The Fastest Maze-Solving Competition On Earth

Blender GuruPřed 4 měsíci

Sure the mice are cool, but can we talk about the animations at 8:40? So impressive! No idea how they were made, but it really helped understand the concepts. Hats off to the team behind them.

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  NinjaCLAWPřed 4 měsíci

  Ikr its soo cool... Alsoo hello there blender guru you taught me blender thanks for that XD

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  Just_isPřed 4 měsíci

  Yoo

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  dutch boesPřed 4 měsíci

  Ay the doughnut man

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  HopefullyNotYouPřed 4 měsíci

  AGREED

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  Quincy PurcellPřed 4 měsíci

  Hello donut man

TomaPřed 2 měsíci

Ive never once studied robotics but it seems to me that this sort of thing would be a great introductory course to the subject

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  KlenomPřed 16 dny

  Sorry bro, but this kind of thing is so far away from introductory, introductory robotics are like: open and closing a gate, or lifting up some wheight with a motor. Actually doing robots its on the midterm of robotics, and competitions like this are endgame things.( Sorry for the possible typing errors)

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  Fourth NumeralPřed 16 dny

  ​@Klenom I think he meant it in the way of being introduced to the potential of robotics during introductory courses. Show students the possibilities, let them imagine the what ifs, and then the basics begin.

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  KlenomPřed 16 dny

  @Fourth Numeral Excelent point man, didn't saw that way, it is a actually awesome way to introduce robotics.

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  ZrenPřed 10 dny

  Its actually really not that far out there to use this as introductory robotics, even in a practical sense! Before I went off to college, I participated in a highschool robotics competition that McGill University hosts, which does exactly this. All the equipment is standardized with a few customization options, and over the course of a couple days they introduce the different features and how to write code on the arduinos that drive the little mice, and then you have a sandbox day to try different things with different mazes before you submit your final version for the contest. They use very simple mazes, and you have very few options for sensors, but in my opinion it was the perfect level of challenge!

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  Jose GonzalezPřed 9 dny

  In my university it's a class they teach you to code and then at the end you build a micro mouse or a robot that does something like following a path then lifting a can or moving some servos to carry stuff. This class is on the camputer/electrical engineering idk if there is something similar on computer science since they only do coding and stuff while we do hardware and some coding.

HomituPřed 26 dny

Whoever does the animations to accompany the explanations for these videos deserves a raise! Those were top notch and absolutely vital to the effectiveness of this video!

Kyle JolyPřed 2 měsíci

As an F1 fan, I got extra excited once I saw the tape cleaning the tires. The way they interact with the track surface in various disciplines (shown very well here!) is fascinating.

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  Rizqy Aqil HerlindraPřed 2 měsíci

  don't forget the fan car too

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  Fanu 24Před 2 měsíci

  @Rizqy Aqil Herlindra like the Brabham BT46B "fan car"

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  Seldom NeedyPřed měsícem

  Formula One: **Bans cool, wacky, and clever ideas, including active-suction designs.** Micromouse: **Remains cool and relevant by welcoming innovation of all kinds.**

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  Anankin12Před 21 dnem

  ​@Fanu 24or the brand new Gordon Murray T50.

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  Anankin12Před 21 dnem

  ​@Seldom Needythat's to be expected, though. Many of the cool ideas were 2 steps away from catastrophic incidents (ground effect is one such example: it will stick you to the corner untill it doesn't, then you'll be so much over the limit of normal grip that nothing you do will influence the car; and this could happen by chance if even a little bit of air gets in. Nowadays it's not a problem anymore, but the same applies to many other innovations. They could have left in asymmetric brakes tho)

proningtigerPřed 2 měsíci

A circular maze would be fascinating! Really adding cool maze shapes

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  Mattia ColomboPřed 4 dny

  As a start, even an "off-grid" walls' design would be challenging to solve

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  Ashwani ShahrawatPřed 7 hodinami

  that Inception scene...

DougPřed 2 měsíci

The "Strategy" illustrations of how the mouse could reach its goal are fantastic. And all the explanations from the narrator, start to finish, are also excellent and easy to follow. Fascinating video.

cup o stuffPřed 4 měsíci

Those turns are unreal, it looks like the mouse is simply teleporting across across certain parts of the maze

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  XtreeM FaiLPřed 4 měsíci

  That one micro mouse surely do that once it hits 88mph.

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  ICommentOnAlmostEveryVideoIWatchPřed 4 měsíci

  ​Dont_Read_My_User_Photo ok

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  nkronertPřed 4 měsíci

  Pardon the pun, but it is a-mazing how advanced these tiny robots have become, both in speed and intelligence. 😮

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  unocualqu1eraPřed 4 měsíci

  Dont_Read_My_User_Photo TL;DR

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  Your FanPřed 4 měsíci

  That's what you get with 2 independently controlled wheels.

FiddleFaddlePřed 2 měsíci

I just spent 25 minutes engrossed in a video about tiny robots trying to solve something you find in the Sunday paper. This channel continues to amaze.

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  GinGaming_GGPřed 2 měsíci

  You forgot to add all the times you rewound so you could see it again...

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  Ju4nPřed 2 měsíci

  I see what you did there. A-maze

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  Ashrak KrazleganPřed 2 měsíci

  A-Mazing!

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  FiddleFaddlePřed měsícem

  @Ju4n 100% unintended, but sure, I'll take the credit 😬

tonyandressPřed 2 měsíci

When you got to the mice that used fans for down force I was sure that you would mention the Chapparal 2J race car by Jim Hall. It used two big fans to remove the air from the boxy, skirted body. So effective that the concept was banned for the next season.

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  Alae riiaPřed 2 měsíci

  There's also the fact that the 2J was hideous.

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  KayJbluePřed měsícem

  Same here, he said “unlike racecars they could engineer a new mechanism” when that’s exactly what they did lol.

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  PrimePalPřed 19 dny

  there was also f1 car with same idea, upgraded? version was being built but loophole was closed before it was finished. called Brabham BT46B which only ran in official race once. and it won by over a half of a minute but after it won FIA declared that fan cars are never allowed in f1 race ever again. but since it was legal when it raced, it kept its 1 win from 1978 Swedish Grand Prix and joined with other cars that have technically 100% win rate.

Bowie TwomblyPřed 2 měsíci

I got SO excited when you got to the part about turning forces, and I guessed right before you said it that they were creating vacuums to hold the mouse. I’m not usually a very mechanically minded person, and it was really a joy to have an AHA! moment organically like that. I am so appreciative of the ways that you can share other’s passion in such effective ways. I didn’t know or care about robotics in the slightest before this video, but now I’m excited to see what the future holds for micromouse optimization.

Emmett Howell EnbyPřed 22 dny

Humans are absolutely beautiful. Both the people competing and over 12 million people on CS-tv are invested in the idea of making a tiny robot solve a maze and it’s so random and came from just one person and now it’s huge. Sometimes I need things like this to remind me humans are pretty neat sometimes

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  I'm not a good person at allPřed 10 dny

  Its just a shame that science and technology isn't the average human's main focus. The average human is more focused on materialism or climbing the social hierarchy ladder. If we were a mainly scientific species, the world would be such a better place.

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  phun wengPřed 3 dny

  @I'm not a good person at all In short, nerds should take charge of the world.

Investing for your futurePřed 2 měsíci

Very cool production and supporting animations. Feels like the next level for these competitions would be to make the maze multi-level with multiple ingress and egress points to the different levels, along with non standard shapes like "circular" rooms and hallways.

Call me AndoRuPřed 4 měsíci

One thing I like about this engineering competition is that, since there aren't heavy financial incentives involved (like pretty much any other engineering project), people are given the chance to try whatever they want and be as innovative as they like.

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  feha92Před 4 měsíci

  Even with incentives, all they would need to be innovative is low costs for parts and work, and rules allowing multiple entries per participant (and no entry-fee)

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  Raymond QiuPřed 4 měsíci

  Literally, if this competition doesn't show that capitalism doesn't produce innovation, i don't know what will

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  Mi' the MermaidPřed 4 měsíci

  @Raymond Qiu You cannot argue that because A causes X, that B does not cause X as well...

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  jursamajPřed 4 měsíci

  @Raymond Qiu You don't understand the way capitalism does innovation. If there is big money riding on something, the capitalists will do quite well at figuring out how to get that money. It is only once they dominate a field, and risk becomes expensive, that they stop innovating.

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  chrismathewsjrPřed 4 měsíci

  @jursamaj capitalism doesn't do innovation, people do. begging engineers to read one ounce of Marx

BirdPřed 2 měsíci

This could be a truly incredible education tool. A simple version of this could get kids an absurd amount of basic STEM skills. (A mixture of guides and some of the hardest stuff pre-built, but with a lot left intentionally unclear forcing kids to experiment and look at examples outside their class and figure out why things work the way they do.) But what's more brilliant is that I'd bet it would be pretty easy to get kids amped up and competitive so they want to do it instead of being made to do ot.

Emil AntonowskyPřed 26 dny

This was absolutely fascinating. I never knew this existed. Thanks.

Kindred AutomotivePřed 2 měsíci

I’ve watched these clips for a couple years now and always thought it was interesting but you absolutely nailed the writing on this!! Awesome story and I now have a deeper love for this competition. I race cars and I always looked at this like a programming competition. Now I see it much like Formula One or Battle Bots. The drive to innovate for an advantage is compelling. Well done!

George ZotoPřed 10 dny

Great episode, thank you for doing all the research behind it. Love the explanations you gave, the algorithms behind it and the special moments over time :)

PeterCPřed 4 měsíci

As an electronic engineer, this is one of the most epic electronic engineering vids I've seen. Thanks Veritasium

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  Tushar KuntawarPřed 4 měsíci

  Same

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  baconheadhairPřed 4 měsíci

  Np i got u

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  LavernPřed 4 měsíci

  So am I, I saw the length of this video and thought: "Eh not gonna sit and watch for 20 mins" but I got absolutely enthralled. Really considering making one!

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  Jay TravisPřed 4 měsíci

  IIT has a course called CS 102 you might enjoy

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  Dr. BLAAPřed 4 měsíci

  If _elevation height_ isn’t a “violation”… why not just launch a drone (aka: map~>process~>drive)💁‍♂️

paul kennedyPřed měsícem

Impressive and scary how quick and accurate they can move.

Lubomir IvanovPřed 22 dny

Some of the most interesting science videos EVER! ❤

Bear NaffPřed 29 dny

My favorite cameo for Micromouse came from an early episode of the long-forgotten but groundbreaking sci-fi TV show, Max Headrom. Micromice competitions were a part of the curriculum of a school for gifted youngsters that were involved in the plot of an episode.

Dudeman9339Před 2 měsíci

This is one of those things that perfectly demonstrates the difference between simplicity and difficulty. The concept is simple, get through the maze quickly. Doing it the quickest is difficult.

Alan RobertsonPřed 2 měsíci

I'd never heard of this before - thanks for the excellent video explainer, really impressive to see the innovations and speeds they achieve!

NeuroPřed 4 měsíci

Once you understand what goes into mouse navigation, this goes from appearing as odd nerd behavior to something genuinely impressive.

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  SantiagoPřed 4 měsíci

  Yupp I think that's most things. That's why I love learning! Appreciate life!

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  Charlie BabyPřed 4 měsíci

  well said. youre hired

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  Comment FreelyPřed 4 měsíci

  and when they put machine guns on them and send them into tunnels after humans...

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  Revi M FadliPřed 4 měsíci

  Same with any sufficiently advanced "odd nerd behaviour" tbh

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  sirfer6969Před 4 měsíci

  Be that as it may, those are some shockingly weak mazes with **many** paths to success. Lets get some AI generated mazes in there where excessive diagonals are not included...

KA-1Před 2 měsíci

My Computing Science teacher made this an assignment in the first semester even when we barely learned how to do loops. It's such a simple to understand yet complex problem which sparked my interested in the CS field.

Rahul DhargalkarPřed 2 měsíci

As a biologist, I see evolution acting on these machines :) So cool as I never thought I'll be soo intrigued by mechanics, robotics, programming, etc altogether 😅✌️ And the entire credit goes to Veritasium! You remind me my love for science.

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  Rahul DhargalkarPřed 2 měsíci

  Talking about evolution, I would love if Derek makes a video on evolution, what modern synthesis means and the common misconceptions.

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  Jeancaseven RLPřed měsícem

  All these systems stuff were inspired by biologists, so your interest and passion about these topics is natural ♥✌

NoahPřed 19 dny

I never knew this was a thing and...wow... This is sick. Great video as always! Thanks

style nikoPřed měsícem

This is so interesting!! I didn’t even know they had such competition but glad I got to know this exists!!

KonradPřed 2 měsíci

I commend whoever did the script for this. Precise explanations and never a dull moment.

Mr. WilkinsonPřed 4 měsíci

It’d be cool to see a maze with different elevations throughout.

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  nfn worldpeacePřed 4 měsíci

  or a 3d object which could have intersting shortcuts depending how the maze wraps around

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  ArunuPřed 4 měsíci

  That's exactly what I thought!!!

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  MacallanPřed 4 měsíci

  And opposite burms and different textures and bumpy sections

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  Fay SmithPřed 4 měsíci

  @Macallan rally mouse

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  unfa🇺🇦Před 4 měsíci

  Non-euclidean mazes :D

The Red TreePřed 2 měsíci

never knew about this but saw the competition 100 times in social media, pretty good explanation and looks fun to try on my own when I continue my bachelor in AI.

Joseph WatsonPřed měsícem

Thanks for this very interesting video. Many years ago, Richard Browne, who worked as a technician for Bell Telephone, had seen an article published in the company newsletter that described and showed pictures of Claude Shannon's electronic mouse. Knowing that the mouse used telephone relays to control its motions and solve the problem and having access to scrapped telephone relays, he restored some relays and set out to duplicate the whole thing. The original published article did not detail how it was all done, so my friend figured it out for himself. I remember that the memory for each of the 25 cells of the maze area required two relays which recorded the direction the mouse had last left that cell. Near the end of this machine's life ,somewhere around the late 1970s, I met and became friends with Richard. I saw the machine myself and was thrilled by how well it worked. Later, Richard went on to build marble machines, intricate wooden machines that allowed a marble to pass through various gravity-driven paths. Sadly, Richard passed away in 2013, but you can still see his videos about some of his marble machines. Although never completed, his grandest machine, called Marble Machine 3, was one of his creations described by Richard in videos here on CS-tv.

WhateverItzMeePřed 2 měsíci

With the suction motor it actually got even more mousey by being able to climb walls. 😂

Macho FantasticoPřed 2 měsíci

This is really cool, I like stuff like this. Love how you explained how they solved the mazes, fascinating.

mstreichPřed 2 měsíci

One of the first complex programs we assigned to beginning programmers was a maze solver. These are amazing little robots.

The Astute AnglerPřed 2 měsíci

You kept saying "shortest path, shortest path" and me, a past courier driver, kept screaming at the monitor "THE SHORTEST PATH IS NOT ALWAYS THE FASTEST PATH!!" Lo, at 11:00, you made my day! Ladies and gentlemen: Derek Muller, never afraid to challenge dogma.

Tux PenguinPřed 4 měsíci

I'd love to see a 3D micromouse maze with all sorts of walls and ceilings and loops to drive on, using vacuum fans to stick to the surfaces

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  Praveen MotamarriPřed 4 měsíci

  or use a drone micromouse

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  Vaisakh K MPřed 4 měsíci

  @Praveen Motamarri drons, but as small balls....without any fans outside, and can roll on wall to maximize speed when turning

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  DavidPřed 4 měsíci

  I came here to say this. I see that it's already been said. So i second it.

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  whitneysmiltankPřed 4 měsíci

  Imagine all the possible Fosbury flops

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  Zev LowensteinPřed 4 měsíci

  @Praveen Motamarri there are drone obstacle courses...

DawsiePřed 2 měsíci

I forgot all about this competition, I knew about it back in the 80’s when I first got into the computer industry. Did not follow it as it was out of my area of specialty. So seeing this and seeing how far it has come in such a short time span is mind boggling. Will have to keep an eye on this, there are some really competitive people out there and it’s astounding how the whole field can change over night just from one person thinking outside of the box. Seeing all of the major jumps in the technology over the past 50 years is outstanding. Seeing the first time out of the box to what are being used now is crazy, no wonder it’s gained traction over the past 20 years.

patprop74Před měsícem

never herd of such a race, but was rather interesting to learn about it. Thank you for this little nugget of information.

JohnPřed 2 měsíci

This is what the internet is all about. Some crazy thing I would have never imagined, a whole world. Fascinating

FleaPřed 2 měsíci

The fan vacuum concept had to have come from the Chaparral 2J (built in 1970), which was a race car that used two engines; one of which was to create suction for downforce. Rules were ultimately changed to disqualify it from racing and the suction fan would blow a bunch of road debris at competitors behind it. Anyway, it was interesting to see it cross over into this event.

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  HeksuPřed 2 měsíci

  Or from the much more commonly know fan car, Brabham's one race wonder, which they pulled out because they didn't want to cause too much disturbance on F1 paddock.

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  Seldom NeedyPřed měsícem

  ​@Heksu OTHERS got it banned, you mean. Poor team for wanting to win while thinking outside the box. Perhaps they should've almost just thrown the first few races and pretended to improve their design only gradually. Maybe F1 would be different today and still allow, y'know... neat innovation.

Alex StadigPřed 2 měsíci

I'm wondering if they would ever try to run mice in rounded mazes. I feel like making big leaps in creativity would be to make the mazes less predictable then a tile maze.

John SmithPřed 23 dny

The first 6 minutes I wondered how they are so fast. Thanks for clarifying that they get a study run and a few test runs before.

MarkPřed 2 měsíci

Would love see this competition developed for drones with a cube shaped maze

David SandersonPřed 14 dny

The mice are amazing at 2D mazes. Have the designers considered 3D, with ramps and overlapping floors?

Shreyash YadavPřed 2 měsíci

Claude Schannen also modified Boolean Algebra which was invented by George Boole.He used gates in a circuit that time which are called as switches now.This also has an application in Java in the form of a chapter called as Logigates.Its because of him that helped electronics engineer to simplify complex ciruits into simple ones.A brilliant man in truest sense.

S VPřed 2 měsíci

This could be useful for robot vacuum cleaners, sewage inspections, mapping old buildings, getting behind enemy lines, etc. etc.

TheFinalRevelationPřed 4 měsíci

Whenever I get a notification for his video, I try to wrap up all work and find 30 minutes of spare time to savor his content. Perhaps my favorite creator at the moment. Many creators came and get, this guy never fails to educate, intrigue and entertain. I've been following him for like 10 years or so.

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  Conner CradicPřed 4 měsíci

  Go*

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  Nibird TamuliPřed 4 měsíci

  None could have said better

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  deezor swiftPřed 4 měsíci

  *vsauce has entered the chat*

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  Amanullah ShaikhPřed 4 měsíci

  Same here

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  Otter Get Up and RidePřed 4 měsíci

  V Sauce is another

TamadadooPřed 21 dnem

The sections / structure / narrative of this video, in order to be exhaustive about the evolution and multiple aspects of that sport. Once again, second to none. Great content, sponsors very much on point, and at the end of the video. Amazing channel.

lvcsslackerPřed 13 dny

this is way more fascinating than I thought it was gonna be.

TankenkaNekoPřed 2 měsíci

The applications for this after (considerably) further development are very cool. Imagine these being refined further from micro-mice to nano-mice... something that instead can traverse liquid... and viola... diagnostics in medicine. Or, something that can navigate complex terrain... search bots for people/animals trapped under rubble in disaster zones. While it's certainly useful to have large or complex mobile robots that can do the saving / transporting of life-saving materials or methods... having search/diagnostic/mapping robots are equally important, particularly where time is of the essence. One further application could be in darker cases where people disappear (by natural or nefarious means) and need to be found quickly to be saved.

Star StrudelPřed 2 měsíci

I REALLY want to believe that Masakazu Utsunomiya's "Red Comet" mouse is a Gundam reference haha. A mouse that reaches the goal 3x faster than an ordinary mouse

GrymgarPřed 2 měsíci

This competition is a good example of what the 12 parsecs Kessel Run could mean.

PercivalPřed 4 měsíci

the way they manage to maintain a perfect distance from the walls, and go SO FAST is insane

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  Jean RochPřed 4 měsíci

  Not really. Keep in mind that the microcontrollers in those robots can do hundreds of millions of computations per second. If any uses an FPGA instead, that could be an even bigger number. From the robots' perspective, it must "feel" like driving at 0.01 mile per hour.

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  PercivalPřed 4 měsíci

  @Jean Roch it’s just incredible to watch something so small maintain such precise control from the perspective of someone who has very little experience in robotics.

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  CraftIngoPřed 4 měsíci

  @Jean Roch using FPGA's was also my first thought in reducing the computation times dramatically. I don't think that any of the winning mices are using a microcontroller.

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  Jean RochPřed 4 měsíci

  @CraftIngo I wouldn't know, but don't underestimate MCU's. The fastest STM32 runs at 550 MHz last I checked, that's plenty enough to run this kind of challenge.

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  Auk ah PusingPřed 4 měsíci

  @Jean Roch How about the momentum, power cut-off, and wheel friction, do they calculate all of them as well? I wonder if let's say the sensor and computer can decide the next step fast enough, will the output of the movement be straightforward?

VinateroPřed 2 měsíci

Wow, I was completely entranced by every part of this video. Who knew that these little mice and their inspiration for creativity and ingenuity would be so fascinating? 😊

Timlawyer XPřed měsícem

Gee - I wonder if anyone has thought about adding this type of competition to BSA's schedule of events - kind of like a next generation pinewood derby?

Lazarus CorvusPřed 23 hodinami

This is amazing! New requirement, every mouse must come programmed with the knowledge that I love them 😇

Jaydon ToblerPřed 2 měsíci

Fun fact: That fan technology was initially developed for Formula 1, but was banned for being too effective in generating downforce. However, the Mcmurtry Spéirling actually uses this technology in an all-electric package. And man, that car’s quick.

NjofrekkPřed 2 měsíci

I stumbled upon this video by chance and now I am completely enthralled by this Micromouse thing! Thank for you for a very informative video! :)

TheFinalRevelationPřed 4 měsíci

This is perhaps the only channel whose videos I wait for

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  iPrint3DPřed 4 měsíci

  You need more channels

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  TheFinalRevelationPřed 4 měsíci

  @iPrint3D I follow lots of channels. This one still has my attention after all these years. One thing you'll note is he does not show himself all the time on the camera. He does not appear that often, its mostly his voice.

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  Allan Jr. ValientePřed 4 měsíci

  mine's 3blue1brown

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  deezor swiftPřed 4 měsíci

  *VSauce has entered the chat*

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  Silver VortexPřed 4 měsíci

  Lemmino

Hot StarPřed 2 měsíci

Next steps: 1. Make it a 3D drone race to a destination 2. Add in a challenge so that you need to drop packages off at certain destinations. There are also certain decoy destinations which need to be checked. 3. Allow ability for unlimited number of drones to assist with dropping off these packages. 4. Allow only 2 flights rather than 5. 5. Make decoy destinations as challenging as possible. Once perfected, sell to government willing to pay the most 😆

takeshiAsahiPřed 2 měsíci

I think it would be really cool if they finds an efficient way to pick the mouse back from the track, everytime that dude was leaning into the maze to recollect it, I was getting panic attack.

m0teefPřed 2 měsíci

I wonder if they could design one with variable fan speed for straights so there is less resistance and they can get a speed boost on acceleration and then brake boost on de-acceleration. It could potentially save a few ms over the larger courses.

AjGallowayPřed měsícem

Love this! Thank you for spreading nuanced truth and science!

MicahPřed 2 měsíci

This was freaking AWESOME. NO idea this existed.

Tanvir AhmedPřed 4 měsíci

My respect to all the previous engineers of the past whose mouse was really slow, their consistency to push this competition further paved the way for today's modern engineers. This is one of the prime examples of what humanity can achieve while working together generation by generation.

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  CyAA 0627Před 4 měsíci

  @Mahyar Shokraeian It's part of my humanity to claw my way out of eating nothing but scraps, and onwards into engineering. Saying that feats of science is a waste invalidates people who actually escaped the poverty line through science. It's like telling me that I need to go back down there just because I'm able to feed me and my family now. Instead of being derogatory to science, why don't you just inspire people to aim for this knowledge so they too escape like I did. People inspired me to climb, and so can you.

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  David SvarrerPřed 4 měsíci

  Oh yes, and by playing playfully !!!! While doing the most serious of all engineering works.

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  From The Heart 2Před 4 měsíci

  ​@Mahyar Shokraeianyou don't have to choose. You can do both at the same time.

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  CptBonexPřed 4 měsíci

  @Mahyar Shokraeian I'm sure you spend every second of your life dedicated to making the world a better place and never waste time on any kind of entertainment and you only spend enough money to survive while donating the rest to charity.

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  Doesnt MatterPřed 4 měsíci

  @Mahyar Shokraeian what do you do to stop world hunger?

Guilherme CarvalhoPřed 3 měsíci

Absolutely fascinating, waaaay over what even a nerd like me expected. Many thanks!

Vincent NelsonPřed 2 měsíci

Imagine this device slowing down time while it makes thousands or million of calculations per second, then finishing the maze while all of us think about applauding. 😊

Paul ShortPřed 2 měsíci

What an awesome video. I came into this knowing nothing about the subject. It was informative and educational while being very engaging without patronising me for my ignorance. I cant help but wonder if they can navigate an analogue maze.

Ludix147Před 2 měsíci

I would have enjoyed some more speculation on what might change in the future of the micromouse robots. I can't think of anything obvious that I would improve. Maybe make the algorithm more speed-aware: Tight corners won't slow you down much when you're already going slowly. But honestly, they probably do that already with their fancy path-planning algorithms. Maybe you could do some sort of statistical analysis to uncover common patterns in how the maze is set up and incorporate that knowledge for even faster in-expectation exploration. On the hardware side, no idea. Maybe mainly increased reliability of all components? Improved wheel materials? Even more weight savings?

Juniper WalkerPřed 2 měsíci

It’d be cool to see a maze with different elevations throughout.. It’d be cool to see a maze with different elevations throughout..

XSPřed 4 měsíci

Man, seriously.. The guys behind the video editing and simulations in your videos are pure genius. Wish I could meet such guys to learn from.

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  Andrii MakukhaPřed 4 měsíci

  🤔

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  koenamhPřed 4 měsíci

  They are Veritasium, mate

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  Hugh ManateePřed 4 měsíci

  @koenamh He's got a team behind him nowadays right? Did Derek make the animations? Does he still do his own editing?

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  MondyTS | 3D TutorialsPřed 4 měsíci

  ​@Hugh Manatee I'm 99% sure he doesn't

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  SephiloudPřed 4 měsíci

  @Hugh Manatee Just look at the end of the description to see who made what in this video. Pretty detailed so i like it xD

186scottPřed 2 měsíci

This reminds me of something similar called code space although the goal is something different the objective is to score points by collecting your assigned colour and dropping them off at a drop off point and the robot is also autonomous and at the end of the round who ever has the most points wins

NFITC1Před 2 měsíci

I built a really clunky maze solving robot for school decades ago. It was horrible and didn't even solve the maze :P I love the idea of a competition like this. If I had time and expenses I'd try it too.

ZünderPřed 2 měsíci

How stable are those walls? A potential way to get even faster would be to bounce around corners without slowing down there at all.

CheesemakerPřed 2 měsíci

Maybe moving forward by backward and backward by forward, could be a great strategy if the micromouse has diagonal back sensor and front sensor, that allow them to process more data of the path with multiple intersection without the need to rotate to return to the path

Rajan ChavdaPřed 2 měsíci

Combination of different engineering fields working togather in very optimized way in such small robots. So cool... 💥

Anjay VPřed 4 měsíci

As an electronics engineer this was one of my favorite projects that I have ever done. From the firmware, circuit design , algorithms and mechanical design every part of this robot is just pure absolute joy of engineering.

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  LuctorPřed 4 měsíci

  Do you mind giving me inputs? I am an EE student and I want to know what I need to know and any other things required to try make one

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  Ricardo MilosPřed 4 měsíci

  bro, are you bald?

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  XogeneralPřed 4 měsíci

  as normal guy , i salute you electronics engineer. as a normal guy

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  Sebastian JostPřed 4 měsíci

  I wonder how common extreme weight optimization is... Drilling holes into PCBs, using the lightest materials available, shaving them down to barely not break. Surely that could get you a few ms due to faster turning speeds. Also, how relevant are aerodynamics on this tiny scale?

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  David PicklesPřed 4 měsíci

  Pin this

MePřed 2 měsíci

It could be interesting to add areas where the floor is elevated into a type of corkscrew with curved corners (imagine a slinky stretched lengthwise down a path) to make good use of the suction and some extra flair

Vyas PentakotaPřed 2 měsíci

Next Micromouse challenge might have uneven floors, banks, reflective and mow-through walls, varying friction with sand, and maybe even step squares.

Alexander SanguinoPřed měsícem

Precisely those paradigm changes to be better are what define the history of human technology. Congratulations, excellent video.

OreoPřed 21 dnem

I’m amazed that we managed to turn a bunch of tiny circuit boards and wheels into a machine that’s capable of going the same speed as an F1 which reminder if you go in front of one it can and will turn you into a fine mist.

colin5577Před 2 měsíci

What a great little documentary. I enjoyed it from beginning to end and learned about something totally new to me. Nice job.

PhotophonePřed 4 měsíci

20:20 Imagine a giant cylindrical maze where the mice can go upside down. Or even a maze with loops like in Sonic, so the mice will have to account for more than a 2D map of the area.

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  acemad1Před 4 měsíci

  I’m thinking 3D mazes in water or air mazes. But, surely, one can complicate it even more, adding rare shapes to it or even simulating 4 dimensions, building a tesseract.

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  Marius 007Před 4 měsíci

  It really has stopped being a maze solving competition, it's about movement execution.

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  Appletank8Před 4 měsíci

  Imagine quadcopter maze running.

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  天使TenshiPřed 4 měsíci

  mario kart 8

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  NoMoNPřed 4 měsíci

  A Möbius-Maze?

lendialPřed 2 měsíci

its wonderful to see the passion and creativity people have for solving problems

Lu GruPřed 2 měsíci

I have a question about mazes… What happens if they are multiple layer (not for those robots just in general) How would you go about solving this? As an example you have a maze and beneath or on top there is a second maze and obviously they are not independent but one maze so there are stairs or ladders going up and down branching off and therefore you have completely isolated rooms or places in the different layers that are only connected through the different layers.

JosipPřed 2 měsíci

Had no idea about any of this. What a gem! So interesting and very well made!

Charlie RickerPřed 2 měsíci

It's pretty cool that when this thing started, the robots looked and moved nothing like mice, but now, 50 years later they really do. The way they take corners looks just like a little mouse.

Juan HerselmanPřed 2 měsíci

This seems like a fun thing for me to try as a newbie in the field of Python

みやてゃPřed 4 měsíci

As one of those who missed the podium of the All-Japan Competition this year, I can tell you that the level at which they are competing for the champion is on a completely different level. one of them mentioned that he changed the optical rotary encoder disc from plastic to paper, making it 0.15g lighter!

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  udaysaleenPřed 4 měsíci

  what do they mean i cant attached nuclear reactors and rocket propulsion to my micromouse

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  BloopPřed 4 měsíci

  Well on a micro scale that 0.15g could be something like 3 pounds relatively

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  Hellsong89Před 4 měsíci

  So they have already swapped steel to carbon fiber screws or axles or straight to adhesives to save weight? Biggest issue i see with these advances seem to be that its money game to manufacture lightest parts witch require high quality tooling to produce well as having already wealth of knowledge on the robotics. Sure i can plan maybe even lighter mouse with things mentioned, but i'm decades behind on building the software to level where i could even compete.

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  BloopPřed 4 měsíci

  @Hellsong89 skill issue (couldn’t resist)

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  Ghost of SpartaPřed 4 měsíci

  Is jumping allowed?

Ed ZehooPřed 2 měsíci

I wonder if you could make a mouse that could take the video feed of where the yellow box is from above, and then estimate a leap across the maze to land in that box.

sgvpotterPřed 2 měsíci

okay, now... i want to see ramps and levels (like a clear plexi bottoms so you can see the level below). I want to see traps (like magnet delays or rotating spots). I want to see two competitors at once. Make it happen!

Bence PetheőPřed 2 měsíci

I'm wondering if the concept could be transferred to small drones flying in 3D mazes

BhaskarPřed měsícem

As an Electronics Engineer, I thoroughly enjoyed this.

Fynn JacksonPřed měsícem

This is a metaphor for the many different strategies for navigating life. What a time to be alive!!

Nicolas Silva A.Před 4 měsíci

even including fans for suction? these guys are insane, the amount of work put onto this

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  TruepennyPřed 4 měsíci

  When I first saw the footage I wonder where they were getting that much traction from and my assumption was magnets (and the maze was built on a metal plate) but doing it with a fan is a far cooler solution to that problem. Self contained as well.

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  Nicolas Silva A.Před 4 měsíci

  @Truepenny i thought it was similar to the road used in drag races, the road is pretty sticky, but yeah you're right

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  TyrunzPřed 4 měsíci

  And what is so cool is that as long as you stay in the general rules that keeps the spirit intact, no one will tell you "no you can't use that it's too good"

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  BlechfuchsPřed 4 měsíci

  F1 teams were experimenting with that technology in the 70s (as far as I remember), but such fans were prohibited by the technical rules after only one season as fan failures in turns or cars hopping over curbs was devastating and even fatal.

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  Do you want to give me le kiss?Před 4 měsíci

  When you think about it, it is actually quite obvious to every car geek. There have been tons of ground effect cars, including the chapparal 2j (with a fan), or in formula 1 the lotus 78/79 (with skirts), or the Brabham (with a fan, but different), etc. So IMHO, yes, surprising, but also obvious at the same time 😂

DwaynePřed 2 měsíci

I love when i stumble upon a sport or a whole ass competition that been around for many years, but i had no idea about 😂. I used to think subsections like this was just a bunch of weirdo's, but it's genuinely cool to see people so interested in something so niche that it grows into something that brings like minded people together to just be themselves. Learned something new today

strikerPřed 2 měsíci

Interesting to see contestants manually retrieving the micro mouse from the maze instead of another robot placing and picking them up.

Martin HeermancePřed 3 měsíci

I have built several maze solving robots and it is great fun. But none of mine are remotely at this level.

The Green ReaperPřed 2 měsíci

I just had a thought, I'd make one to split in 2 in order to map out the maze, maybe that would be interesting, not sure if it'd make it any faster for the last run. The 2 parts would communicate via blue tooth.