Naming the robot

[falconmaster]

We name ours after people who done a lot to help us or that inspire us. This year ours is named Ingrid's DREAM. Named after Ingrid Tay, a former team mate who graduated from ASU with a 4.0 gpa in mechanical engineering on top of being undocumented. An outstanding feat in itself for a normal student, much less an undocumented one. The DREAM is for the dream act which our team full heartedly supports! Hopeful it will pass in congress and the senate this year....

[Darth Drew]

Originally Posted by moogboy

This year, the robot's name is WUERFELVERBINDER... It's also our team's new favorite word.

WUERFELVERBINDER, WUERFELVERBINDER, WUERFELVERBINDER, WUERFELVERBINDER, WUERFELVERBINDER, WUERFELVERBINDER, WUERFELVERBINDER, WUERFELVERBINDER... best name ever.

[DampRobot]

Animals. Always animals. We usually decide based on what the robot looks like. Awesomeness of the name seems to be directly proportional to robot performance.

Starting in 2007:
Tubasaurus
Ball Frog
Luna Beast (or Balrus)
Hammerhead (or Ball Shark)
G-Wrath
Kracken

Our 2007-2010 robots (left to right):
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/34912

[Kidney]

These are some interesting responses, haha. I guess since everyone else is, I might as well share my team's robot names over the years:

2008: Myrtle the Turtle (robot was a simple, heavy chassis)
2009: Hunk o' Junk (robot was shaped like a trash can)
2010: Reccostobor ("robot soccer" backwards)
2011: FIRST Strike (just a creative name)
2012: Trickshot (Nifty basketball-related term)

We usually just come up with something nifty or characteristic to our robot or the game. I guess we'll just have to wait and see if we can come up with something soon.

[AnimeOtakuStar]

Every year my teams picks a robot name with "MOE" in it.
These are some robot names we've used over the years:

2000 - Big MOE
2001 - Lil' MOE
2002 - MOE-Hawk
2003 - GeroniMOE
2004 - GizMOE
2005 - MOEbius
2006 - TerMOEnator
2007 - MOEzilla
2008 - DynaMOE
2009 - CozMOE
2010 - MOEmentum
2011 - PandaMOEnium
2012 - CoMOEtion

We're in the process of naming our 2013 bot, if anyone has any 'MOE' names then send a message my way~! Let us know~!

[cadandcookies]

The only names from my team I can remember are the Broominator (2008), and Ratchet (big bot) and Clank (little bot) in 2011. Last year it was named Antares, with a nickname "Blue Rhino." I think we'll be sticking with the star names this year.

[jimwick]

We're going to name it after the member of our team it most resembles. You might be surprised how possible that is!

[Peyton Yeung]

We usually name our robot circa week 5 when the first robot is done. It typically is named something relating to our theme but since we are opting out of a theme this year it will probably be something game related like DISCovery or something

2012-elwood and haynes (city of firsts theme)
2011-mariokat and eXXcelsior (videogame theme +our 20th season hence XX)
2010-batrobile (super hero theme)
2009-jake and elwood (blues brothers theme)
2008-I don't remember
2007-rackstar and starlet (rock and roll theme)
Etc

[CalTran]

Well, there's the Hammond way: Beast.

Our team, since 2010, has stuck with horse names. Trigger, Shadowfax, and Epona.

[ehfeinberg]

My team always comes up with some rather interesting robot names. They are often named after a key part of the robot.

2012: Bowser's Castle (The turret looked like a toilet seat and the rest of the robot looked like a castle)
2011: Dr. Aughun (The robot looked like a dragon, so dragon, Dr. Agun, Dr. Aughun)
2010: Caspian (Because we could)
2009: Archie GhettoBot III (Originally was named Archie, but then we used a lot of duct tape between competitions to completely change the design 3 times)

[Pauline Tasci]

We name our robots after our team captain.

We take their name and make into a name similar but the opposite gender.

Ex. Stephen is our captain, our robots name is Stephanie
Julian is our captain, so our bots name is Julie