Few things fascinate a simple Hackaday writer as much as a tiny robot. We’ve been watching [Keri]’s utterly beguiling micromouse builds for a while now, but the fifth version of the KERISE series ...

Micromouse competitions have been running in Japan since 1980. In all that time, the ruleset has remained essentially unchanged. The autonomous robot mouse navigates a 16×16 maze creating a map. It ...

Lab rats beware -- there's a new turbo-charged robotic cousin of yours on the block. This little autonomous fellow, Tetra, has just wowed micromouse hobbyists with a 4.766-second finish time in a maze ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- The 31st All Japan Micromouse Robot annual competition is held in November each year to find the fastest robotic micromouse to navigate a maze, and this year’s competition promises to ...

It may not look all that mouse-like, but this so-called micromouse robot can navigate a maze unlike any other -- robot or otherwise. Built by Ng Beng Kiat, the Min7.1 bot has a top speed of 12 ...

Every year, people from all over the world compete see who can build the fastest mouse. Mouse robot that is. These Micromouse competitions have miniature wheeled robots searching through mazes, ...

Meet Tetra, officially the fastest mouse on four wheels. Stuart Little’s got nothing on this guy. Tetra’s completion of an “expert class” maze in 4.7 seconds shatters last year’s best by more than a ...

The University of Nevada, Reno’s micromouse scooted its way around the maze in the fastest time Saturday to beat out 10 other teams from around the west. The MicroMouse competition featured small ...

At the 32nd annual Micromouse Robot Competition in Tsukuba, Japan, lecturer Ng Bent Kiat's 90-gram, 4-wheeled mouse robot, called the Min 7.1, set a new world record. The competition has two stages.

[Photo: Ng Beng Kiat] If you’ve ever found a maze puzzle particularly difficult, prepare to be both amazed and ashamed. In fact, you may have just been beaten by a robotic mouse, which managed to ...