Can a tiny mouse-robot really outrun an F1 car?

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]With that much friction, micromice today can turn corners with a centripetal acceleration approaching 6 G's. That's the same as F1 cars.

[00:00:12]Once nearly everyone equipped fans, the added control allowed builders to push the speed limit on micromice. When it's allowed to, it will out accelerate a Tesla Roadster, but not for very far.

[00:00:25]And they can zip along at up to 7 m per second, faster than most people can run.

[00:00:30]Every one of the features now standard on the modern micromouse was once an experiment, and the next Fosbury Flop might not be far off. The first four-wheeled micromouse to win the All Japan competition did so in 1988, but it would take another 22 years of the winning mouse growing and losing appendages before four-wheeled mice became the norm. With micromice still experimenting in six and eight-wheeled designs, omnidirectional movement, and even computer vision, who knows what the next paradigm shift will be.