The School of Engineering owns three autonomous mobile robots that are used for senior and graduate projects. These robots are frequently presented to the public in the course of their duties. Traditionally, science projects that are presented to the public are given clever and memorable names. Unfortunately, our robots do not yet have clever and memorable names; this is where we need your help. We need a name for each of the robots pictured below. It would be nice if the names followed a theme that could be extended if we ever purchase additional robots. If you have any good ideas please post them to this thread and we will hold a vote on the submissions at a later date.
1.(http://minor.siue.edu/~lamonica/1.jpg) 2.(http://minor.siue.edu/~lamonica/2.jpg) 3.(http://minor.siue.edu/~lamonica/3.jpg)
Ok, let me start things off with a few ideas:
1. Simon, Newell, Minsky (pioneers of AI)
2. Speedy, Robbie, Sally (robots from I Robot)
3. Lucy, Linus, Snoopy (Charlie Brown Characters).
I’m pretty sure the Asimov’s Robots theme has been overdone, but the Pioneers of AI is a good idea and so is the comic characters idea. At one point we though about using Looney Tunes names.
Taz, Speedy, Bugs, Sylvester, Porky, Daffy and Elmer.
Well, unless there are any other votes or ideas, I like the cartoon character names. We could even print off a print of the character and paste it over on the Mr. Coffee to help keep them straight.
Those pics look backwards to me. Is that because they were taken with a web cam?
I don't know how much you'd like to use this theme for robots to present to the public, but they sure look like a Larry, Mo, and Curly to me (3 stooges). I know I've sure felt that way about working with robots that just don't cooperate. :-)
1. Neo, Trinity, Morpheus (The Matrix) - you know AI robots that take over the world. Could be extended to Tank, Dozer, Switch, Apoc, etc.
2. Zeus, Hermes, Venus (The Olympians - Ancient Gods). Lots of room for extenuation.
How about Dr. Wu, Cooda, and Whatah? :-D
Call one of those robots Proteus. It's the name of my personal FreeBSD server, and I happen to have quite an attachment to that name.
I would be proud if it was on a robot.
I am suggesting names from The Flintstones, most notably Fred, Barney, and Dino. While these are very advanced machines, their actions and intelligence are fairly primitive making stone age names appopriate.
Alright, I am a geek, so I am going to have to say:
Shatner, Nimoy, and Doohan.
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Gonzo, pepe, and animal.
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Tufnel, St. Hubbins, smalls - after spinal tap band members of course, and if youget more, you could just go through their drummers :)
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Moltar, Zorak, Spaceghost
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Shake, frylock, meatwad
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Crow-T, Tom Servo, and Gypsy
well, that's all I got :)
oh,
blossom, bubbles, buttercup
Data, R2D2, C3PO...
:-)
Is using our own name legal? I'd find it funny to find them named after me:
William, Michael, and Grim
Wow, that would be freaky.
Because we received no responses during the first few weeks of this post we went ahead and used the cartoon character theme. If anyone comes up with a really good idea that we just have to use we might change their names. However, it took some work to get them labeled and it will take even more work to take new pictures of them and get OIT to change their host names so we will probably stick with what we have.
Thanks for all the suggestions anyway.
You can see pictures of the robots and their names at http://roboti.cs.siue.edu
(http://roboti.cs.siue.edu/kids/Pictures/group.jpg)