This article was written about a robot built as a final project for some computer engineering students. it is known as MaXimus. it is an autonomous robot built for indoor environments. It runs on batteries and moves on two wheels. This robot was designed to find its way through mazes. It goes through a maze the first time, calculating the fastest way to get to the end. Then it runs through the maze a second time using the data it gained on its first test. This time it can make it through the maze without any mistakes. In order for the robot work, they had to program it to tell if it had hit a dead end, if there was a wall there, or if it had already reached the end of the maze.
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It would have been difficult to program a robot to fins its own way through a maze. However, these students managed to do it and their resulting robot, the MaXimus, is quite effective. It has to run one test run of a maze, and then it can go through the maze perfectly on the second run. In addition, the robot is small and only costs about $500 to build. if it was made to look more ornamental,this robot could easily be marketed a toy. It also looks as if it could easily tip over, so it might be more effective with a better system or other functions added onto it.
a picture of the robot, showing why it might get knocked over, or loose its balance easily
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