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Re: Old Man Notices A Thing: Lots of Robot Names

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Originally Posted by Andy A. View Post
Our team name, in fact, comes from a corruption of a robots name. We had named our 2000 robot after Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, but somewhere along the line it got garbled by announcers into Grasshopper. The team rolled with it since it was as good a team name/mascot as anything, even going so far as to paint a grasshopper on the side of the robot. It's not quite a moth stuck in a relay, but I like to think Adm. Hopper would have approved of the connection.

This is being listed as one of the cooler stories I learned last weekend at UMD.
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