Comments on: This Is What You Call A Group Of Robots

By: Bender

Bender — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:37:41 +0000

Too late for the competition, but I would have submitted “a spark of robots”.

By: Drew Neil

Drew Neil — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 14:46:02 +0000

I am a collective noun enthusiast, so it gives me great cheer to see a competition such as this. The number of excellent suggestions was quite overwhelming! I expect that 'an assemblage of robots' will come into common usage rapidly, and shall be recognised by the Oxford English Dictionary before long. I've been running a little collective noun contest of my own. My site, All Sorts, searches Twitter for the #collectivenouns hashtag. Every tweet that it finds is analysed for a phrase of the form 'an X of Y'. If such a phrase is found, then the collective noun and noun are both indexed in a database. Over the course of several months, All Sorts has gathered some thousand suggestions. If anyone who participated in this competition was to submit their suggestions (keeping it to 1 per tweet) on Twitter, I would be delighted. At time of writing, there have yet to be any suggestions for robots...

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 06:45:28 +0000

Congrats to Andrew and Denomolus. I put “clank” as my top choice but it was two hours too late, hehe. I like it: An assemblage of robots. ;)

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:02:31 +0000

My wife and I came up with a few ideas but

Our favorite by far was “agency” b/c it’s so much of an A.I. pun :-)

“An agency of robots”

By: exoteric

exoteric — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:15:51 +0000

I was talking about this today to my girlfriend and her suggestion might even be better than mine: “A frustration of robots.”

By: StephenMS

StephenMS — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 04:51:38 +0000

Yay! Congrats Andrew. I’m pleased and surprised that one of my suggestions placed. My geek cred just went up a notch. Thanks to Lem Fuggit.

By: Anthony Oliver

Anthony Oliver — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:55:51 +0000

I forgot about this contest, poo.

I know it’s belated, but here are mine:

* Ro-band
* aggregate
* Ro-lots (this is more of a pun)

By: DENOMOLUS

DENOMOLUS — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:20:02 +0000

Thanks guys!

By: Joey1058

Joey1058 — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:00:35 +0000

After reading the lists, “cluster” was my personal pick. But “assemblage” does seem to make sense. I can work with it. :-)

By: MadcapJack

MadcapJack — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:42:08 +0000

Mechanation isn’t a word! It’s Mechanization! XD