Micro Mouse is an IEEE contest first proposed by the author of IEEE Spectrum in 1977. It consists of an autonomous robot known as a “mouse” which navigates through a maze of 256 two-inch-high, seven-inch squares in a 16 × 16 arrangement. The robot is self powered and has no knowledge of the maze configuration prior to releasing it in the maze. The first time it is released into the maze, its prime objective is to find a path from the starting square which is located in a corner of the maze to the destination square which can be located in the center or a different corner depending on competition level.