Robot Mice Solve Mazes With Blazing Speed (Video)

I was present at the micromouse competition the first time a mouse ran diagonally down a zig-zag path. It drew audible gasps from the audience, followed by a round of applause and standing ovation.

I'm not sure, but I think it was MITEE mouse.

I had been intending to enter, but the night before I plugged in the EEPROM the wrong way round and fried it. I didn't have a spare, so that was it. I ran out of time to enter the following year, and never got back to it. I still have the mouse ... I wonder if I could ressurect it, just out of interest.

In my copious free time.

I like how eventually the AI knows to just go diagonally (with some corrections) through some zigzags. Also pretty impressive just how fast the reactions are, not necessarily from a computational standpoint but from seeing just how slow human reaction is.