OpenAI, the artificial intelligence development company co-founded by Elon Musk, just released software that lets an AI-powered robot hand that solve a Rubik’s cube by itself. After years of ...

A robot hand called Dactyl has successfully solved a Rubik's cube using a training regime that the AI behind the scenes created. The deal here isn't so much that it was able to solve the Rubik's cube, ...

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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 ...

If you've ever tried to solve a Rubik's Cube, you know how hard it can be to do that, let alone do it fast. Frank Morris of member station KCUR reports on a couple of software developers in Kansas ...

Rubik’s Cube-solving robots are far from a new idea. In fact, while the human record holder can solve a cube in just 4.22 seconds, the fastest cube-solving robot does it in a little over half a second ...

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Not only is that significantly faster than the human world record of 4.59 seconds, but it’s also a big improvement on the official robot world record of 0.637 seconds, as set in late 2016. The ...

OpenAI, a San Francisco-based research group focused on studying artificial intelligence to help humanity (and founded by Elon Musk), has released footage of a robotic hand that's trained to solve a ...

Seriously, technology rules. Mostly because it’s able to solve those seemingly unsolvable problems. Probably the most iconic brainteaser of all is the Rubik’s cube which, while sometimes being solved ...

This robotic Rubik’s Cube is the product of a Japanese creator who’s documented many of his creative projects on his YouTube channel, Human Controller. Yes, it has a custom 3D-printed core attached to ...

When future generations look back on 2018 what will they remember? Not much, I suspect, except for this amazing robot that can solve a Rubik’s cube in .38 seconds. The video, above, shows the cube in ...