Who's got some good names for Servos?

[cwykes]

Are you guys just calling them John Smith or do you have proper robot names?   My first one was Jeeves and the second Maida, but I'm not sure where to go from there.  I refuse to call one C3PO or R2D2.   I'm thinkiing about a series of names  - a serial number is a traditional SciFi ID for robots, but I'd have to track where I'd got to or I'd have '0009 Smith' and '0009 Jones'.  I've seen alphabot, betabot etc. but what comes after Z?    Asimov called his something like 'Robot John Smith' or 'R John Smith'.  What have you guys called yours?

[J. M. Pescado]

"Tobor". All of them are called "Tobor". Tobor-01, Tobor-02, etc.

[Renatus]

If I have them again, I will probably did what I did with a previous android-skinned family and name them after various scientists and science fiction writers, with some sort of pulled from the air model number after. I seem to remember I had an Asimov, a Tesla, a Newton, and a Curie...

[SimSherry]

So far I've had Tinker Belle, Otto Pilot, Gizmo, and Gadget.  I figure since they each have a personality and wants and such, they should be more than just a number, right?  Can't wait to see what other names get added to this post, I definitely want some new ideas!

[SaraMK]

All of mine get called Robo R___. R___ being any name starting with R. So far I have Robo Robb, Robo Robin, Robo Roxann, and Robo Rita.

I have NO imagination.

My first one was called Metalhead, so the Robo sims should feel lucky.

[Ness]

I've only had two...  the male I called servo, the female I called servette   

Ness

[Simlover]

Hmm what was that terminator androids name??? John something??

[Lythdan]

I haven't had any servos yet, but if I did...it would be named Overs.

[Ancient Sim]

I wasn't really prepared when I got my first in that I wasn't sure how it worked.  The person who made him was the ex-Diva (now married to Twain), but she was knackered when she'd finished so I got Posie Flump to activate him, which gave him the surname of Flump (probably better than Ballard, the Diva's surname at the time).  As he'd got Posie's surname, I chose a surname based on the Diva, so he's Divaman Flump.  The woman he made himself is (surprisingly enough), Divawoman Flump.  This means that when they have kids they'll probably be Divaboy Flump, Divagirl Flump, Divalad Flump, Divalass Flump ... amazingly imaginative.

My next bot family I'll try harder.  Maybe I'll have one called Ann Droid or Roe Botte or something.  Or maybe not.

[Motoki]

The one in my new avatar picture is called Robo-Nanny. 

[lefty]

I've only had one robot, and in true original mode, I named it HAL. I'll probably get more creative next time and call them things like R2-D2 and C3PO 

[SIMplyLisa]

try this site for ideas!

http://www.btinternet.com/~reg.joy/AtoZ.htm

[buddha pest]

I've got one called Areyou-486.

I've also found just about anything works if you just attach "Funky" to the beginning.

[Aldebaran]

I called my first Destruct-o-Mat. Sadly, he hasn't run amok since the activation. One of these days I'll command him to swim a little 

[MistMeUK]

ED 101
from the origanal carmageddon I think, but probably from something before that.

[veilchen]

I have only two, because I'm still obsessed with the whole android thing. Anyway, her name is Dremma, his name is Ypsilon. The greek alphabeth is a good source, so are sci-fi novels. Or some good alterations of latin words.

[J. M. Pescado]

Maybe I should add a command just for servos, "Destroy All Humans", and if they click on another sim (that must be a human, obviously), the option "Destroy" will appear.

[DrBeast]

Hmm...robot names eh? Well, first two would be easy: Marvin and Electric Eye. Then what...?
How about Iron Man? Painkiller? Jawbreaker? British Steel? Bah, you know what? Pick up any Judas Priest album and rummage through the titles. You'll find many appropriate names for robots!

Maybe I should add a command just for servos, "Destroy All Humans", and if they click on another sim (that must be a human, obviously), the option "Destroy" will appear.

Love that idea JM! Always looking for more fun ways to disintegrate townies! Oh, wait...townies are actually of some use in OFB right? Damn, gonna have to stop the killing spree when I get it. Double damn!

[Oddysey]

Maybe I should add a command just for servos, "Destroy All Humans", and if they click on another sim (that must be a human, obviously), the option "Destroy" will appear.

YES!!! AMOK ON COMMAND!!

Wooh. That would be awesome.

So far, I've named robots "Andrew" (after "Bicentenial Man,"the short story, not the book or the movie, although the movie was pretty good for a robot movie . . . better than the I, Robot movie . . . but I digress) and "Eliza," after Eliza.

In the near Earth short stories, the ones compiled in I, Robot, Asimov gave his robots letter-number designations, but the characters gave them a name based on that designation. So "QT" became "Cutie," and "DV" (I think. Something D, V may have been something else.) became "Dave." Or the characters would name the robots after their functions, so the really fast robot (curses, can't remember what the story was. Either "Runaround" or "Catch that Rabbit!" Possibly both; Asimov complained a lot about how editors would change his story names) was called "Speedy."

Then in the Elijah Bailey novels, The Caves of Steel and sequels, robots had basically human names with an R. abbreviated from Robot at the front. Thus, R. Daneel Olivaw. So that might be the easiest naming configuration. Give them regular names with an R. intitial in front of it. R. Bob, R. Steve, er . . . something.

Of course, there's always Martin.

[DrBeast]

Of course, there's always Martin.

Hmm...is it Martin or Marvin?

[Marvelleaux]

Grendel

[angelyne]

  I've seen alphabot, betabot etc. but what comes after Z?   

You really intend to have more than 24 robots 

[DoomPuppy]

I had my first servo run amok last night and I have to say "Run Amok: on command would so kick ass.  Oh back to the topic..my first female servo I named Tin Lizzie and she's my favorite so far.

[Mirelly]

I love the "Destroy All Humans" idea, Pescado. Please make it so

Meanwhile ... I named my first servo Severina (a female who was nowhere near enough up to the mark as any kind of a dominatrix, so that plan went down the tubes) Next to be activated got saddled with Gort. He was as gormlessly useless, as my experience with his ersatz female protoype led me to anticipate. As a punishment for being so deficient in qualities worthwhile of preservation, I made him swim in the pool all day and stand all night, waiting for sun up, by the mailbox.

I finally lost interest and moved both bots out their respective families and combined them into a new household. I'm still waiting for one or the other to come up as a potential employee at one of my 'normal' sims' businesses ....

To be honest making them is too easy and destroying them is too hard. In a world where mortal sims are apt to become trembly-voiced arthritic wrecks within minutes of giving birth an immortal, indestructable robot is sort of insulting.

[lefty]

Of course, there's always Martin.

Hmm...is it Martin or Marvin?

If we're talking about the robot from the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, then it's Marvin.