RoboDev: Rubik’s Cube Solving Robot (And Human)
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Sunday, 23 of November , 2008 at 3:16 am
This is probably the most entertaining thing I saw at RoboDev this year. A group of students from UC Berkeley built themselves a Rubik’s Cube solving robot capable of solving as random a cube as you decide to stick it with. A little random, a lot random, it doesn’t matter… The robot (after a few seconds of thought) can typically solve a cube in 23 moves or less (sometimes way less). The robot is not only visually interesting (hey, it’s a cube!), but it’s also easy to use: show it the cube you want it to solve, and it’ll duplicate it for you, without, I assume, just replaying the randomization sequence on high speed reverse.
The guy in the video, Dan Dzoan, is no slouch himself… He was recently the world record holder in one-handed Rubik’s Cube speed solving. He may not be quite as fast as the robot he built (what irony!), but I’m not sure if the bot really counts as one handed, and it certainly can’t top this:
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Category: Artificial Intelligence, Competitive, Hobby, Novelty
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Comment by Carlen
Made Friday, 19 of December , 2008 at 7:34 pm
Haha! It’s not as fast as EVE though!