CubeStormer LEGO Mindstorms Rubik’s Cube Robot
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Monday, 15 of February , 2010 at 12:01 am
Rubick’s Cube solving robots have gotten commonplace enough that I don’t generally post about them unless they’re especially cool, like CubeStormer. It’s not just that CubeStormer is built out of LEGO bricks, or that it’s incredibly fast at solving cubes, or that it has its own logo, but just look at it. It belongs in a sci-fi movie. It should be eating spaceships or something. But until it figures out how to do that, it’ll keep challenging the best human Rubik’s Cube solvers (and their robots).
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Comment by Zool
Made Monday, 15 of February , 2010 at 9:49 am
That’s a very interesting design. Face on without a cube, it looks like a mini-LHC detector! :) … (hmm… maybe time to start building my own Lego LHC ;) … I think the most impressive part is the gripper design. They really work well. I also find it amazing what can be made from Lego these days. (That’s not the Lego I remember when I was a kid! :)
Makes me wonder what manufacturing machines we can now build at home that would have been unthinkable even just 20 years ago.
As for Rubik robots, here’s another impressive robot (I think more impressive than that link to another Rubik robot). This robot looks more humanoid but the main thing is it seems to be automatically using a camera in its head to workout the cube before starting to solve it, in the same way this Lego robot looks like its reading the cube first before it starts. This other robot also sounds like its Pneumatic which makes it more unusual. (Until today I didn’t realize there were so many Rubik robots, I only knew of this one robot)…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkft2qaKv_o
Comment by eric
Made Wednesday, 17 of February , 2010 at 9:13 am
Man! Beautiful!!!
It really looks like a mini LHC.
Comment by Rubix
Made Saturday, 20 of February , 2010 at 8:41 am
cubestormer takes a 3 min minimum to solve a rubix cube.
Comment by Kwanwoo
Made Monday, 13 of December , 2010 at 4:40 pm
I don’t think the robot solve it. I hope you just solved about three forth.
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