The robot eventually got around all obstacles in a series of maze experiments, according to a press release. The work was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on May 23.

For the uninitiated, the aim of the game is to guide a marble through a maze without falling into any holes. The player controls the movement of the ball by rotating two dials, which tilt the board.

Trash Gobbling Robots Cleaning Lake Tahoe and Beyond! Science Watch a Robot Shaped Like Pasta Escape a Maze These "soft robots" could help us gather energy from natural environments.

In a paper published Monday in the journal PNAS, the researchers made the robot out of a plasticky material shaped into a translucent corkscrew, able to navigate by interacting with the barriers ...

Human-like brain helps robot out of a maze It’s been known for some time that organic neuromorphic robots can learn. Now they can move too. Autonomously. Peer-Reviewed Publication ...

More by Saugat Bolakhe This article was originally published with the title “Lego Robot with an Organic 'Brain' Learns to Navigate a Maze” in SA Mind Vol. 33 No. 3 (May 2022), p. 10 ...

In the stands, onlookers support their friends while waiting for their own turn on the gymnasium floor. And in the centre of it all, two small robots sit at the starting line of a ...