Naming the robot

[Kidney]

My team is having a ridiculously difficult time trying to name our robot something clever and game related, does anybody have any ideas?

[theawesome1730]

Maybe something Egyptian or Aztec related with the pyramids and all

[Koko Ed]

When we name our robot it either has to be with an X or cat related (X-Cats get it?) and combining it with this year's theme (Our theme this year is the FIRST Pyramid of Success) or the game helps.
This year we voted on SphinX as our robot name.

Previous Names:
2012 Exxio Auditonimous
2011 LegeXXy
2010 X-Force
2009 Apollo X
2008 Xtender
2007 X Static
2006 XoX-Cat
2005 X-WhAAAt?!?
2004 Project X
2003 X tinguisher
2002 Xcaliper

[Jay O'Donnell]

I would wait to have something come out naturally within your team. Maybe a certain part of the robot will define what you think of it. Our team name (PVC Pirates) came from our robot in 2004. Another one of our robots was named after a character from a show. Someone should come up with something good naturally after a while.

[Grim Tuesday]

We name our robot around the 4th week of the season, once there is something sitting on the table that looks like a robot. First, people write possible names on the white board for the morning of the session (we do this on a Saturday) and then by mid afternoon we have a list of about 100 things. We go through the list with everyone and require a number of seconds to let the name past the initial stage. After the preliminary ballot, we usually vote and if it is a close vote, eliminate all but the top two (or three if they are even) options then hold a second vote. That is then our robot name.

For reference, we ended up naming our 2012 robot Dr. Swoosh for no reason other than it was a cool name, 2011 Duck 'N Cover because it looked like a duck, 2010 The Commander after a mentor who was leaving the team and 2009 The Hurricane after the shape of it's helix...I could go on.

[holygrail]

We always name our robot after a character in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. This year, we are leaning toward The Killer Rabbit (our team mascot), or The Cave Beast of Aaarrrgggghhh. We haven't decided yet and will probably do so around week four.

[MrForbes]

Originally Posted by Grim Tuesday

We name our robot around the 4th week of the season, once there is something sitting on the table that looks like a robot.

That's how we do it too....and the names are usually rather strange.

Megamaid
Ring-O
TOM-1
Major Tom
Hank
Balthazar
Hughes

I'm sure it follows a theme, but I have no idea what that theme could be.

[Gray Adams]

I think ours look something like this over the years.

Top Gunn
G-force
G-force
G-force
G-force
G-force
G-force
G-force
G-force
G-force
G-force
G-force
G-force
G-force
G-force
Steakhouse Rodriguez

[dodar]

All 1592 did was just rotate between a boy and a girl name and then just thought of a game right name or just a cool name

2005: Bob(everyone names their first robot Bob)
2006: Molly(the team always listened to Flogging Molly at build meetings)
2007: Larry(named after a mentor)
2008: Xena(lead build mentor really liked the show Xena)
2009: Frank(we couldn't really think of a name)
2010: Josephine(because she looked like a cockroach)
2011: Tony and Rhoady(we nicknamed the main robot Iron Man and the minibot War Machine)
2012: Bonnie(Like Bonnie and Clyde, with Clyde being 801's robot)

[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by MrForbes

That's how we do it too....and the names are usually rather strange.

Megamaid
Ring-O
TOM-1
Major Tom
Hank
Balthazar
Hughes

I'm sure it follows a theme, but I have no idea what that theme could be.

I can guess the theme of 2008 and 2009

Like you guys, our robot names are also quite strange.

2009: Bison 1 (Team name was "Bionic Bison" at the time)
2010: Officially Bison 2, but no one calls it that. I usually call it "Power of H".
2011: Gene (KISS, get it?)
2012: Filibuster (Thanks, Jack.)

We have a strong candidate for our 2013 robot name that we will reveal once we're certain it makes sense with our design.

[BJC]

Our naming process is pretty straight forward: Buzz (insert year)

This year will be Buzz XVIII

In general though we hope the robot will speak for itself.

Regards, Bryan

[JCharlton]

I suggested "Humpty" for ours. Being Knights (King's Men) adds to the appropriateness.

[lorem3k]

We always name ours "Spooky #", this year is Spooky 10.

[EricH]

Seeing as the OP's team name is "Shrapnel Sergeants", I propose that their robot name should be "Sergeant ________", where the blank is filled in by something different every year. If it can't be filled in, use "Sarge" instead.


330 has had some unnamed robots, some named robots, and some named robots where the name was never recognized officially. "BeachBot", "BeachBot 2", "B2K", and "BeachBot 4.0" (1998-2001) led off, followed some years later by "Pedro" (2005), and some years later by "32" (2010), then "Skyhook" (2012). I don't remember any names being officially recognized from 2002-2004, or from 2006-2010, though the 2006 robot was tagged with a name for one match...before someone canceled it.

[moogboy]

Last year our robot was named Fromage. Actually it was Her Royal Majesty Fromage the Great. Fromage came from one day in the build season when we were weighing her and realized she was way overweight. We agree'd on swiss cheesing her, and someone said we should call her the swiss name for cheese.
After explaining that there are several official languages in Switzerland, we agreed on Fromage.

This year, the robot's name is WUERFELVERBINDER, after our Bosch cubic joints. It's also our team's new favorite word. Another part of our robot is named [EPIC VOICE]THE SPATULA OF DOOOOOM[/EPIC VOICE].