Old Man Notices A Thing: Lots of Robot Names

[Ari423]

423 has a tradition of letting our mentor's daughter choose the robot's official name. She is pretty young, so they are usually things like Bunny, Fluffy, or Pickles. Its funny to hear the MCs say the names of the robots and they're like "and on the Red Alliance, The Destroyer, Beast Bot, and Fluffy." They are often chosen before kickoff, so they rarely describe the robot well.

Since the name doesn't describe the robot, we also tend to give our robots nicknames based on their appearances. Some notable ones include: Fish Tank (it was basically a tall square frame wrapped in clear plastic), Toucan Looking Backwards (the intake looked like a toucan's beak facing backwards), and Arm Bot (basically a hunk of aluminum with a giant arm on it).

Originally Posted by Carol

The name must have MOE in it and hopefully, but not always, reflective of the year's theme...After so many years, it is getting hard to think up names, but the students always come through!

Not sure if 365 is aware of this but since 423 is always next to you in the pits we like to come up with alternative names for your robots. Some of the better ones I can think of off the top of my head are: The DeMOElisher, MOE Money MOE Problems, MOEstradamus, and MOEnetary Compensation. If you ever manage to run out of robot names, just hit me up.

[Foster]

Originally Posted by Carol

Examples:

CaMOElot
TerMOEnator
MOEhawk
DynaMOE

After so many years, it is getting hard to think up names, but the students always come through!

I love the MOE names, I know they work on it, but it's so cool to see the names.

My home FRC team, Sab-BOT-age, calls robots by number, this year will be DEWBOT XIII. It's great, pay homage to Downingtown East and West robotics. And I love the number, it's like yes, we've built a number of these robots and every year they get better and better.

[HolyDollar]

Our team has been naming our robots since our inception, simply because we find it fun, and like someone else mentioned earlier, it gives each robot its own personality in a way. We usually name our robots after some silly joke someone makes, such as our most recent robot, which was named "Richina". This happened because there are literally 3 mentors on our team with the first name of Rich, and some of my teammates wanted a girl's name for once. As a joke, someone suggested "Richina (The female version of Rich)", and it stuck.

I think having robot names can be helpful, assuming everyone in the conversation knows the robot you're talking about by name. Within our team, it is helpful because we're still a pretty young team and most of us have been involved since the beginning, so we know basically everything there is to know about the robots. However, in the event that not everyone knows a robot by name, then that could lead right back to the original problem.

[GreyingJay]

Interesting thread.

I do think robots should be named. It's fun. However, when referring to other team's robots, we generally just refer to the team number and the game. It would be too hard to also remember robot names and correlate them. For example, I would refer to "1114's Recycle Rush robot", not "Simbot Sideswipe".

We named our first robot (for 2016 Stronghold) "Mergius Maximus" and I suspect our future robot names will try to play with the "Merge" theme. We'll see how well that works

[RoboChair]

Back in 2009 when 1678 became Citrus Circuits we have been naming our robots after citrus in some fashion.

2009: Lemon Squeeze: Juice Master 1678
2010: Orange Crush
2011: Optimus Lime
2012: The Juicer
2013: The E-Lime-O-Nator
2015: Lemon Drop

We have had 2 memorially named robots in the last few years.
2014: Beca, named for my late wife.
2016: Adrian, named for a former team member turned mentor of the team.

I've got some good citrus themed names I've been wanting to use for years saved up.