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computer science. Rogue at Carnegie Mellon University was named after the woman
mutant from the X-Men comics (to complement the robot Xavier, named after the
wheeled super hero). The robots in my lab at the University of South Florida are
named after women science fiction authors. (Except one robot which was named
after the Coors beer, Silver Bullet, while I was out of town.)

More robot name trivia.
The Nerd Herd consists of IS Robotics R2 robots which look like toasters. Brightly
colored toasters, but toasters nonetheless. The 20 robots are named for things that
come out of toasters, for example, Bagel.