Does your teams robot have an offical name?

[SteveJanesch]

Our team names our robot when it's complete, so 'bot08 is nameless so far.

Our '05 tetra-hoisting bot was Sir Lifts-a-Lot.
In '06, The Regurgitator could collect balls off the floor and power them into the lower goals (from the same chute, naturally).
Last year El Chupacabra used a nasty-looking stainless steel claw to pick up and hang ringers on the rack.

[SteveGPage]

In years past, we have always named our bot - (04) BOB, (05) Pedro, (06) Shorty, and (07) The BEEst, are the past 4 names. Yet despite that, we have always just been called the "Robobee" - this year, I think we are going to just go with that name and our Bee Hive (the pit) theme. Hopefully we will be able to compete with Buzz again this year. They can Buzz and we will be the Bee!

Best regards,

Steve

[Akash Rastogi]

I want to name hte robot this year. Never really done it before. One of the really old bots is affectionately called Cranberry though I think its anodized so its a weird cherry color, that's why. too bad this year we're not running on tank drive, otherwise Robotank would be an awesome name. We've had the "Rad Rad Robotank" logo on other stuff before as well such as the 2006 ball shooter.

I wish this was our robot name.

[apesquera]

HEY, our robot's name is THE FULMINATOR

[Schnabel]

HamTray!

[Cow Bell Solo]

Yep we named our robot, this year we named our robot "Schnel Bahn" which told from team mates from German say it means something like Fast track or Fast road, which is why we choose it. (we picked before the kickoff too). Last year we named our robot Ursa Major which is the bear constalation, and we are from White Bear Lake and our mascot is the Bear.

[D_Price]

Our robot has been named Charles after Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution. Our team name gives tribute to his theory of life and the fittest. Except we strayed a little from that concept a little this year and named it the Mantis...after the retracting arms that look like a praying mantis.

[JaneYoung]

Our robot's name this year is ZePHyr.

We always try to incorporate the PH (Purple Haze) into our names. This year we all contributed, discussed, and voted the name in our website forum. That way we got input from everyone who was interested and it helped prevent our teacher from choosing the name. The last couple of years' choices: Mary... we added PHender to go with it and then PHunky's Dilemma. (Mary PHender, yup.) But 2008 = ZePHyr. And that was before Kick Off. woohoo.

[Branden Ghena]

Team 240's bot is named NoodelKreig this year.

1) We have a foreign exchange student from Germany on the team.
2) Kreig means war in German
3) Our robot has pool noodles in its bumpers
4) Noodle in German is noodel
5) Noodelkreig (Noodle-war) was born!

[Jim E]

Our robot names tend to lean towards the robot's appearance.

1st yr. Rambot
2nd yr. Ballistic and Table Bot or Purple People Eater TRANSFORMED.
3rd yr. Phobos Robos with both RamRod andTable Bot TRANSFORMED.
2008: Track-a-pult.

[DGrohnke1023]

Bedford Express has named its robot each year. The past 3 years and this year we have named the robot after our coach Ellen Bacon.

2003-THOMAS (An acronym that no one remembers)
2004-The Yellow Dart
2005-Hurricane Bacon (or the Hurricane)
2006-The Ellenator
2007-Shake 'n' Bacon
2008-The Baconator

Also note that the robots with Bacon in their names have gone to the finals a combined 3 times while the one with Ellen saw only 1 quarterfinal. Because the robot is not a hamburger or in competition with hamburgers our research tells we should be OK using the Baconator as a robot name.

[Stuart]

1745
2006 Air-Raid
2007 Air-Raid II
2008 Gary(as in Sponge Bob)

[ZakuAce]

Originally Posted by Stuart

1745
2006 Air-Raid
2007 Air-Raid II
2008 Gary(as in Sponge Bob)

I hope that name is not a reflection of your speed

[Brian J. R.]

1983's naming scheme...

2007: Corsair, we are based out of aviation high school, who knew?
2008: Das Uber Stinktier, named in honor of our German exchange student, Ol' Skunky is going German this year.

[Beamer159]

Our robot's name is Zebe-Tod