MIT Robot Breaks Rubik’s Cube Record

A robot developed by MechE graduate student Ben Katz from MIT’s Biomimetics Lab and electrical engineering student Jared Di Carlo can solve a Rubik’s Cube in a record-breaking 0.38 seconds.

[cgibbard]

I like how at 0.03x speed, it seems as if more optimisation could perhaps be done by doing a bit of corner cutting rather than waiting for each face to fully stabilise. At those speeds though, you'd probably risk destroying the cube.

[neilbrock]

How did that cube even stay together!?

[kylebooker]

"ahhhh yeeaah" should have played that in slow motion

[Inimbrium]

Presumably that rubics cube is custom made to be extra sturdy. I can't see a standard, off-the-shelf rubics cube be able to witstand those kinds of forces! :)

[Tee.NZ.]

Breaking the record is an understatement 👍

[Retec]

Surely it would've been more productive to solve the problem of sensing the difference between RED and ORANGE !

[Frankiepopo]

Is this more advanced than B the robot??

[nicbentulan]

now i know that that 'whatever happened to robot jones' thing was legit...

[RosaRodriguez-gpgn]

Watch the .25x on .25x speed and same with 0.03x speed you can see it better on 0.03x

[choongta]

So, is the 0.38 sec a result restrained by mechanical movement ?

What would the time be for a virtual cube ?

[loot]

They needed this camera to film DuYuSheng's attempt lol.

[MamajuicyJoyce]

0:02 me finishing cleaning my room even tho I made a bigger mess when my mom comes in with the belt

[ashishagarwal]

So if the purpose is now solved i guess the robot can now move to a museum with due credits

[osmike]

Would never have guessed by the real-time speed that this was 20 moves . Awesome 👍🙂

[grandmasterdonut]

what method does it use?(roux, cfop?) also gan should really watch this

[RAYPOGLMAO]

would be 'world's toughest cube" more fitting imo

[elayda]

one question (it might sound stupid but I'll try): why was the orange tiles painted black?

[ChessBloxdYT]

How come the orange tiles are coloured black

[dumm]

People can be so salty of other people's achievements 🤐

[shypenguin]

Did that robot even use any algorithms or did it just solve it backwards? It looks like it did the latter