A robot designed and built by Mitsubishi recently set a new Guinness World Record for the fastest time for a robot to solve a Rubik’s Cube, with a lightning-fast time of 0.305 seconds. Wow, that’s less than a third of a second. It takes me longer to blink!
The TOKUI Fast Accurate Synchronized motion Testing Robot (TOKUFAST) can perform 90-degree rotations of a cube side in just 0.009 seconds. The robot scans the cube’s colors and uses a proprietary AI algorithm to solve the cube as quickly as possible. In the video below, it solves a cube in just 0.204 seconds, although the measurement rules for this solve were different from the one when the world record was set.
My personal best time for solving a Rubik’s Cube? I’m at about 30 years and counting. It remains unsolved ever since I got it when I was about 8. I’ll occasionally watch one of those YouTube videos where one of those Rubik’s Cube savants explains how to solve one, but I quickly lose interest and am back to watching cat videos before I actually learn anything.
[via TechEBlog]
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