Robot Names

[Joe J.]

2000: Zeus
2001: Johnny 5
2002: Ziff
2003: Ziff 2.0
2004: Loki
2005: Carlson X
2006: Icarus
2007: Boris (Practice Robot: Natasha)
2008: Thor
2009: Spark Plug
2010: Nova

[Taylor]

Our robot is named Mark Koors. In this forum, I think no explanation is necessary.

Years past:
2009 - Marvin (the Martian)
2008 - Homer (the Hippo)
2007 - Lollipop (our manipulator resembled a lollipop)
2006 - Lucky (fortune cookie read "Lucky is coming your way")
2005 - Critical Mass

[Cynette]

Rolling Thunder's 2010 robot is Thunderfoot!

[Stephen Kowski]

gameCock-a-Doodle-Doo! (minus the game in front of that, it gets censored otherwise)....Chicken theme, gamecocks theme

[hipsterjr]

Ours has always been Burn-E (like Wall-E) because we are the Burning magnetos. But we are thinking about going with a penguins of Madagascar theme and naming ours Rico this year.

[AcesJames]

2008-2009 - Son of Maverick
2007-2008 - Blackjack
2006-2007 - Ace of Spades
2005-2006 - PokerFace
2004-2005 - P.G.B.I.F. - AKA Probably Going to Burst Into Flames
2003-2004 - Mayday
2002-2003 - Wild Bill
2001-2002 - Ace - AKA Ankle-Biter
2000-2001 - Scorpion
1999-2000 - Red Baron
1998-1999 - Maverick
1997-1998 - Stevie: Son of Roy
1996-1997 - Roy
1995-1996 - Hook

As you can see, most of the names have something to do with either cards or airplanes, going along with the Aces High theme...Although some are just random names, and some have real names but then acquire nicknames, as is the case with Ace.

Oh, and for 2010, we've actually yet to pick an *official* name.

[sgreco]

My team doesn't have a name yet this year...but we will.

Our past names have been

2007 - JAWS
2008 - Ringo
2009 - Otis

[Abra Cadabra IV]

2008: Foothill Flyer 1.0
2009: Leviathan

We still haven't picked a name for our 2010 bot; votes are currently split between Captain Falcon and Excalibur. I'm pushing for Captain Falcon.

[AmoryG]

Our robot's name this year is ButtKicker 2010 edition. Just kidding, but the real name is equally bad...uh.... I love my robot, team, and country, but the name is just horrible. I wanted to name it Sqanto, but the team leaders (majority girls) decided on Elenor Dante Rigby 3.0.

[Joe Schornak]

2009 was Cthulhu.
We haven't decided for this year, but we are considering Ackbar and Mephistos, among other things.

[MrForbes]

Originally Posted by sgreco

Our past names have been
...
2008 - Ringo
...

heh...our 2007 robot was named Ringo

[JohnFogarty]

aha this isn't the official name but once we made the treads we named it the KILLDOZER nut the reference to kill was in it so our mentors said no, I think it's the FIRST Tank or the Magic Tank ?? lol

[scott]

Team Roboto's Robots

2010: ??
2009: Crushinator
2008: Pac-Man
2007: Zorak
2006: Big Ben
2005: Dr. J
2004: Schfifty Five
2003: Mr. Fantastic IV
2002: Unit 3
2001: Mark II
2000: Mr. Roboto

[EddiesCouch]

While mounting electronics, we came up with Ultimate Skippy Robot of Doom. It was originally going to be skippy because some drive train problems made the robot do something akin to skipping and I just tagged on 'Ultimate - Robot of Doom' to the end as a joke and everyone liked it. I'm not sure if it's official though.

This is our first year so we didn't have any predefined themes but after reading everyone else's response it sounds like a good idea to have one. If we do decide to have one I'll push Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy until it can be pushed no more. Hello Petunia!

[Novi Hopper]

Starting in 2002, 503 began naming our robots after our mentors to show our appreciation for all their dedication and work.

2001: The Wedge
2002: Guenther (Mr. Braeuner)
2003: Big Joe (Joe)
2004: Holy Manoli (Mr. Manoli)
2005: Harvinator (Mrs. Harvey)
2006: Sonic DeCello (Mr. DeCello)
2007: Hungry Hungry Hepler (Mr. Hepler)
2008: Pulverizing Pittel (Mr. Pittel)
2009: Shermanator (Mr. Sherman)
2010: Annageddon (Ann)