The Fastest Maze-Solving Competition On Earth

Veritasium · 25.3M views · 2023-05-24 · 25:22

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Overview

Veritasium visits the Micromouse competition, where small autonomous robots race to solve mazes at extreme speed. It covers the competition's technical history, including fans and ground effect enabling very high-g turns.

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HN commenters point to it as a nice introduction to micromouse and maze-racing robots.

Recommended by 5 HN people across 4 months · HN mentions 2023–2024

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Robotics Mechanical & precision engineering Embedded systems & DIY electronics

What people said

sllabres · 2024-07 · Recommendation
[1] "The Fastest Maze-Solving Competition On Earth" (22 min) is a nice introduction to the competition and its technical history. [1] [VIDEO]
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kromnomo · 2024-07 · Recommendation
A few months ago, I saw this documentary about maze-solving robots that really impressed me: [VIDEO] This might be an interesting use case.
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_carbyau_ · 2024-06 · Recommendation
For me it was the Veritasium Micromouse video[0]. Hard to quote the video but from wikipedia[1]:"Micromice are among the highest-performing autonomous robots." Things like fans and ground effect being used to make these devices do 6g turns while mapping and solving a maze. Alternately, the world of quadcopters, face recognition (body warmth recognition required?), lidar will make for a terrifying battlefield. [0] [VIDEO] [1] [LINK]
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