Almost ten years ago my university roommates discovered a very interesting and challenging programming game: RoboZZle. We spent weeks writing little programs for a robot, that would navigate a labyrinth to collect rewards. Now as a small step towards self-programming AI we are launching a project to beat RoboZZle programming game with machine learning.

Introduction

About the game

There are thousands of community-made puzzles. Puzzles are 16x12 fields with cells colored red, green, blue, or black (impassable). There’s also a robot, and a set of one or more rewards to collect.