the TV show Degrassi: The Next Generation.
2010 - Simbot Quatchi - Named after one of the 2010 Olympic Mascots

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The mother of someone on our team looked at the robot and said "He looks like an Oliver." So, all day yesterday, more than half of us were calling him "Oliver D-Fence". I don't think it's official.

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Team 2583's robot is called Grond (from Lord of the Rings), since it kinda looks like it in the front...at least when we built the prototype, and we kinda got used to the name.

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The Enforcer.

It's an inside joke. [:

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we named our robot Weeble after the Weeble-Wobble toy. the slogan of the toy is "weebles wobble but they don't fall down!", which is the function of our robot this year. we've designed the robot to self-right itself by keeping a low center of gravity and utilizing the bumpers so that our robot will not fall down if we lose balance driving over a hump, it will simply wobble its self right again.
Weeble may wobble but he won't fall down! :D

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I love how weeble overrided EVERY other option we had. I still hope our theme can be low rider. XD

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Team 1158, Eagle Corps Robotics, has named our robot Stryker in keeping with the soccer theme.

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During our second to last meeting (after losing 10 days to snow) we decided that we still needed to name the robot.

The 5 step program for naming a robot:

Step 1: boy or girl? "well it kicks balls; so it's a girl" (exact quote from a student)

Step 2: funny event or reference involving this? "Well Meghan kicked Carlton..." (Both students on team, thankfully an accident :rolleyes: )

Step 3: someone attempts to write "Meghan" on the robot but fails miserably with handwriting and writes "megHan"

Step 4: "megHan" is stuck on robot forever in Sharpie...

Step 5: Acceptance. "I guess it's megHan"

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GAMEOVER!!!!!!!.... is the name of our robot for 2010. Check out our hanging video on the robot showcase.
2009: Crimson Chaos (crimson paint job and red cathodes)
2008: Reign Of Terror (AKA "Reign Of Error")
2007: E-Wing (engineering wing at the school)
2006: Clementine (like the orange)

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2898's Roll cage makes the whole bot kinda like a big blue turtle...
So naturally we named our Leonardo. 1510's is red and named theirs Raphael, we just need an orange and a purple bot!

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Turducken

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our robot's name seems to be Otis Jr. because of the success of last year's robot (whose name was Otis.) They also both share the same blue paint color.

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Well We havent been thinking of a name much but i do think that a strong name has an impact on how you will do

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Ours is called GAGABot! The team wanted to name it as a "tribute-bot" to Lady GaGa. Why? I am definitely clueless on that one!

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Our robots from the beginning are named

06: No name just a robot.
07: Fire Pig
08: Walrus Pig
09: Bacon Delivery Pig (BDP)
10: Bacon Strips

We enjoy our names here at bacon good luck at competition

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Last year was Romar Mod 6 after our programmer Enmar.

This year it's Michelangelo after our mentor Mike.
:D

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2010: Striker Mk. I