Micro Robot Sport Draws Mega Crowds (Video)
It's not unusual to see crowds of fans at a rock concert, or even of the major ROBO-ONE competitions, but we have to admit that the crowd in the photo on the right just totally blew us away.
What are they watching? A micromouse competition! The video below was taken during the Mouse X competition at Techfest 2008 IIT in Bombay, India a few months ago.
Keep in mind that in the US, where the sport originated, a micromouse competition is lucky to attract any attention at all. In the UK, there seem to be more fans and fanatics, but still it wouldn't make the evening news unless a plane happened to crash on the building where the event was taking place. Even here, the annual All Japan Micromouse competitions are lucky to draw several hundred fans - though quite a few entries fly all the way from India and Singapore.
These guys, and gals, are really serious. The robotic future, at least technology-wise, belongs to them unless the rest of us wake up and smell the coffee.
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