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Micromouse Sucks For Speed

Writing by Evan Ackerman on Wednesday, 26 of November , 2008 at 2:11 am

Micromouse

We wrote about micromouse competitions back in May, and this week, the annual All Japan Micromouse Robot Competition 2008 was taking place. The mice are capable of driving really, really fast, but the mazes they have to negotiate are full of sharp turns which limits their speed. One entry, Momoco8, attempted to overcome this by adding a vacuum system to their robot. Sort of like a reverse hovercraft, it keeps the mouse stuck to the floor and prevents it from careening out of control around turns:

Momoco8 finished the course in 7.1 seconds during its fastest run, which put it into sixth (!) place. The winner negotiated the entire maze in a mere 6.4 seconds.

VIA [ Robots-Dreams ]

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Category: Competitive

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Comment by quantum_flux

Made Saturday, 23 of October , 2010 at 11:48 pm

Wow dude, that’s like real life F-zero racing.

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