October 8, 2007

Robotic Mouse finds its way through the Maze

by Dhiram Shah

Tokyo Technology Mansion played host to the 25th Micromouse event. The event features participants from all over Japan with miniature mice which are intelligent and travel really fast. The micromice first scout in the 16 x 16 maze and memorize the obstacles to travel faster and to reach the goal as fast as possible. The above video is of MF2007A the winner of the competition the robot is cruising at ease through the maze as it has memorized the maze earlier.
(Two more videos after the jump)

MF2007A zooming to the center of the maze.

Another robotic mouse scouting the maze and memorizing it.
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