Does your teams robot have an offical name?

[jimmythetulip22]

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!

[sportzkrazzy]

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.

[Koko Ed]

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f3...edballlogo.jpg

[wendymom]

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.

[Matt H.]

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.

[Sunshine]

Helio

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

That was 973's name in 2005.... good choice...

973 has yet to pick a name for this year, but the current top 5 choices are;

ARMageddon
Armbidextrous
Tiger
Tiger Claw Massacre
Pumpkin Head

[Alan Anderson]

TechnoKats robots have always had an official name. Since I've been a part of the team, we've had KatsKlaw, Skyhook, Katapult (redubbed Katawheel after we replaced the ball shooter), and RackStar. So far as I know, nobody has yet suggested a name for our Overdrive robot.

[Greg Peshek]

Vierlinge
(Prounounced Fear-Ling)

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

-Greg P.

[commodoredl]

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

[akash155]

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

[IndySam]

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.

[armoredvehicle]

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.

[Joe J.]

Lightning Robotics 2008 robot is named Thor.
He is preceded by
Boris
Icarus
Carlson X
Loki
Ziff 2.0
Ziff
Johnny 5
Zeus
from 2007 to 2000 respectively.

We choose our robot names through popular vote of the team in either November or December

[bduddy]

Our robot always ends up with a name in the event programs, but no one knows how it gets there... >_>

I think the team mentors/teachers essentially decide on ours. Maybe I should try to change that...