[dba-Tech] OT: Robot Solves maze in a stunning 3.9 seconds

That is all so cool!  I just have to forward this to my family's 
robotics aficionado.  He recently came to a family celebration with his 
line-following robots to amaze and astonish us.  He will certainly get a 
kick out of this!
T

Tina Norris Fields
tinanfields at torchlake.com
231-322-2787


On 11/25/2011 11:30 AM, Rocky Smolin wrote:
> I showed it to Noah, my in-house robotics consultant (remember, he bragged,
> how they took second last year in the First robotics international
> competition in Saint Louis?).
>
> He guesses the second one is the trial run for the same robot which is
> mapping out the maze.  The top vid is then the competition to see how fast
> your robot can run the maze with the map it previously mapped.  The software
> challenge there I suppose is to find the shortest path.  The mechanical
> challenge would be to build the most fastest and most agile robot.
>
> Thanks for the link - he's now looking for mouse maze competitions in San
> Diego.  We also looked at the soccer playing robots.
>
>
> R
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> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
> Sent: Friday, November 25, 2011 7:15 AM
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> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] OT: Robot Solves maze in a stunning 3.9 seconds
>
> Hi Arthur
>
> The first one seems to "know" which route to go. How is that?
>
> /gustav
>
>
>>>> fuller.artful at gmail.com 25-11-2011 15:48>>>
> This must be seen to be believed.
>
> http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/min7-micromouse-robot-solves-maze-in-3-92
> 1-seconds-20111122/
>
> The second video shows another robot in the competition, which by comparison
> looks moronic.
> --
> Arthur
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