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The student-built Purdubik\u2019s Cube set a new Guinness World Record by solving a Rubik\u2019s Cube in just 0.103 seconds. | \ufeffPhoto: Matthew Patrohay \/ Purdue University<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n

A team of Purdue University<\/a> students recently set a new Guinness World Record<\/a> with their custom robot that solved a Rubik’s Cube in just 0.103 seconds. That was about a third of the time it took the previous record-setting bot. But the new record wasn’t achieved by simply building a robot that moves faster. The students used a combination of high-speed but low-res camera systems, a cube customized for improved strength, and a special solving technique popular among human speed cubers.<\/p>\n

The Rubik’s Cube-solving robot arms race<\/a> kicked off in 2014, when a robot called Cubestormer 3<\/a> built with Lego Mindstorms parts and a Samsung Galaxy S4 solved the iconic puzzle in 3.253 seconds – faster than any human or robot could at the time. (The current world record for a human solving a Rubik’s Cube<\/a> belongs to Xuanyi Geng, who did it in just 3.05 seconds.) Over the course of a decade, engineers managed to reduce that record to just hundreds of milliseconds.<\/p>\n

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Last May, engineers at Mitsubishi Electric in Japan claimed the world record with a robot that solved a cube in 0.305 seconds<\/a>. The record stood for almost a year before the team from Purdue’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer \u2026<\/p>\n

Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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