[Tyler]

Flock of Birds, School of Fish,  ____ of Robots?
     


That's the basic question being asked in a contest
being hosted by our
friends at BotJunkie.com. One of the curious things about the English
language is that is has so many different collective
nouns: a host of
angels, a herd of antelope, a swarm of locusts, a fling of sandpipers;
there
are hundreds of these. Some are just strange such as parliament of
owls, a knob of pochards, a cohort of zebras. But in all those words
there's no collective noun to describe robots. We all know the word
robot was coined
by Josef Čapek for his brother Karel's play, R.U.R. And we know Isaac Asimov is
responsible for the word roboticist. Now it's your turn to
take your place in history for coming up with the best word for a group
of robots. Fame can be yours. Oh and there might be a prize too. Entries
so far include things like the Borg-inspired "collective of robots", a
"mechanation of robots", a "matrix of robots" and a "gestalt of robots".
Can
you think of a better one? (pictured above is an assemblage of
astromechs!)
   

http://robots.net/article/2883.html