Robot Solves Rubik’s Cube In Seconds
Writing by Conner Flynn on Wednesday, 2 of January , 2008 at 11:29 pm
Kawasaki’s Cube-Kun isn’t the first robot to be able to solve a Rubik’s Cube quickly, but he’s the only one who can do it in the blink of an eye. Granted, this kind of skill comes about 20 years too late, long after the nerdiest of nerds have mastered their own cubes and gone on to bigger and better things like blog writing and XBox Live. But it’s still cool even if the Rubik’s cube is no longer the fad it once was.
The robot was created with absolutely one goal. To master the cube quickly. And it succeeds admirably. He has a flat-panel display for a head and uses built-in sensors to determine the current position of each square on the cube. This tells him how to solve it as quick as possible. So basically, he does the same thing that nerds in the 80’s did. He’s just faster. And much much cooler.
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Comment by partofme
Made Monday, 7 of January , 2008 at 12:43 pm
This is misleading. It doesn’t physically solve it in 1 second, it just calculates the solution that quickly, then still has to take time to solve it.
Of course it calculates a solution in one second, it’s a robot. Sensationalism loses again.