What do you call the thing that this forum is about? It doesn’t have to be official, just what you call it generally.
It’s called Robovation[font=Verdana]™[/font].
I know that’s officially. But that’s not the question. Offial announcements are different from what-everyone-calls-it. I shall forever call it the EDU Bot. (and Robovation’s lame)
I noticed you didn’t vote.
Anyone have access to a EDU Bot kit? What does it say on the top?
For those of you like me who still call it the EDU Bot, do you say “edu” as in education or each letter separatley E - D - U? I prefer the latter.
I do word, but some of our mentors do letter.
we say edubot…<eju-bot> its because thats what our mentor said it was when he brought the kit in. no other reason.
Ed-jew-bot.
I don’t think any of us would get sued for using the term EDU-Bot around the shop or on the forums here (I hope not anyways), but if you are writing a paper for the news or the team’s website, I would use the new name of Robovations.:rolleyes:
Elgin - Who obviously still uses the term EDU-Bot (pronounced just as BillFred showed the pronunciation right above.)
And who also remembers the last ditch effort of Disney in 2002 to show how in tune they were with us “Robotics People” by calling us Roboteers…
Yeah, umm… that didn’t fly too well either, now did it?
Well in that case…
Heh, I was right. I totally called this back when the “Robovation” thread first opened.
Cory
I’m still gonna call it the Ed-Ju-Bot. After 2 years of talking about it almost everyday for 6 weeks, it is kind of implanted in my brain. I mean cmon… what if they tried to change the name of “FIRST” to “MARG: Magical Autonomous Robot Games” I would still call it FIRST
I’ve always know it as the EDUbot.
I still refer to IT as the EDUbot. The Robovation name inhales audibly. When they announced the name change I had to reread the announcement several times to figure out just what it was about. Robovation gives no clue.
But since there has to be a change, BetaBot works much better for me. Afterall, that’s what it’s for. Being a Beta robot.
You have to know FIRST is a good idea, it succeeds in spite of lousy marketing. This is just another example.
Definetly eju-bot… Robovation is too hard to remember and doesn’t quite mean the same thing to me… 
I have always just called it, Edu-Robotics Kit
Our Edu-bot (as it is called) prefers to be called Willard.
EDUbot. I wish FIRST changes the name from Robovation to something else which clearly tells us that it is and “EDUbot”. Robovation is just too long and takes too many muscles to say:p … and is hard to remember…
If somebody came up to me “did you guys build a robovation bot?” I’d got blank for a while… and then realize, but if they said “Did you guys build a EDUbot?”, then I would give an INSTANT reply… oh well
-Bharat
I agree with you 100%, I mean, what in the world is a “Robovation bot”? It sounds so different than what others have always called it. Although i do believe that it’ll just take some getting used to. Or, we could just keep calling it the “Edu-bot”.
I call it the EDUbot or the BetaBot … it alternates …
For those who do not know, the Canadian Kickoff has a competition using the EDUbot Kit, and it is called the BetaBot there …