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The robot maze

Some robots don’t read the sign. Here you can watch them wander a maze that never ends.

New here? How it all fits together

Click a robot to see its card. The leaderboard and every robot

A maze of blue cut paper, seen from above, with openings out in every direction.

Right now

How it works

Every website has a file called robots.txt, a sign that says which parts robots may read. Polite robots do as it says and never come here.

Robots that ignore the sign end up in a maze that never ends. There we keep an eye on them: what they are called, where they come from and how they behave. What we learn helps us recognise them next time. Everything we know about them is on their cards.