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Lego NXT Bot Beats Rubik's Cube Record
kkleiner writes "The current official human record for the Rubik's cube 3×3×3 puzzle is just 5.66 seconds. Now a robot called CubeStormer II did it in just 5.35 seconds. CubeStormer II is controlled by four Lego NXT 'bricks' that communicate via Bluetooth with a Samsung Galaxy SII smart phone. A special app on the phone takes a picture of the cube, solves the puzzle virtually, and then relays the solution to the Lego robot. From click to finish the whole process takes just seconds."
This is what you call a Hack
Is anyone in the medi-uh listening?
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
... would like to congratulate our new Rubik's cube solving Lego overlords!
(That's the first time I've ever had a chance to post that, does that mean this meme is dead dead dead?)
Nothing short of amazing...
I guess I will have to stick with making non-robotic LEGO models
Shouldn't that be 3x3x3? Or has someone has invented the two dimensional Rubik's cube?
I always thought a 15-second "cube inspection time" was kind of a cheat!
So, I take the statement that someone "solved" Rubik's cube in "5.66 seconds" with a grain of graphite.
But some people are OK with that nonsense: http://worldcubeassociation.org/regulations/#speedsolving
bah, you fill in the rest.
RETURN without GOSUB in line 1050
A robot with fast hands! Now THAT is a push towards robotic friends for geeks.
Having to work for a living is the root of all evil.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d0LfkIut2M
I for one welcome our new Rubik's-cube-solving robot overlords.
None can defeat me on the Cube 0. Well, in the abstract, at least.
... it's that it looks so damn cool doing it!!!
It looks like some sort of contraption you'd find in a Sci-fi movie.
Mod me down, I shall become more off-topic than you could possibly imagine.
Why does the screen on the phone go black at about 14 seconds into the video?
(tm) (c) patent pending
Less needed day by day....
If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people
This is really cool, but it's not a fair comparison to a human. Human trials are performed using timer mats. That is, the human has to pick up the cube, manipulate it and return it to the mat in order to stop the timer. Since this lego device cannot perform those manipulations, it's not doing the same task. Surely, the pickup and putdown add a few tenths of a second to the human time.
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a slightly slower, yet far more terrifying rubix cube bot can be seen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaRcWB3jwMo&feature=player_embedded
I don't like rubiks cube world records because the speed you can solve a cube with any given method often depends on the initial configuration. If you are going to compare two solvers head to head you had better start them with an identical configuration, or the results are tainted by the possibility that one cube was 'easier' than another. Granted, 5.6 seconds is pretty damn impressive for any reasonably random cube, but I have a hard time convincing myself he could do that consistently with different cubes.
In defense of man-kind, we actually have to pick up the cube from a table, solve it, then put it back down. So if we could start with the cube in our hands as soon as the clock went off, I bet we could finish a lot faster too.
Why does it need 4 NXT bricks? Do they not have enough I/O? Maybe there's a market for an NXT port expander.
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