Take some inspiration from this maze-solving robot mouse. It take the idea of a line-following robot, and makes it infinitely more cool. The tiny rover uses sensors to map out a physical maze.

In all that time, the ruleset has remained essentially unchanged. The autonomous robot mouse navigates a 16×16 maze creating a map. It then determines the optimal solution for future runs.

You can indeed use one of the Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Cons as a mouse, and Nintendo has a Rocket League-style sports game featuring robot characters in wheel-chair-like vehicles to fully demonstrate ...