Robot solves Rubik’s cube

Read our feature on the Rubik’s cube: http://www.newscientist.com/channel/fundamentals/mg19926681.800?DCMP=youtube

A student at Florida Institute of Technology shows how a robot can solve a Rubik’s cube using software called Cube Explorer.

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25 responses to “Robot solves Rubik’s cube”

  1. sumiboy88 Avatar
    sumiboy88

    Was that square one …
    Was that square one thing he said a joke?

  2. kskid2 Avatar
    kskid2

    @yojoinman no …
    @yojoinman no rubiks cube can be impossible to solve as long as it has all the peices. say the yellow green edge was moved somewhere else, you just move it back.

  3. hlshlshls425 Avatar
    hlshlshls425

    Silly robot, …
    Silly robot, rubik’s cubes are for nerds..

  4. gummyform Avatar
    gummyform

    Dan brown tought …
    Dan brown tought the robot 😀

  5. AppleTechChannel Avatar
    AppleTechChannel

    That is pretty …
    That is pretty sweet dude!

  6. CoachAlisa Avatar
    CoachAlisa

    kool 🙂
    kool 🙂

  7. dharmastipulate Avatar
    dharmastipulate

    Free energy has …
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  8. nish4speed Avatar
    nish4speed

    61 people who …
    61 people who dislike dont know how to solve it 🙂

  9. smccoy311281 Avatar
    smccoy311281

    that is f*ing …
    that is f*ing amazing

  10. 4362mont Avatar
    4362mont

    you once could buy …
    you once could buy a full set of stickers so you could either “solve it” or screw one up so it couldn’t be solved….showin’ my age…

  11. HYPERZEPHARIAN Avatar
    HYPERZEPHARIAN

    @yojoinman I think …
    @yojoinman I think the programming would crash, but if you did that to someone who can speedsolve, like me, they could figure out exactly how many pieces you put in wrong.

  12. mirioticdbsktvxq1321 Avatar
    mirioticdbsktvxq1321

    Son of a batch of …
    Son of a batch of cookies.

  13. FretFreak02 Avatar
    FretFreak02

    I need a thing like …
    I need a thing like that on my toilet; how awesome would it be to not wipe your own ass

  14. DarkDevilGaming Avatar
    DarkDevilGaming

    damnnnn just …
    damnnnn just awesome ;D 5*

  15. Molo19 Avatar
    Molo19

    your tax money hard …
    your tax money hard at work

  16. 1998christianvelasco Avatar
    1998christianvelasco

    1000000%PURE …
    1000000%PURE AWSOMENESS!!!!!!!!

  17. Dannnneh Avatar
    Dannnneh

    @cool2t there is an …
    @cool2t there is an invention that solves the math problem you type in, it’s called a calculator.

  18. Dannnneh Avatar
    Dannnneh

    @yojoinman the …
    @yojoinman the software program will give an error message, and the robot wont start solving the cube before it has got a command from the program on how to do it.

  19. stabilini Avatar
    stabilini

    creepy way of …
    creepy way of inverting time and money…

  20. IAssemble Avatar
    IAssemble

    @LudvigRenehov – …
    @LudvigRenehov – you could always build yourself one out of LEGO! -See a whole collection of LEGO Rubik’s cube solvers I’ve favourited in my channel 😉

  21. LudvigRenehov Avatar
    LudvigRenehov

    haha awesome! can i …
    haha awesome! can i get one?

  22. plevjuzanis Avatar
    plevjuzanis

    i need this
    i need this

  23. Chillaxa101 Avatar
    Chillaxa101

    smartass robot!
    smartass robot!

  24. maisteri Avatar
    maisteri

    No, because the …
    No, because the robot only receives a list of moves. The software, on the other hand, would probably hang or just give an error.

  25. maisteri Avatar
    maisteri

    So what? The task …
    So what? The task wasn’t to break world records, but to interface a robotic arm with a solver software.

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