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Re: Old Man Notices A Thing: Lots of Robot Names
In 2013, we named the robot Tyrannosaucer Rex because someone decided to decorate it like a T-Rex.
For 2014-2016, we have had fire-themed names 2014: DJ Fireball 2015: Phoenix 2016: CrossFire Some of the students called last year's practice robot "black market robot," but it was never official. This year's practice bot is just called the practice bot. We also currently have an additional practice defense bot name Tech-stinguisher. |
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I don't know if it's just me, but I've noticed a lot of robot names with variations on the word "scorpion" (see "scorpio" as well). Just hoping that we don't end up having an alliance with three robots with the same name
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Several of our robots have names that are not suitable for public consumption.
Not sure that helps but if you linger around the shop long enough you'll learn this tribal knowledge . |
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On our team, all our robots have names. In my time, we have had 2014) Gunny 2015)Jake and Elwood 2016) Mittens. It is honestly much easier at least from the team prospective to call the robots by their name (plus hilarious to hear Mittens called out by the announcer.)
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343's students always name our robots and we generally try to name them something relavent to that specific robot, for example our 2015 robot is named Armstrong, it has big arms, our 06 robot is named cyclone, it has a spirally thingy that brings the balls from the floor intake to the shooter. I personally love the robots having their own unique names that make them easily identifiable and it allows for "dedication" to someone as we have done twice, 2010, John O'Connor, JOC, a former student who died in a car accident, and 2007, Andre, the janitor who helped us out ALOT.
I will say that I do not remember the names of other teams' robots and refer to them simply by team number then year, however I do know the robot names for most of our 17 competition robots and I refer to them by name most o the time. |
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I have spoken to several alumni of other teams who refer to their teams robots by name in conversation. While the teams themselves are well known, stating the robot's name without a year for context means absolutely nothing to me. I may remember exactly what your robot looked like in 2010 but I haven't a clue what it was called.
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STORM Robotics has been going in alphabetical order since our sophomore year as a team.
2009: Stormy 2010: Brave Beckham 2011: Crimson Claw 2012: Donald Duct 2013: Electra 2014: Fonzie 2015: Genesis 2016: Hephaestus |
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From what I can remember...
1999: Crusher 2000: Cattywampus 2003: Little Box of Terror 2004: Monkey Business 2005: X-Factor 2006: Triple Threat 2007: Screwball 2008: Apex 2010: Serendipity 2011: Tower of Terror 2012: Echo Charlie 2013: Little Box of Terror 2 2015: DELTA 2016: Punch |
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We generally take nominations around week 4 of build season, when the robot design is mostly finalized, and then do a name vote a couple weeks later. The name is usually some sort of pun.
2016: R.O.U.S. 2015:Totedile 2014: Ballbasaur 2013: Panda 2012: Bowser's Castle 2011: Dr. Aughn 2010: Caspian 2009: Archie 2008: Eddie (Edward Scissor Lift) |
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We have always named the robot something Australian themed with the practice robot getting a "fun" name:
2010: Wombot 2011: That's Not a Knife (T-NAK) with mini-bot Spoon 2012 practice: Mothslayer 2012: MATE 2013 practice: 10Cims 2013: Ikara (throwing stick in an Aboriginal language) 2014 practice: Enterprise 2014: Maloo (thunder in an Aboriginal language) 2015 practice: Cockroach 2015: Kosciuszko (tallest mountain in Australia) 2015 WARC (China trip): Dapao (Cannon in Chinese) 2016 practice: Excali-plier 2016: Aragung (shield in an Aboriginal language) |
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Well, except for 2007, when we never came up with a robot name. Our 2007 robot was also the least successful robot we've ever had. We set our objectives too high, and never finished either of the major capabilities that we intended. (See Second-System Effect.) At the one and only regional we went to that year, we nearly exclusive played defense. Ironically, it was the highest seeding position (#3) we would ever have at a regular season tournament until our sixth year in 2010. (To this day, I don't know if we didn't name the robot because it wasn't deserving of a name, or if it was because we didn't name the robot that it didn't perform as intended.) In any case, since then, we've always named our robot! Quote:
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I remember back in 2005 our robot coach, Brittany and spirit leader, Lizzy really wanted to name the robot X-WhAAAt!?! (which horrified the mentors) and actively campaigned amongst the students to vote for that name which ended up winning (much to the mentors horror). Lizzie and Brittany actually came up with a cheer for the name and all sorts of idea and itt was our most successful robot ever. Previous robot names: 2005: X-WhAAAt!?! 2006 = XOX-Cat 2007 = X-Static 2008 = Xtender 2009 = Apollo X 2010 = X-Force 2011 = LegXXcy 2012 = Exxio Auditonimous 2013 = SphinX 2014 = Xcelente' 2015 = XCycler 2016 = Sir X Alot Last edited by Koko Ed : 17-12-2016 at 08:50. |
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I think robot names are nice when you are discussing past competitions - ex., "we used this type of motor for CamMOElot". It also gives new students a sense of a brand, a sense of the history of the team.
Each year MOE 365 has a contest to name the robot where the team votes on team members' name suggestions. (Also for team shirt designs, which is another thread.) The name must have MOE in it and hopefully, but not always, reflective of the year's theme. Examples: CaMOElot TerMOEnator MOEhawk DynaMOE After so many years, it is getting hard to think up names, but the students always come through! |
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Since a spammer decided to revive this thread...
I've been on a few different teams over the years, and each had its own method of going about it. 1293 (2004-2006): No particular pattern--it drifted around a few times. Bob, Ockham's Raizor (and Hockham), Chomp (and Circumstance) 1618 (2007-2009): By about 2:00 PM at my first event with them, with me nursing a sore jaw from the arm whacking me and the team deciding to rename the robot on the spot, the pattern was simple: whatever the malady was, at least until their final year when we decided to get stylish. 2815 (2009-2013): This might be the most notorious naming system in FIRST--to the point that when we gave our alliance partners shirts for picking us, they couldn't wear them to school. Y'see, 2815 was started at the University of South Carolina, home of the Gamecocks, where the fight song goes like this. Co-founder Stephen Kowski set the precedent of honoring the mascot in the robot name, and it just stuck until the team (after my departure) moved to the high school and rebranded for 2015. Cocked and Loaded, $@#$@#$@#$@#-A-Doodle-Doo, Cockasaurus Rex, Incocknito, Cocket Launcher 4901 (2014-2016): 4901 operated out of 2815's corner of the USC shop after they vacated. 2815 hadn't rebranded in 2014, and while both teams had the same garnet and black on that year we knew naming our robots the same way would be unabashed gimmick infringement. (And, frankly, we were having to veto more and more would-be robot names towards the end.) So we drew inspiration from elsewhere on campus. Sandstorm I, Sandstorm II, Sandstorm III |
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