Does your teams robot have an offical name?

[David Hoff]

Precision Guessworks, Team 1646 named our robot Scorponok since it somewhat resembles this character form the movie Transformers.

[joycecutliff]

we're thinking blitzkrieg (lightning war) because we have a german exchange student on the team

[AdamC]

We're in a real toss-up between The Spicy Phoenix....or Cupcake.

[EOC]

Jaws

[legotech25]

Our robot is named Philbert, which was a nickname for a beloved mentor who recently passed away.

[Kittybot]

To my knowledge, our team has had the following names for robots that I can remember from them talking about them.

Critical Mass- 2005 robot
Lucky- 2006 robot
Lollipop- 2007 robot

Our robot this year is named Homer, not saying why.

[Torboticsmember]

Our Robot's name last year was Vortex H-01, because our team mascot is the Tornadoes and were from Hammond and it was the first one. And it sounded cool
This year we are naming it Vortex H-02. Hopefully after next year they will retire the Vortex name because nobody on the original team will be there after next year, except for the mentors.

[Jherbie53]

Originally Posted by AdamC

We're in a real toss-up between The Spicy Phoenix....or Cupcake.

Cupcake sounds really good.

I think its this, but I'm not really sure, that as long as we've been Built On Brains He has been called BOB. Every year it changes to old BOB and New BOB. This year was different though. We usually just keep last years BOB around until after the Championships or the next fall, but this year we had 2006 BOB until a week or two ago. Then it was old BOB (2007) and shooter BOB (2006). We usually don't start calling him BOB until he starts taking shape.

He really does have a personality. I remember in my senior year (2005) his drive train would always "jump" every time we turned him on. Then the next year when we started getting to the programing and driving time we where expecting him to "jump" again. It worried us the first couple of times when he didn't, but it's easier to work on him when you don't have to block him up off the ground for testing in the pits.

[waitwhat?]

In 2002 our team had dubbed our robot "Maximus" taken from the film "Gladiator." It went perfectly with our roman image. From then until 2006 we had just called our robot Maximus or Max for short. Then we changed our image and have decided to call our robot MAC standing for the first letter our highschool, our machine shop and our main sponsor. Middlesex highschool, Ansun protective metals, and Cordis corp. MAC

[Alalea]

I personally want Atlas, but are teacher dude wants the name of Speed Racer's car...

Are first robot was Sparky. Every robot we've made has had a piece of Sparky.

[jimmythetulip22]

Wow, I had no idea that this many teams named thier robots...

I guess we'll have to come up with a name for ours!

[Speeder]

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Because Team #316 is comprised of students from different schools in Salem County NJ, the LuNaTeCs name their robot ‘SAM’, the acronym for Salem’s Awesome Machine.

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[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.