Name the robot

I have developed a walking robot mainly for street parades
It has mechanical walking legs and although it is not able to walk unaided it is proposed to use it to appear to push a mobility scooter or wheel chair along the street.

My main aim of this is to have as much mechanical parts visible and hope that it will inspire young people to get interested in robotics.

At the moment it has some very realistic mechanical legs that are suspended just off the ground and as it moves along it appears to be walking and pushing the scooter.
I’m proposing to sit in the chair pretending to be an invalid with a blanket over legs.
The swivelling chair will be used to steer the scooter and the controls will be under the blankets.
The robot will be able to react with the crowd and wave to any one.
All appearances will be that the robot is my personal assistant and carer taking me for an outing.

Naming it after some sci fi robot is not on as I would really like some name that is easy to remember and kid friendly and sort of describe a personal assistant robot.

Masculine or feminine any ideas fellow UT ers.

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Hank?

Melissa?

Jeeves.

Do you have any video of it working?? Sounds pretty cool. I want to see it in action. I'll be in NZ in either december or Jan. if there are any parades I hope i see Jeeves walking you down the street.

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with a hat, trenchcoat, and sunglasses, it could be Mr Walker...

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xmas parade in christchurch new zealand about mid december i think as well as another one in brighton(suburb of ch ch)
will keep updated and try to get movie on the web some time when nearer to finish.

was trying the arm raising today and it was really realistic with gravity assisted movement of forarm.
after 10 minutes tryout i realised the hand had turned around and the darn robot was giving me a very real fingers sign

i guess he is still a teenager
some good ides for names so far thanks

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bender
leonard
martha

android-- male human like
gynoid-- female human like
cyborg-- human robot mix
actoid -- acting robot

and then the low level robots which sens some thing and act on it.
toaster, hot water cylinder,washing machine etc

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'Steppenout'?
'Treadnought'?
'Toebot'?
'Strider'? (Sorry, that one's taken)
'Striderman'?
'Gene'? (as in Kelly?)
'Pace'?
'Nanny'? (easier if you rode in a pram...)

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We named the dishwasher at work "The Sherminator"
But something easier to remember is... uh ... Bob? ... Mr Robot...?

(Cool sounding robot BTW )

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A common mistake when designing some thing completely fool proof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

It never ceases to amaze me how truly dim bright people can be.

seems like it broke the dishes in stead

currently thinking of tredbot or stepper ( too clinical)
i want to perhaps get away from non human words like bot.
or menacing words like ---- naught
stepper could be easy to remember and friendly hmmm!
still thinking

my 10 foot long mechanical dragon was called Wiley wumble
which was a really friendly sort of name

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'Robart Amblin'?

'Art Amblin'?

'Tramble'?

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Words willy wonker (the chocolate factory)seem to stick in the memory as does wiley wumble.
thanks so far for the ideas

he is a bit over weight i could call him 'tiddly tum'

or stumble on

stumble toe

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If you end up going with 'Stumbleon' or near variant, would that make Josh its 'godfather'?

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the robot is progressing well and still have to find a really good name for it as i will be using it in a childrens story book
with the wiley wumble as a friendly dragon
the real type pictures will make the story more believable and hopfully encourage kids to make real robotic devises in stead of virtual ons in the x-box
'will-he-stumble' perhaps

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'The cool adventures of Wiley Wumble and Willy Stumble' B)
'The exciting adventures of Willy Stumble and Wiley Wumble'
'Wumble and Stumble go to Mars!' h34r:
'Wumble and Stumble visit Rupert!'

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thats would be the best so far cran


Willy Stumble and Wiley Wumble'
we have to be carefull that the grown ups dont see the green dragon flying though
unless they were drinking whiskey

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especially if they're St George fans!

Best wishes for the parade, piersdad; a friendly dragon, a walking robot - can't wait to see what you come up with next!

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one very relieved irish man saw me and a radio transmitter in hand

"begorra am i glad to see you"

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That's so great, piers. A remote controlled ROWboat. I wish I could see it in action. How big is it? Which of the two call out the cadence?

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names of robots (prospective):

jojo, sunova, novia,novatek, robumbra, steller-robo, robotron, phorob,robomars

Its 36 inches long and 11 inches wide. The men are 11 inches high.
it took me 3 months to work out the exact mechanics of it and the rowing action is very very believable.
The oars are controlled by brass levers from underneath the seats and the mens arms have some 5 hinge points each.
The oars move the arms and at the end of each stroke the arms lock and throw the body back and forth in a random manner.
Each side is controlled by separate motors with foward reverse independantly controlled by radio.
The levers are so adjusted so that the oars go in an elongated elipse that is slightly inclined so that as the oar starts to dip into the water, it pauses slightly, and accelerates swifty after that so that it dips into the water without a splash.
Due to the effort the power stroke is slow and the return stroke is quick.

The effect is that if you come across it in a remote pond, and dont see me, then your hair sort of stands up.
It is now 14 years old and has done some 200 km of rowing and surprised a heck of a lot of people.
Even toddlers of 18 months up have looked at them with such interest that im sure they will be thinking thats what i want to have one day and perhaps will become the next generation of robotic makers.


thanks for the names suntrack2
I will be making a list up in big letters soon and ask the judges to choose.( my 3 grand children of 3-5-and 7 yrs age

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