The CubeStormer can solve the Rubik's cube in less than 12 seconds every time. And it looks like it could it be a StarGate. Prepare yourselves, humans!
Be warned my fellow humans, robots will not be satisfied until they defeat us in even the most trivial of contests. Cube Stormer is the latest creation from Mike Dobson, aka Robotics Solutions, and not only is it made entirely out of Legos, it can solve any 3×3x3 rubik’s cube in less than twelve seconds. Often it can finish in less than five! This thing looks badass and is incredible to watch. Check it out in the video below.
We’ve seen some impressive robots from the Lego Mindstorms community before, most notably the fully functional model of an ABB Flexpicker. Little did I know, however, that these Lego bots were out to solve the Rubik’s cube. Cube Stormer is just the latest and fastest of these robots, there are many others. Something else I didn’t know: 12 seconds isn’t even a world record for cube solving. The fastest human solved a randomized cube in around 7 seconds. Don’t believe me? We’ve got that video, too!
Still, if 12 seconds isn’t a world record, 2 seconds is. That’s the fastest we see a Cube Stormer solution in the video. The fastest human average time for five solves is around 10 seconds. I’m guessing that the Lego robot could defeat this time by a significant margin. What does this teach us? Robots are better than humans even when it comes to colossal wastes of time. Oh, and robots are becoming more advanced everyday, even amateur robotics are impressive now, yadda yadda yadda Singularity, Kurzweil, future!
Sorry. My mind needs a distraction after the psychological trauma that is watching one childhood toy (Legos) defeat another toy (Rubik’s cube) in a pitched battle. Maybe I’ll go work on a Sudoku. Lego robots haven’t attempted that yet, have they?
DAMMIT!
[screen capture: Robotic Solutions]
[video credit: Robotic Solutions, Tilted Twister]
Tags: cube stormer, Lego Mindstorms, Mike Dobson, robotic solutions, Rubik's cube, sudoku, world record
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that sudoku one looks so retarted it takes forever to scan it its like 2 stars a five year old can do it quicker than that thing
I think you mean “retarded” there Skippy!
I can hardly get things out of their packages,…
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It's “LEGO bricks”. Not “Lego”. You should use it as an adjective, not as a substantive, as stated in TLC's policies.
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Right, I wonder how the state of the cube is recorded so quickly, that will definitely take some quick programing or circuitry. The high speed interface between the software on the laptop and the four mechanical actuators is what is cool in this.
From Wikipedia: “In 2007, Daniel Kunkle and Gene Cooperman used computer search methods to demonstrate that any 3×3×3 Rubik's Cube configuration can be solved in 26 moves or less. In 2008, Tomas Rokicki lowered that number to 22 moves.”
So if your computer algorithm is pretty fast in finding the optimal solution, you just need a robot to perform about 3 moves per sec to beat the world record.
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I think the fact that the mechanism for CubeStormer was made purely out of LEGO “toy” plastic building bricks is amazing! As Aaron observed, there are a number of other LEGO robots around that can solve the Rubik's cube. Recently two were demonstrated that have a sophisticated enough mechanism to allow them to solve the 4×4x4 and 5×5x5! Just search for “LEGO 5×5x5″ on YouTube
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I should really be working on my legos site!
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It deserves mention that the 7.08 second world record is pure solving. He has time prior to that to actually look at the cube.
The 12 second solve of the CubeStormer includes six rotations before it starts solving, since it does the ’scanning’ of the cube on the timer. It still doesn’t quite reach the world-record level, but if you just count the pure solving time, it’s closer to 10 seconds.
Erf, me being retarded. I meant the 10.75 second solve is closer to a nine second solve if you don’t count the scantime.
Teaches me to doublecheck the video before shooting a quick comment. =_=
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