The Sunset High School Robotics Club spent the day Saturday, January 9, building a robot. It started as three boxes of lifeless plastic and metal, and transformed in to an (almost) working complete robot. That’s right, you heard me: IT TRANSFORMS!

Electric motors come out of the box and cause confusion.

The frame is definitely not just a big metal square.

Working the electronics is, as it turns out, a lot like brain surgery.

The field of combat; mechanized combat to the death!

That's how we roll.

One frame, plus one drive system equals one awesome!

The currently unnamed Bison Bot, and a tired, dirty, happy crew.

So this is the basic frame, drive and brain. The team is going to spend the next six weeks adding whatever our little friend needs so he/she/it will be able to play soccer on a team of three, on an obstacle course, against three other robots.

The first thing he/she/it needs is a name. Maybe you can help us out. Give us your suggestions in the comments below.