I was just curious if any teams give the effort to actually give a name to their robots, and if so why did you name your robot that?
Our robot (team 2189) is still without a name!
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Yeah Team 1592 has
At first we started out with a random guy name-Bob
Then we went to Molly because of froging molly
next it was on to Larry because one of our past mentors named Larry passed away.
Now it is Xena because we has to continue the girl guy pattern and we thought that we could stick up to the name having a tough robot and all.
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This years bot has been dubbed Walrus PigâŚif you look at the pics you can see whyâŚO and they want to be able to sing the song.
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While we have never voted on team names almost all of our robots have been given ad-hoc names which stick and end up being used on our website.
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Helio
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Vierlinge
(Prounounced Fear-Ling)
Means quadruplet in German, which is kind of the theme of things on our robot.
-Greg P.
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Ours is officially named âMarvinâ as in the Paranoid Android, but we usually just call it the robot or the boot.
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Our robot is named Occam VIII: Yottabott. We name every one of our robots Occam <number> starting with Occam 1 back in 2001. The name is in honor of William of Ockham and his Razor (âsimplest solution is the bestâ). Then, our robots get a yearly surname; last yearâs surname was âDeadline,â for example. The Yottabott surname is play on words that is only really funny to me (its pretty cheesy). Yotta happens to be the SI prefix for 1000^8 (10^24), and comes from the Greek word âokto,â meaning eight. So, since it is our eighth robot, Yottabott seemed fitting.
To pick names, we usually just have a meeting where anyone can propose ideas and we have a vote for which one we like the most. Some names are nixed before going to vote for various reasons⌠âPsychedelic Attackâ is an example of one thrown out this year, due to drug-related connotations. This year, we also paired up team mottos with robot names and voted on them as a single unit. The runner up to Yottabott w/ the motto "Yotta brains, yotta brawn, notta yotta timeâ was The Razor (an occams razor reference) with the somewhat tounge-in-cheek motto âRaze the Barâ (I guess it is only funny if you are familiar with the 2004 game, but we thought it was humorous).
In conversation we usually donât use the surnames. We just use the numbers (which handily coincide with the year of the competition) and say something like 'Hey is 3 ready for a demo or should we get 6?"
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We decided on the name Talon as a team. At first I thought it was sorta generic but after seeing all of the innovative and interesting things my team has managed to do with it, I am very proud of the name
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Two years ago it was Wazoo (because we had balls comming out of our Wazoo)
Last year it was Randy, named after our long serving and dedicated team sponsor.
We still refer to these robots by their names.
Couple of ideas floating around for this years robot. None are final yet.
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1618 has only named its robots since I joined the team last year, and even then it only really got underway late in the build period. The working title for last yearâs robot was âWhat Robot?â, but the name was quickly changed to Uppercut at lunch on Thursday at Palmetto, for reasons painfully obvious to my chin.
The two robots the team built before my arrival are nameless; we usually refer to them as âthe oh-five robotâ (or whatâs left of itânot much) and âthe oh-six robotâ (which is still physically assembled, but hasnât been driven once in almost two years to my knowledge).
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Super Uper Mark IV
(Last yearâs Mark III was dubbed âThe Sky Craneâ by the announcer at Buckeye last year :P)
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We have come up with a name, and it is âŚ
âFetishâ: Two years ago at a pre-season scrimmage our teacher decided to call our robot fetish. So now we have decided to name our robot âFetishâ, in honor of our teacher.
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Ours is always named either the Kil-A-Byte or Kil-A-Bot. Havenât decided which this year.
Although, at the 2006 debut of our autonomous scripting system dubbed RALFF (robot autonomous language for first) many people had the misconception that our robot was, in fact, named Ralph since every autonomous period our team cheered for ralff. Really rocked my socks that our team was cheering for a few Kb of code⌠:]
-q
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Lightning Robotics 2008 robot is named Thor.
He is preceded by
Boris
Icarus
Carlson X
Loki
Ziff 2.0
Ziff
Johnny 5
Zeus
from 2007 to 2000 respectively.
We choose our robot names through popular vote of the team in either November or December
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We usually name our robot after someone associated with the American Revolution (loosely, anyway). If you get a team number like 1776, itâs hard not to go with it.
The final vote hasnât happened yet this year, but it looks like the robotâs going to be âPaul Rovereâ (one if by lane divider, two if by side rail). Last year was Botsy Ross, and our rookie bot was Benjamin Franklinstein.
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Burnie (our team name is the Burning Magnetos)
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We (Team 2065) donât have an official name for it yet, but our five-man build team (including myself) have called it, for the time being, the M46 Predator, or Predator for short, 'cause it looks like a tank.
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The MidKnight Inventorsâ 2008 robot is named The Knight Rider.
The past two years, when we were Royal Knights Robotics, we had
2006-Sir Lance-a-Bot (Just for funâŚ)
2007-Optimus Prime (The ramps âtransformedâ and rolled out)
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