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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?)
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.
... 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.
I wondered the same thing -- I think it's because it's switching the video mode from 'regular' graphics to show the camera capture, to '3d' mode to show the opengl rendered cube based on the capture data.
Why aren't you encrypting your e-mail?
It's a LEGO brick robot, ffs! I guess no one at the real robotic industry has decided to invest in a Rubik cube solver robot. The robot's speed surely could be improved a lot using the "right" technology!
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The humans are also allowed to study the cube before their time starts; the time for the robot included the time for the virtual solution.