New record: robot solves a Rubik's cube in 0.38 seconds

in #robotic7 years ago

So far, the world record recognized by the Guinness Book of Records is 0.637 seconds, which was established by the German engineer Albert Beer and his Sub1 Reloaded robot.

The new record cuts the time in half: 0.38 seconds. Then you can see the video of the feat (if you do not blink).

Rubik

The researchers, including a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, realized that they could solve the cube more quickly by using a different type of motor on their robot.

His contraption used two PlayStation Eye cameras from the old PS3 console to identify the cube's configuration. The motors took about 10 milliseconds to turn one side of the cube, with each movement that lasted approximately 15 milliseconds in total.

We realized that all the quick solvers in Rubik's cube used stepper motors and we thought we could do better if we used better motors.

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I had this cube and it took me over 2 days to complete two sides of the cube and you are telling me a robot completed it in 0.38sec? I think i need this robot lol

or more practice, the robot implements a new one if you want to read more I leave the link record http://blog.cactus.zone/2018/03/rubiks-solver-software.html