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Names rarely get decided until after it starts coming together, usually around Week 5. For the most part the names have some significance, and are generally intelligent in nature.

The previous robots were named:

2002 - ARC (Amazing Robotic Cardinal)
2003 - Red Streak
2004 - Red Streak II
2005 - ARCTAN (no real story here)
2006 - MISTT ("Mr. I's Stupid Throwing Thing")
2007 - Sparky (after an unfortunate incident during build ...)
2008 - Ella Vader (Darth's sister)
2009 - Noisy Cricket (after the sound the ball kicker made)
2010 - Calctro (Latin for "I kick")

Can't wait for Week 5 to find out this one!

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Ha, our 2009 robot's nickname was Sparky, for the same reason...we now have EXTRA fire extinguishers because of it ;P

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2009 our team's robot name was GABEL. Something like gyroscopic...rest of the name. You'd have to ask a veteran who was on the team that year to get the full story. Breakaway's robot was Trigger. She was a friggen' beast. We got that name because we looked up awesome horse names, and the name Trigger sounded pretty awesome and western. (Metal Mustang Robotics -> Horse; Cowboy hats are our speciality)

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We vote on a name for our robot annually we even go as far as designing logos for the particular robot .
Most of the time the name features an X in it,

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This year, Team 1540 held a contest with the lower school (grades 1-5) at Catlin Gabel to help us choose our robot names. After sifting through over 230 submissions, the team decided to name our 2010 competition robot Lightning, and our practice bot Thunder. Each of the students who submitted those names with have their name engraved in the robot.

This is the first year we've tried this. In previous years, we've tried to name our robots in pairs.
(Practice robot name in parentheses)
2010: Pyro (Spy)
2009: Epic (Fail)
2008: Nemo (Dory)
2007: Fowler
2006: Free Ranger
2005: Rocky

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Its gonna be "REX 6" this year, since its our sixth year and sixth competition bot. Although we will probably pick a better one, previous ones included "REX 4 the Win" and "REX 5 is Alive!"

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We named it Samantha (Our leader was a guy named Sam) last year, Julian is the leader... It only makes sense to name it Juliana.

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We never named our robots in the past and we won't this year either.

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MOE votes every year on a robot name, that has MOE in it somehow. It may or may not have anything to do with the game theme. It's getting harder each year to find a good name, but I bet that the students will come through again. Suggestions welcome!

Our web team has done a great job of documenting these - pictures and descriptions can be found on our web page.

2010 - MOEmemtum
2009 - CozMOE
2008 - DynaMOE
2007 - MOEzilla
2006 - TerMOEnator
2005 - MOEbius
2004 - GizMOE
2003 - GeroniMOE
2002 - MOEhawk
2001 - Li'l MOE
2000 - Big MOE

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MickeyMOE and MiniMOE.

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Enforcement Droid, series 209; or ED-209 for short

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Last year, my team named our robot Sir Lancelot (going on the whole medieval theme because our school's mascot is a knight). We decided that year that we shall name this year's robot Sir Robin (as in Robin Hood--again, medieval theme).

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What is the purpose/significance of naming your robot?

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I think I speak for many teams by saying that naming the robot makes building the robot more personal. I think it is also true that we just like naming our robots.