マイクロマウス Very Fast Micromouse racing.

[@EleanorPeterson]

What I love most about this kind of challenge (no matter where in the world it takes place) is the positive atmosphere. The quiet concentration and the 'oohs' and 'aahs' from the audience reveal a depth of involvement and interest that goes far beyond just having a favourite mouse, hating its opponents, mocking their owners, revelling in their misfortune, and winning stacks of cash. It's clear that everybody there wants to see these tiny machines conquer a maze, first creeping round slowly as they learn the route, then very quickly to test their reflexes. Of course there's a timer because it's a competition, but I get the feeling that, because everybody knows how tricky this kind of thing is, they want EVERY mouse to do well. That's a really nice feeling. There's no need for personal antagonism or swaggering egos - it's all about positivity and encouragement. Yay, mousie! (Squeak.)

[@drained1177]

Stfu 12 year old

[@firstnamethenameafterthefi5687]

@@drained1177 Greetings mister/misses Drained. Please teach me your ways. I would love to know how people can think in such a unique way. I rarely meet people that seem as experienced as you are. Hopefully you would not mind explaining to me what one has to do or live through to learn how to spend his/her time on youtube comment sections informing people they should shut their mouth when they make comments on the nice parts of a video about racing robot mice. I cannot imagine how much power you possess to be able to tell them to stop talking when you are clearly not in the right position to tell them what to do. But seriously, why not like just feel ok with others saying positive things when they arent even making wrong statements when you only consider the things that they already assumed to be true, because of how they perceived it? I mean, do you disagree with what is said or do you feel annoyed when people look at things positively? I dont really have something against you, but I do have something against what you said, so I'm really just curious what made you say what you said, ofcourse you don't need to tell me anything if you don't want to, but know that this is not an attack. (Please dont respond with that I wasted my time writing a reply this long (although I get it if you don't want to read it), ok boomer, cringe or something like that XD (So *hopefully* no insults))

[@drained1177]

@@firstnamethenameafterthefi5687 ok boomer

[@firstnamethenameafterthefi5687]

@@drained1177 Nooooo

[@Finfante]

@@drained1177 Seriously please go away. Like genuinely you suck.

[@HaydenTheEeeeeeeeevilEukaryote]

How are they programmed? Nevermind: "The runs are conducted in two phases. The first has the robot pick its way through the maze using sensors. The second is a speed run based on the map the robot has created." - Robert McGregor

[@RobertMcGregor]

Here's a github: github.com/idt12312/MazeSolver2015 Japanese but the source code variables are all in English.

[@HaydenTheEeeeeeeeevilEukaryote]

Robert McGregor YOOOO I can use this to improve my own code by looking at habits. Thank you.

[@HaydenTheEeeeeeeeevilEukaryote]

tweed thank you, but I meant "how do they know which path to take. How are they programmed to know it?" According to Robert McGregor, they're exposed to the maze before hand and try to find a path through it, then they run through it again as quickly as possible.

[@wrgms]

@tweed: Most Arduinos use standard microprocessors (ATMEL, ARM Cortex, etc), so nothing to do with FPGA. While you could theoretically use a ATmega168/328/etc softcore implemented in FPGA and then run Arduino code on top of it, it would be like buying a modern computer just to run an Atari 2600 emulator. It works, but definitely overkill :)

[@Caricanalisis]

THANK YOU

[@digimon916]

I love how they "reverse park"

[@Droolzgaming]

YO I WAS JUST THINKING THE EXACT SAME THING

[@t-poseyt9764]

what does "reverse park" mean??

[@andhikapranoto7236]

@@t-poseyt9764 parks in reverse

[@t-poseyt9764]

@@andhikapranoto7236 skrap?

[@Moloch6666]

that is the most common way to park in japan, so im guessing thats why the also make the robots do this

[@funny-video-YouTube-channel]

Imagine if that was *an automated taxi.* The drive to destination would be very fast :-)

[@dewinmoonl]

and you would puke all over the seats xD

[@npc6817]

@@dewinmoonl screw puking all over the seats, with all those high G turns you would be splattered all around the cab

[@CoolDudeStudiosProjectCDSSKaN]

This is actually really impressive for anyone who has built a robot because its common knowledge that programs to pass through masses rely a lot on the sensors and that makes them slow as all hell

[@CringeBasedLifeform]

i really wanna watch one of these in person even though i wouldn't be able to understand a thing it just looks so fun.

[@MattRoszak]

How does the pathfinding work? Are the robots given any information in advance, or are they figuring it out through sight?

[@pussinbootsisawesome]

Matt Roszak the robot does a run that detects the best path using sensors, the runs shown in the video are speed runs in which the robot tries to do the best path as fast as possible

[@downey2294]

@@pussinbootsisawesome how does it know what the end goal is?

[@pussinbootsisawesome]

@@downey2294 pretty sure the robot is given the end spaces to work with but everything else is what the robot works out on its own

[@daverei1211]

@@downey2294 it’s a 2x2 box. The layout is in 1x1 squares. When the micromouse detects the 4x4 space it knows it is at the goal. Normally a mouse will have slow runs first to map out the maze, even after finding the goal they will go home by other paths to optimise the map. Then the final runs are high speed to get the quickest time.

[@Kaboom0]

Why build a better mousetrap when you can build a better mouse?

[@RobertMcGregor]

Sounds like an arms race to me!

[@bobthebuilder1545]

Nice comment 👍

[@bakedutah8411]

You build a better mousetrap _because_ someone has built a better mouse. Put it this way, I hope no mice are watching these videos, otherwise they might start getting ideas. Before you know it, instead of scurrying about our homes, the wee beasties will be flying in on squadrons of drones, and we’ll all need mini SAM batteries in our kitchens.

[@mason3872]

Why build a mousetrap when you can just build a mouse with a gun attached?

[@jeffwillsea6757]

@@RobertMcGregor paws race!

[@seanparker4461]

People can talk about Boston Dynamics all day long. We'd better not EVER get into a techy kind of war with Japan.

[@Veronica.John10-10]

This is highly satisfying to watch...

[@OttoByOgraffey]

9:45 automatic disqualification. He used the baby. This is an unfair advantage, and is frowned upon in many countries throughout the world, and in some, punishable by death.

[@ianthehedgehog9327]

Is this a joke? I thought the robo mice went through them without controllers.

[@huhrawz]

Ian The Hedgehog are you serious...

[@hayond656]

@@huhrawz Lmao

[@Togmot]

I am jealous of the japanese for having so many smart people.

[@M16-z7j]

😁😂

[@primodernious]

this is what i call real artifical intelligence as this is fun for people, not corporations.

[@npc6817]

but it doesn't even remotely qualify as artificial intelligence

[@oscargold1554]

So we need faster cats now.

[@officialpondus9404]

How my grandparents described their trip to school

[@rainbowsprinkles4234]

... This viewer, for one, welcomes our new robot overlords. Just wanted to make this stance credibly evidenced ahead of time for when the inevitable conqu- er, we mean, arrival of our benevolent custodians comes to pass. Seriously, though, this is even more delightful than robot fights! All the amazing, none of the violence!

[@jeffwillsea6757]

Can we get FIRST robotics teams to start doing this in the off season please? It's a different kind of robot so it provides a different kind of challenge and would hold attention really well. This and the sumo bots. Though I don't think I could get the team I help mentor to do this well. XD

[@chanyy6838]

IKEA in different countries will be like:

[@MCCENTx2]

how do the cars have so much traction?

[@RobertMcGregor]

This is a really good question and an interesting topic. Would you believe.... tiny vacuums? Interesting presentation on this here: micromouseusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Why-design-a-High-Efficiency-Power-Supply-System-for-Micromouse-with-Vacuum.pdf

[@James-oo1yq]

Each weighs approximately the same as a fully grown Male African Elephant............honest! 😏

[@wrth]

Sort of like those toy cars with fans so you could drive them on the wall

[@JasonWW2000]

@@RobertMcGregor Do you know how the sumo robots can move so quickly? Vacuum or maybe a steel surface and electro magnets in the bots?

[@sinekonata]

@@James-oo1yq I imagine adding weight wouldn't help at all. Magnets or suction would though.

[@MarinusMakesStuff]

So these are pre-programmed to run the specific course? Very impressive. It looks like they are blindly following a set of instructions based on speed, acceleration and coordinates. Anyone that knows more about these nifty machines? And do they work similar to Sumo robots? (and how do those work haha?). Edit, found it! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromouse

[@amberravine2232]

THIS IS INCREDIBLE!!

[@expertintinfoilhats2063]

How can they turn so fast ? even with low G center, thoses little wheel may not give that much adherence right ? It feel like they use a trick but idk

[@redfox644]

IWD_tv Another comment asked the same thing - they apparently use fans to create a vacuum under the car like the formula 1 fan car

[@somerandomdude7064]

The robot speed is so fast, it even leaves after images

[@jaymehta27]

This is peak mankind

[@emissarygw2264]

Can we please please please please please get first-person dashcam footage of this? xD

[@shaileshkris]

Take a bow, Japan!

[@seanparker4461]

This is absolutely incredible!!!!!!!

[@unvergebeneid]

How are they so frickin' fast?!

[@Togmot]

If there ever is a terminator IRL it will be a billion of these mice strapped with explosives set to kill humans

[@LeoLoikkanen]

This is some amazing stuff!

[@oscargold1554]

Can that speed scale up? Imagine if that was a big office layout.

[@sensiur]

satisfying video for me.

[@xd_teoma93]

SPEEDRUNNERS BE LIKE

[@dalekmun2010]

I want more info on the bots themselves, what's the deal with them?

[@RobertMcGregor]

You might want to take a peek at this intro guide to the mice here: micromouseguideforbeginners.wordpress.com/ It gives you a pretty good sense of what involved if you want to get started. Good luck!

[@2.7petabytes]

Um...yeah, that’s CRAZY! My damned eyes can barely follow that little sucker!

[@Aviannauts]

these hexbugs are highly intelligent wtf /j

[@SirDragonClaw]

Are these pre-programmed or are they fed a virtual version of the map for pathfinding or what?

[@RobertMcGregor]

The runs are conducted in two phases. The first has the robot pick its way through the maze using sensors. The second is a speed run based on the map the robot has created.

[@SirDragonClaw]

Oh wow that's really cool. So are both times part of the competition? Or are they scored separately?

[@HaydenTheEeeeeeeeevilEukaryote]

Robert McGregor Lol that’s all I was asking for. But thanks for the source code.

[@lightlyfluffedcopypasta8572]

Wait, what source code? Can I have some?

[@Joshuaxiong2]

First run, try to find. Second run, run the map you learned.

[@Forrsch]

For I moment I thought they were controlling the mice lol

[@hakr14]

4:10 gansta's paradise

[@AdityaPrasad007]

We need this in all our technical colleges. FUCK.

[@kobusmeyer4564]

Where was the team with a real mouse?

[@transformersloverjon]

What's the song at the end?

[@aju5405]

What components are exactly used in those robots.? they are very faster

[@mattf6690]

little drones like this will be zipping all over the place in the air and the ground in the future, I bet!

[@mattf6690]

Reminds me of something I seen in my minds eye years ago, where people have these little robots that crawl around on your body, not sure why though, and im not talking about the cleaning ones that go on your clothes. Might have something to do with massaging you or stimulating your muscles, idk but be careful and alert for this coming future because we can't take any chances, we need electromagnetic frequency protection, protect your brain too, they can read your mind from far away already if they want to. And people want to destroy or take over the US, we gotta be several steps ahead of the enemy. :)

[@haliac7117]

The precision

[@Joshuaxiong2]

I want to see the first try also.

[@Logeekistics]

For something programmed its not really a maze, but a track. There is a lot of that track thats not being used.

[@Weedmate420]

There is 2 phases. They had to run it 1 time before so it learns it in order to get to that final high-speed point, this is just an highlights of these mice's second runs. There was that mice with a camera that got lifted very high and took pictures of the maze from many perspectives and learned the maze in its first run because it ''saw it'' from above already, in this case it was a track.

[@andrewwoodfield1469]

Look into it before you comment. This competition has been running for nearly 40 years, my dad was the first champion beating the whole world time abdvtime again but nothing like these things, taken to a different level now, however, for them to get like this they had to copy my dad, the Hoss would come along and take extreme close ups if the processors and electronics and the drive mechanism and try and beat him and for many years still failed, but eventually and after a whole year spent snd developing mice they managed it, my dad was one man in his own in his shed in the garden, these teams are university led and gave as much money as they like to beat my dad, which inevitably they did, couldn’t come up with the technology themselves had to copy a genius but they gotvttere in the end!!

[@venomag9350]

@@andrewwoodfield1469 wow, truly believable (sarcasm)

[@АметУсеинов-с3г]

вот это скорость !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@2j7]

That's one hacker in Roblox and minecraft fly :

[@RickyTricky90]

we're all doomed

[@josiahclark2369]

where can i get one?

[@mudkip8382]

Is this initial D?

[@zentii5883]

Japanese having fun while we struggle to make this

[@yes6046]

trackmania be like:

[@hello-ie5bl]

*Imagine someone reverse engineer this thing and turn it into a real car it will be faster than goku's teleportation power and read my name*

[@chanyy6838]

*ＩＫＥＡ．*

[@shinobieuc]

These people have better Programming than Elon Musk auto drive program . . . .

[@anantbansal5901]

Please share program

[@superpizzaplaygame4043]

I think they have like path finder thingy

[@sinekonata]

If they have sensors why don't they pick up the race when they crashed? And why do some not understand they have crashed. Also how can you crash when you have sensors?

[@sorou]

i imagine they’re moving so fast the potential for damaging on-board sensors when crashing is super high. think about all those battle bots that get absolutely wrecked in a fight and can’t continue a competition - i imagine it’s something similar. there may also be in-competition rules that designate hitting a wall as a loss, or alternatively, theres just no way your time is going to be good enough if your mouse hits an obstacle

[@sinekonata]

@@sorou True, there must be next to no incentive for sturdy sensors as any bump probably loses you the race anyway.

[@yazidarizqi]

Tokichi insecure.

[@Chase-ds5qw]

whenever i see a mouse get stuck on a wall and lose it physically pains me

[@xXGoldenBoyXx_24k]

8:21 2016 lol

[@williamhu9567]

Bruh i forgot to turn off .5 speed then i realised it was 2x faster than it looked

[@lolwut2094]

They play the same clip of the dude in the hivis vest

[@Oyakinya-Izuki]

Who saw the 2017 written on the labyrinth

[@joseeduardomendezsanchez1720]

Wtf?

[@thebuddha4208]

So big deal a machine can do it super fast who would’ve thought now train some rats or mice to do that in the same time I will be incredibly impressed

[@Codename_GA]

they are faster in 2x

[@shirolee]

Freaking Japan..... lol

[@-JustHuman-]

Now make 1000, put them into a drone and add some explosive to each. You now have a self seeking smart bomb, that could kill people inside a cave....

[@Zain-IX]

1:59 anime gril

[@Jevtic1]

*ONLY IN JAPAN*

[@bextrandstevano4000]

meanwhile in indonesia...

[@Aufa8910]

there are bunch of robot comp out there btw. 3 years ago. and its already a national comp.

[@oguzhanvarolll]

aynen kardeşim kıbrıs bizimdir kürt sorunu bitmeli aynen kardeşim askeriyede türbanlı eş olmaz aynen kardeşim ilke inkılap aynen kardeşim kentsel dönüşüm var imza topla dükkanı bankaya kiraya ver aynen kardeşim aynen ezan türkçe okunmuş aynen kardeşim !

[@OttoByOgraffey]

The injectifier in the trombolinier with subfractors interdispersed throughout the varience of the quadmidifier for the 4th mouse (mus) should invariably, by a common denominator, besmurchified the overkinetic significance between the trachiadacotimer upon the 4th power without significance, unless, of course, it is without the partisimonly. Almost every time.