Old Man Notices A Thing: Lots of Robot Names

[Ben Wolsieffer]

Personally, I remember robots mostly by their team number and year (ie. 254's 2014 robot). I couldn't tell you its name, and I even already forgot that 118's robot is named "Arsenal" this year.

[Lil' Lavery]

With the exception of 2006 (rookie year), Dawgma has given each robot a unique name. I still end up calling any of our robots that shoot things 'Darryl' (our 2012 robot's name).

[ahartnet]

Made me realize something interesting...I'll remember our own team's robots names, but generally refer to other teams robots not by whatever they named it but by *team name - game concept/year*. But if I tried to refer to a robot that I was a mentor for by the game concept - I'd probably have to think longer about it and get mixed up. Usually robot names are referencing a feature of the robot or an inside joke on the team relevant to that year.

The only exception being #printerbot.