Ng Beng Kiat from Ngee Ann Polytechnic in Singapore is almost a legend in the Japan Micromouse competitions having taken first place in the Expert Class competitions for the past several years. His robot designs are always surprising and a thing of beauty to watch in action. This year was no exception.
Because his micromouse – MIN4A – had the best time during Saturday’s competition, it had the honor of running after everyone else during the Sunday finals. In the end it missed taking first place by just a small fraction of a second, but Ng Beng Kiat still walked away with 2nd place, a cash prize, a trophy, a big smile, and his well earned reputation still intact.
This video shows MIN4A during its search run (it really does the search that fast – faster than most robots do their speed runs), and then during two speed runs.
I can't believe the speed of these robots. Man its just amazing the last run on the video is just insane.
Posted by: John O | December 01, 2005 at 07:51 PM
Freakin' amazing!!!
Posted by: mp | December 15, 2005 at 05:12 AM
Absolutely phenomenal speed, I just can't believe they don't crash. All they need to do is make them seek fuel and breed and we have developed a better mouse than nature did, well almost, but it's faster round a maze :)
Posted by: Russ Taylor | December 19, 2005 at 09:42 AM
damn koooooool.
it was awsome. i havn't seen anything like that before.
great job!!!!
Posted by: mudit mittal | January 06, 2006 at 01:38 AM
Amazing speed! Doing Singapore proud! Keep it going man!
Posted by: Steven Foo | January 15, 2010 at 06:05 PM