Where did you get the name for your robot?

[Briansmithtown]

Just wondering how does that run come up with a name for the robot, for my year, 2014, it was so simple, and kind of funny. We were watching videos in the robotics room, and a cheetos commercial came on. We were watching it, right at the end, about 25 seconds, The cheetos guy said "bull's-eye" and that's where we got the idea just like that. It fit perfectly. http://youtu.be/HqQZH4Q6UNc Skip to 25 seconds

[GeeTwo]

Nothing quite so neat for us.

First year: simply a Leet spelling of the school mascot: T1G3R, which ultimately goes back to the legendary ferocity of a unit of the Louisiana militia which fought for the Confederacy in the 1860s. The "official" name of the robot each year has been to raise this to the second, third, or fourth power.

Second year: no nickname, simply T1G3R².

Third year: Our prototype robot was literally framed in 2"x4"s and 2"x2"s, and (mentor) Lester began referring to it as "Woody". Someone used a soldering iron to burn "Andy" into the wood. When we built the competition 'bot with a much cooler aluminum and steel frame, and we included some green LED lighting into the "shoulders", naming it "Buzz" was a natural.

Fourth (latest) year: We had decided that pre-build that we would build "twin" robots. Early in the process, we intentionally asked for names, at a mostly programming meeting. At that point, the prototype robot was named Atlas, and the competition robot Peabody. Unfortunately, the names got assigned to the radios, not the robots. Like many sets of twins through the years, no one at this point is really sure which was really Atlas and which was really Peabody, or even whether the one we used at competition is the one we're now using for demos, or is the one we mostly disassembled.

[asid61]

El Toro XVIII was our latest, I believe. We just add another numeral each year.

[wilsonmw04]

Cheese.

[Koko Ed]

We voted on it.
Every year we have team members submit candidates for the team to vote on (we prefer cat themes or with an X in it).
This year's winner was XCycler.

[marcusbernstein]

Our robot this year was named "Rampage" because of the backloading ramp we had. By far the best robot name we've ever had is "Swagin Dragon" in 2014.

[JohnFogarty]

The main sponsor of the Garnet Squadron is the University of South Carolina Engineering School and in kind the university is known for when we play football the school plays Sandstorm to amp the crowd up for kickoffs. It's actually a signature song at Carolina and not only that it's popular to hear at FRC Regionals obviously. We've named our robots for the last two seasons Sandstorm I & II respectively (There was even a Sandstorm 0 during our pre-rookie season). Whether or not we continue that naming convention this year will be decided by our students come January.

[Clem1640]

We started as a team for the two Downingtown PA High Schools: East and West. So our robot is named DEWBOT for Downingtown East and West roBOT.

We are no longer affiliated with the Downingtown School District, but we've kept the robot name.

[hectorcastillo]

2011: Hiking Viking - named after the team's driver who was from Norway
2012: Admiral II - named after the former San Antonio Spur David Robinson, nicknamed the Admiral
2013: Twister - named after the the helical mechanism used to bring disks up from the ground to the shooter
2014: Sky Shot - I honestly have no idea. Probably because it shot the ball
2015: El Toro - named after the robot's resemblance of a bull getting ready to charge

[Jalerre]

2014: Smaug - we thought it fit well with our team name (FIRE) because Smaug is a dragon
2015: Debbie - it comes from the Spongebob episode where he finds the seahorse
"She seems mysterious, so I'll call her Mystery. Come to think of it, she also seems graceful and majestic. Maybe I should call her Grace, or Majesty, or Debbie."

[Sperkowsky]

2014 - Oregon trail - named it that because of the dome over the electronics that made it resemble something off it.

2015 - Dozer Jr. - named in remembrance of our lost friend

2015(off-season WIP) - Dozer Sr. - intended to be our lost friends father. Bigger, more powerful, but not as cute.

[mrmummert]

Over the years we've had different names for different reasons.
2005..."MB" a student suggested "MB" for mechanical Bronco.
The school mascot is a Bronco horse...later we remembered that
the initials of the students name that came up with the idea were
the same...Mills Babb...go fiqure.
2006...We had so much trouble getting it to run right we ended up
calling it "Trouble"...odd thing is its been running like a "Timex"
watch ever since and its still going today...even after they ran the
thing off the stage at the high school.
2007..."Bleep" One of the students came up with the idea since we
couldn't use a Cuss word for it.
2008...never had a name...and didn't make it to finals. Oddly over the
years every robot we name makes it to finals and those we don't...
don't go to finals.
2009...did not build that year.
2010...no name....one of the mentors keeps calling it "the robot that
shall not be named" sorta a Harry Potter reference.
2011...."Bleep Jr."....named this because it was so much like the
2007 robot.
2012...."Trouble II" because it was a little like the original
"Trouble" and game.
2013...."Secretariat" for a couple different reasons...It was
a horses name which fit in with the school mascot...Also
it was the name of a famous winning race horse and lastly
it was the name of the goofy horse that used to show up on
the old Craig Ferguson show. "Whos at the door?"
2014....This one was named after me in a way as a joke and also Frank
Merrick. One of our mentors kept calling me "Frank" in stead
of "Hank" by mistake...We decided to call it "Frank" because
of that mainly...but also "Frank Underwood" from "House of
Cards" became popular that year and it fit and when we went
to Worlds Frank Merrick visited us in the pits and signed it.
(Woodie signed it too! He had signed it earlier at VCU)
2015...."Todd"....for a running joke we've had with team 2363.
Their main scout was a student whos first name is "Todd" and
sometimes he didn't want to pick us for finals...then oddly we'd
go on to beat 2363 in finals. This year we finally played with
them in finals at VCU and won.

[Christopher149]

Francois, after Francois Castaing.

[BenGuy]

Our robot names and reasoning... (keep in mind team name is "The flying toasters"


2011- 'Brave little toaster' - it was our first year as an FRC team.

2012- 'Patriot toaster' - we ended up using (from coincidence) a lot red, white, and blue parts.

2013- 'Pop Tart' - after Worlds, our driver while we were unloading the robot said "let's call it pop tart" and it stuck.

2014- 'Pizza Bagel' - again, after our last competition, we just decided to call it pizza bagel while unloading for the last time. Just because...

2015- 'Daedalus' - Reason 1: Greek God 'Daedalus' was locked in a tower and had to build a pair of metal wings in order to escape (we are the Flying toasters and the toaster in our logo has metal wings).
Reason 2: Dota (cool item, high damage, ect.)
Plus it's just a cool name...

[SamcFuchs]

Originally Posted by BenGuy

Our robot names and reasoning... (keep in mind team name is "The flying toasters"


2011- 'Brave little toaster' - it was our first year as an FRC team.

2012- 'Patriot toaster' - we ended up using (from coincidence) a lot red, white, and blue parts.

2013- 'Pop Tart' - after Worlds, our driver while we were unloading the robot said "let's call it pop tart" and it stuck.

2014- 'Pizza Bagel' - again, after our last competition, we just decided to call it pizza bagel while unloading for the last time. Just because...

2015- 'Daedalus' - Reason 1: Greek God 'Daedalus' was locked in a tower and had to build a pair of metal wings in order to escape (we are the Flying toasters and the toaster in our logo has metal wings).
Reason 2: Dota (cool item, high damage, ect.)
Plus it's just a cool name...

IIRC, Daedalus isn't a god. Cool name though. That man was quite the engineer.