1981 – Quester Micromouse – David Buckley (British)

See Quester details and other references in David Buckley's website here. Quester was originally designed to be a micromouse maze solver, and later converted into a general purpose robot with  added gripper (see above).

David also has a reference to the history of Micromouse competitions here.

For the original Micromouse competition, "The Amazing MicroMouse Maze Contest" c1978, see article here by Donald Christiansen.