Robot names?

[Mr_I]

Names rarely get decided until after it starts coming together, usually around Week 5. For the most part the names have some significance, and are generally intelligent in nature.

The previous robots were named:

2002 - ARC (Amazing Robotic Cardinal)
2003 - Red Streak
2004 - Red Streak II
2005 - ARCTAN (no real story here)
2006 - MISTT ("Mr. I's Stupid Throwing Thing")
2007 - Sparky (after an unfortunate incident during build ...)
2008 - Ella Vader (Darth's sister)
2009 - Noisy Cricket (after the sound the ball kicker made)
2010 - Calctro (Latin for "I kick")

Can't wait for Week 5 to find out this one!

[Karibou]

Originally Posted by Mr_I

2007 - Sparky (after an unfortunate incident during build ...)

Ha, our 2009 robot's nickname was Sparky, for the same reason...we now have EXTRA fire extinguishers because of it ;P

[CalTran]

2009 our team's robot name was GABEL. Something like gyroscopic...rest of the name. You'd have to ask a veteran who was on the team that year to get the full story. Breakaway's robot was Trigger. She was a friggen' beast. We got that name because we looked up awesome horse names, and the name Trigger sounded pretty awesome and western. (Metal Mustang Robotics -> Horse; Cowboy hats are our speciality)

[Koko Ed]

We vote on a name for our robot annually we even go as far as designing logos for the particular robot .
Most of the time the name features an X in it,

[hg273]

This year, Team 1540 held a contest with the lower school (grades 1-5) at Catlin Gabel to help us choose our robot names. After sifting through over 230 submissions, the team decided to name our 2010 competition robot Lightning, and our practice bot Thunder. Each of the students who submitted those names with have their name engraved in the robot.

This is the first year we've tried this. In previous years, we've tried to name our robots in pairs.
(Practice robot name in parentheses)
2010: Pyro (Spy)
2009: Epic (Fail)
2008: Nemo (Dory)
2007: Fowler
2006: Free Ranger
2005: Rocky