Micromouse robot completes maze in under four seconds (video)

It could not look all that mouse-like, but this so-called micromouse robot can navigate a maze unlike every other — robot or otherwise. Built by Ng Beng Kiat, the Min7.1 bot has a top speed of 12 kilometers per hour, and it recently set a brand new record within the Japan Micromouse Robot Competition with a time of three.921 seconds. For those not up on their robot maze-racing stats, that’s a whole second under the previous record holder . Obviously, it didn’t just blaze through on its first attempt. The bots are first allowed an autonomous exploration phase, but even it’s fairly impressive to look at. Take a look at it and the record-setting run after the break.

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