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In today’s modern world, where cars can park themselves and be summoned with the press of a button, it perhaps shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that there’s a robot capable of solving a Rubik’s ...

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A robot called the Sub1 Reloaded can unscramble a Rubik’s Cube in 637 milliseconds – considerably less than the fastest human time of 4.9 seconds. The robot, built by self-driving chipmaker Infineon, ...

So much for the glory of man. Absolutely obliterating the current human record for solving a Rubik’s Cube (4.904 seconds), a robot managed to crack the code to the famous puzzle in a mere 1.019 ...

A team of four students at Purdue University has built a robot that can solve a Rubik’s Cube in about one-tenth of a second The robot, which the team has dubbed the “Purdubik’s Cube,” solves the ...

As if it isn’t crazy enough that a 14-year old set the world record for solving a Rubik’s Cube in under five seconds last November, a couple of software engineers have now built a robot that can crack ...

The Rubik’s Cube was a smash hit when it came out in 1974, and continues to maintain a following to this day. It can be difficult to solve, but many take up the challenge. The Arduino Rubik’s Solver ...

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If you've ever picked up a Rubik's cube with no instruction on how to solve one, you know how frustrating and how useless it is to try. Teenager Lucas Etter holds the world record for fastest Rubik's ...

Some Kansas City software developers built what they believe is the world's fastest Rubik's Cube-solving robot. They built it in their spare time, partly because one of the guys wanted something to do ...

Two software engineers who built a robot that can solve a Rubik’s Cube in 1 second are hoping to beat a world record. Jay Flatland and Paul Rose say their machine can finish the 3D combination puzzle ...