When Lego Meet Rubik

Credit goes to memepool for bringing you word of Lego robot that solves Rubik's Cubes. This is one of the most jaw-dropping things I've ever seen. Dedication is defined as rebuilding "left and right grabbers six times (and the bottom grabber four times) trying elastic bands, Technic shocks, and pneumatics" in order to grasp that little cube.

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IBM ..

[SirSlud]

... already solved this one with Deep Rubik.

damn

[jred]

I can't even solve one of those :)

That's the hard way of solving the RB

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

This Lego machine is great, but it's an overkill : anybody who has played with a Rubik's Cube knows the best way to solve it is to peel off all the colored stickers and glue them back on in the right order.

Re:That's the hard way of solving the RB

[tmark]

I always liked disassembling the blocks and putting them back in such a way that the cube could not be solved at all, then leaving it for someone to try and solve.

Re:That's the hard way of solving the RB

[Nightpaw]

I, for instance, did my rubik's cube three times in the two minutes it took me to write this post. Without looking. Beat that.

I've had sex. With a girl.

Re:That's the hard way of solving the RB

[Puk]

I, for instance, did my rubik's cube three times in the two minutes it took me to write this post. Without looking. Beat that.

I've had sex. With a girl.

In the two minutes it took him to write that post? Definitely slashdot material.

-Puk

And of course...

[ackthpt]

When it was assigned to interpret the 2001 tax code it was the first robot to disassemble itself as an act of suicide.

Finally

[wbav]

Some source code to solve my cube! I've been working on it (off an on) for years. It's really a problem when I get 5 sides and someone comes in and trys to solve the last side for me.

It is very simple.

[the_other_one]

Use six cans of spray paint.

Slashdotted already!

[Anonymous Coward]

Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80040e14'

[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Line 1: Incorrect syntax near ''.

/inventions/invention.asp, line 64

Proof that Microsoft software can't withstand the power of the Slashdot Effect.

See? I'm not a nerd.

[kingrat]

I can solve a cube...have been able to since I was like 8. Now I know I'm not a nerd.

No.

A Nerd will build a Lego robot to solve the cube for him.

/me reconsiders visiting /. again, as he now knows he's not a nerd.

:)

LEGO Mindstorm Professional, v8.2

[ptutko]

September 7, 2006: Billig, Denmark, (AP) - LEGO announced today version 8.2 of the popular Mindstorms robotic kit, targeted for the home consumer. Previous versions sold to industry have had great success in automatic pencil sharpening robots, latte-fetching robots, and the now popular PDA-linked Mindstorm with vision sensors that can manuver underneath desks (link to: Corporate Workers Protest Upskirt Robots).

This version of the Mindstorms robotic kit comes with grapple features including metric socket wrenches, screwdriver, and air-hammer attachments. LEGO hopes that these new features and applications for home repair use can continue to spur the market need for these "little home helpers," as the New York Daily News called them.

"Who knew," said Margaret Whipple, mother of three and currently a stay-at-home, neighborhood, home owners association attorney, "that when I bought my initial Mindstorms kit to walk the dog, that I could now have a second kit to rotate the tires on my car!"

LEGO sees the home repair market as enormous, according to Lars Ulford, managing director of LEGO's newly formed Mindstorms For The Home division. "You will be able to download home repair programs over your wireless PDA, and uplink them to your home robots. These little buggers can then fix your faucets, rewire the electrical panel, and change lightbulbs. All this frees the consumer from those dreary, everyday household tasks."

In a related story, LEGO denies the rumors that they have developed a semi-sentient Mindstorms "dog" that attacked the CEO on a walking tour last week. "It was just a minor electrical short," says LEGO technician Hans Trachet.

Now let's mess with its mind!!

[digital_freedom]

Okay let's take the stickers off and put all of the same color on the center faces of each side. Then let's see how smart this robot is!

A human would either throw the cube out the window or just move the stickers back.

I wonder how Deep Blue would handle it if you pointed behind it and said, "Omigod, it's ENIAC". While its terminal is turned, you flip the board... I hope I can name that defensive move after myself.

How fast?

[shekel]

So how fast can it solve it?
The article doesn't say?

Apache running on mindstorm would work better

[lowy]

If only their webserver were built from Lego:


Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80040e14'

[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Line 1: Incorrect syntax near ''.

/inventions/invention.asp, line 64


Anyone have a link to a cache or mirror? Sounds very cool.