Sunday, January 13, 2008

A Robot [Rubot] Knows the Rubiks Cube Solution

Now when robots eventually conquer the human race and make us their slaves, not only will they make us suffer for the way we treated them (I am sure at one point in your life you have slapped punched or otherwise hit an electronic device to get it working properly), but now they will able to laugh at us when they solve Rubiks Cube in 35 seconds.

So what am I rambling on about?

I found this video of a robot called Rubot II, that can solve rubiks cube in just over 30 seconds! Watch the video below to see the Rubik robot in action.



I must say that this is an amazing invention. It's pretty fantastic to see something like that solve Rubiks Cube. After watching the video a few times I noticed something that kind of "cheapened" the whole experience. It looks like all the robot did was just do the opposite of the what the girl did to mix up the cube. Watch how the girl initially mixes up the Rubiks Cube, it looks pretty deliberate and planned out.

Despite this flaw I am still impressed that someone took the time to build an entire robot the can solve a Rubiks Cube!

1 Comment:

PMSS said...

Since my childhood, I tried to solve Rubik’s Cube. But due to my lack of inteligence, I could n’t solve that.
I realised from experience that I can’t solve Rubik’s Cube without knowing algorithm to solve it.
Just recently, I solved rubik’s cube from the videos I uploaded in the website.
This wesite which is given below is easy to learn for any beginners, who don’t have
any idea for solving it.

http://www.solverubikscube.com/