Robot solves Rubik's cube

[magmasceptre]

ahhh the cube stormer is still more amazing, and its made of lego too!

[nka203]

ITS THE ROBOT FROM PORTAL

[markyyy9999]

@nka203 lol yeah :D

[YuneShik]

such a robot already existed years ago

[maniac2040]

"New robotic arm". Are you kidding me? Kids in their basement playing with Legos can make a faster Rubik's cube solver. Its been done 100 times:

/watch?v=eaRcWB3jwMo

[ipodtouchacker]

human is still better

[ZenonDorinPower]

waaw

[pktgfishbone]

I wonder how the robot reacts if you take out one edge piece and put it back in flipped. That'd probably fuck it up.

[HeadShot360IN]

the motors are NEMA23 Stepper Motors

[Metalrasputian]

@jimmybilbo While I wholeheartedly agree with your statement, I think you're misinterpreting what I mean in my argument. Or at the least your analogy seems to be on a slight tangent to what you're agreeing with. I understand the toaster simile but I think it would be more apt to compare it to a logic gate. At fist all they did was manipulate electricity to give an "on/off" signal using 5 volts (or 15 volts depending on your flavor).

[AVerbene]

its so damn loud

[TheRonizzz]

its new way of cheating in solving rubiks cube

[kennyozakie]

this is useless why cant u just solve it your self why do u need a machine to do this for you

[TheMrSlap]

do it again but this time, with your eyes closed.

[Paxmax]

It's the meanest rubiks cube solver ever! CLACK CLACK!!

Is this the worlds fastest electro/mechanical rubiks cube solver?

[civicnation4two]

 computers are mathamatical devices....glorified calculators. you guys spent this amount of time proving that computers can do math?

[MelvinSF]

@civicnation4two If you read the article it says it's built by two students, meaning you can be pretty sure it's a school project. Which means it's a good thing. (Nativesun perfectly explained why in the comment right below yours.)

[swat007jp]

Not bad I could do it in 5 mi. And I'm a human :)

[pokefanluke]

it is faster than me, well cant be that supriced now they need to bet 7 secs

[tehbertl]

wow, it's a robot that can solve a rubik's cube. Real original; I've never seen such a thing before. Meanwhile, cancer is still a pretty big thing in the real world.

[nativesun]

@tehbertl please. by engineering and robotics students learning IMPRESSIVE things like this - they're paving the way to learn the technology and problem-solving techniques needed to do the things you sarcastically mention. what are YOU doing to solve cancer? oh, that's right nothing. so shut up and applaud the ingenuity of these kids like everyone else with sense is doing.

[jimmybilbo]

@tehbertl Yes, let's all focus our intelligence on cancer, and let the amazing advances in the rest of all technology and inspiration dwindle!! I agree 1000%.

Your comment shows your ignorance. Someday, robotics (and even now) are used in cancer treatment. The fact the application was a cube-puzzle have no bearing on the ultimate output from people learning to solve problems. I bet the best problem you've solved is how to piss in a toilet properly.

[Usethebanana]

@jimmybilbo

:oD

Cracking me up!

I agree and I like your style! :o)

[LumpyBumpyAcidFish]

if only l had a roter arm

[Destro7000]

SHOW-OFF.

[GMdark11]

fucking show off

[giascle]

It's like a new kind of techno.

[Kargoneth]

Loud. Yeesh. interesting design. I have seen other cube solving robots, but this is the first I have seen that partially swallows a cube in order to rotate the segments.

[narsingdih]

when can i buy one?

[MicrosoftsourceCode]

what a waste of time and technology. I could do the cube 30 years ago. There people that can do it blind fold. I thought technology was meant to do things we don't like doing over and over. What next ?machines that make you orgasm lol.

[megatron20000]

Wtf, pretty soon girls will love 'em instead of us..

Fuc*** stop making robots, will ya huh?? :D

[eruptionation]

where is this ?

[nayminsuksen]

So cool! Greet mechnical design. It can rotate 6 side without moving the rubik.

[BradFazner]

surprisingly human is still faster

[jeremyshambles]

now they need to program so it can make me a vegetable lasagna

[kokorosenshi]

for the lulz, "ah sure, thats great and everything, seeing how its raping a rubix (i know its mispelled, i dont give a fuck) cube to solve it, but can it cure cancer?"

[kokorosenshi]

eeehhhh......did we just witness a rubix cube getting raped?

[dickhead8989]

20 years later robots will to it to our necks.

[AtomicKennen]

I am impressed by the robot's ability to attract girls.(This is the part where you let your imagination run wild)

[Kaiserks3338]

20 years later.

Robot knows how to harvest energy from humans.

[leejw00t354]

Never seen this before. Just imagine in the future kids will probably have lego robots doing this!

[newmarsvolta]

would be interesting, but i saw this years ago... dude where is this "new"scientist you speak of?

[Ephemerance]

Old news. This is the quickest machine I've seen, but the technology has been around for some time now.

[Tressco]

It cuts & glues extremely fast!!

Kudos!

[JayJayAbels]

Cool physical manipulation but I'm fairly certain that the robot wasn't doing the calculations on its own.

If I'm wrong then yes... impressive.

[Metalrasputian]

PS: I totally use that Agilent Oscilloscope in school :D

[CodyTheDuck]

lol weird how the champion recored (it was like 6 seconds i think) was human and a robot took 26 seconds

[jimmybilbo]

@CodyTheDuck Nothing weird about it. We're still better than robots at some tasks. Especially those with hand-eye coordination that aren't pre-programmed.

[RamsesReturns]

Interesting... years ago people would have celebrated such a feat by a robot, but most people now are so tired of technology invading their lives that they have an overall bad taste in their mouths and are basically saying screw you you damn robot.

[FoFivem]

look at it show off in the end.....you bitch!

[do0me0nice]

I've seen robots made of lego that do this faster :P

[LogicalThinker667]

i am faster than that

[thenovadeus]

epic!

[garrettej8]

waste of metal!

[744268]

In 18 seconds that robot did what took me 6 months to do. Damn you science, damn you.

[leedoyeon]

@744268

but imagine how long it took the software engineer to program the robot, and how long it took the mechatronics engineer or whoever to actually make the robot. That'd make it way longer than 18 seconds.

[Idler81643]

A big MEHH. This has been done to death by Lego Mindstorm enthusiasts.

"The system uses a camera to capture how the cube is scrambled and sends the images to a computer."

Where's the camera? And don't the time STARTS when it start scanning the positions?

CubeStormer can do this and it INCLUDES the scanning time..

[Pigboy501]

its like fucking the rubik's cube

[moneynut88]

@Pigboy501 LOL

[fitobcnfito]

That is not impressive at all, rubick cube can be solved by doing basic repetitive movements... this needs of no intelligence what so ever, is pure mechanics.

Maybe they have some algorithms used to decide the best mechanical move to get to the solution faster, but is still not as hard as many think.

Try chess and that will impress me more.

[RicerEater1978]

yeah, that looks like a good investment

[HappyNeil]

cool

[calmetosis]

The thing here isn't the speed but the ability to solve random scrambles... At least they say so... =P On the Blog

[MUJAHID56787]

Thats not even that fast a guy did it in 6.56 seconds

[fitobcnfito]

@MUJAHID56787 because he thinks, and this machine does not.

[leedoyeon]

@MUJAHID56787

=O that's what she said about you!

To all seriousness, that's not the point.

[htakahashi]

cool!

[Darqon505]

we dont fucking need this!

[Yvessam]

@Darqon505 and why not? it's trough little projects like this one that we discover things we can use in other bigger projects that ARE more important

[Darqon505]

@Yvessam search youtube right now for rubiks cube robot, there are tons of them

and what else in this world needs to be rotated and solved like this? where is the real-world application?

[farvision]

@Darqon505 The real world application is to sell more Rubik cubes!

[Metalrasputian]

@Darqon505 I think the application is more in the programming than the physical manipulation. You have to remember that all the scientists in the world don;t just go "Hey guys, check out this cool thing I made." Most keep it to them selves and thus everyone else has to try and figure it out how things are implemented. A rather inefficient way to progress scientific intrigue if you ask me.

[jimmybilbo]

@Metalrasputian That's the thing with robotics, it's everything. Not just the end result, but the processes inbetween.

It'd be like someone complaining that a toaster (robot) was just something you could do by heating bread slices in an oven. Of course it is, but it's self-contained, does the job properly, and the end result - toast, can be made millions of ways. The way THEY made it, is by a robot that can grasp and be programmed to solve or at the very least repeat algorithmic patterns.

[Metalrasputian]

But it's what they're applying it to is what counts. In essence this could have been to see if they could integrate colour analysis and logic to solve this problem.

[Metalrasputian]

It would seem pretty useless since you can use a diode to do the same thing. But what people didn't realize was that this was an application of a diode on a smaller scale, leading to the development of microprocessors and other computing technology. In this case, it's a simple Rubik's cube solver. Many people have built it already, and with less expensive methods.

[Metalrasputian]

@jimmybilbo And by no means am I trying to shoot you down or anything, just seeing if we're on the same page :)

[Yvessam]

@Darqon505 it's not because if a robot can only walk, the only things I'm gonna learn from this project is going to be about walking. it can be from thousand other things... in the algo... the prototype... the way they used to arrive there... new devices used for this robot... new microcontroller... etc. Or when you have something new, you don't immidiatly use it in something BIG. You first use it in something simple like this, and then try to make it even better.Then you can pass to a other lvl

[jimmybilbo]

@Darqon505 maybe learning how to build robots that have the ability to manipulate objects like humans? did you think of that?

[CognosSquare]

Now we can finally industrialize the solving of large quantities of rubiks cubes.

[fox9ninja]

Why learn to solve the cube yourself when you can build a robot to do it for you!

[JoshuYT]

Chill out, dudes.

The whole process was made by university students lol.

[madjimms]

Didn't we see a video of a different robot doing this like 6 months ago?

[Snow4Life222]

wtf you cant even make a robot that can solve a rubiks cube faster than a human. Now when will you guys be using our money for useful stuff?

[loneone01]

WHY ARE WE FUNDING THIS!?!?!

[kazimann]

Another useless creation.

[Alexrose12345678910]

So what? Have you not heard of Rubot? Rubot scans the cube with its webcam eyes, tells you how many seconds it'll complete the cube in and then does it in the minimum number of moves with both its hands. Go look it up on youtube.

[HeyImChinese]

@Alexrose12345678910 look it up on what?

[TWODOORFXorlando]

Very cool!

[Illkiron]

Oh, come on.. I usually don't complain about any weird inventions, but this, this is ridiculous.

[rutgersemp01]

Wow! This has totally not been built from lego like 300 times and is a complete and utter leap forward in robotics research!

[jakethe22]

that's an Asian robot

[Shockszzbyyous]

haha humans are faster :D

[hcortens]

@Shockszzbyyous faster than 15 seconds? lol!

[luddomatic]

is it faster than human ?

[zuma5278255424]

@luddomatic some people are faster than that.

[CommanderKairu]

They had a robot that could do this for a while now. O_o,

[Bombsgalor]

WOW HE CHEATED HE USED A ROBOT! XP

[1BustedMyth]

Very cool !

[z3253304]

but how is this going to cure caner?

[ItchyFlea1]

@z3253304 In the exact same way useless comments like these will.

[z3253304]

@ItchyFlea1 boosh

[OniLinkSword]

It took off the stickers, I saw it!

[MarktheSharkSheehan]

when robot become more efficient than humans there will be no more humans

[sooooooooDark]

"first we wanted to create something that could give handjobs to everone - then we realised we could do something more usefull and came up with this idea.."

[Swampymcswamp]

I count 14 seconds.

[defect530]

how is this going to cure cancer? hahahaha

[Cyrathil]

@defect530 Probably the same way commenting "how is this going to cure cancer?" on videos will.

[defect530]

@Cyrathil it was a joke

[Cyrathil]

@defect530 That joke stopped being funny after the billionth time it was used last year.

[Deviantial]

@Cyrathil Wait, it was funny?

[Cyrathil]

@Deviantial Apparently it was to some people, but any humor it might have had died from extreme over use. The joke was worked into the ground, and now people are beating a dead horse/joke.

[bonecuss988]

wow, this definately hasn't been done before >_>

[sangreiti]

vampire robot nazi who are also zombies will use this to kill us all

[jhobbz45]

old news

[wwickeddogg]

Did the computer figure out the moves or was it programmed to run that sequence?

[debit256]

@wwickeddogg I'm pretty sure the computer scanned to compute out the correct moves. Otherwise, this would be bad engineering, a computer that can only solve only one specific pattern on a Rubik's cube.

[wwickeddogg]

@debit256 lol, I agree, but nothing is mentioned about the computer, only the arm which moves the cube. The arm is probably fully programmable, just a question about whether it is attached to the program that solves the cube.

[debit256]

@wwickeddogg The robotic arm could already be fully functional on its own with a program embedded into its chips to solve Rubik's Cubes; the wires could just be for power.It could also be that the robotic arm scans the Rubik cube and sends that data to an external computer that computes the moves then sends the instructions to the robotic arm to physically execute the instructions.This second situation is more useful if the hardware required to compute the instructions can't fit in the arm, etc.

[Masterkan8]

@Oxydox i know next thing it going to work on is our necks D: lol

[mitkoogrozev]

yeah we know robots are good at math :D

[KennyGJE]

Sounds like me when im playing with the rubix cube

[manicmads]

Dan Brown is cooler than this robot.

[Zoiros85]

It is proven that any rubik's cube configuration can be solved within 25 moves, some estimate that the true upper bound is as low as 20 moves.

[needmorereality]

@Zoiros85 Actually last year Google donated some of their computing power and every possible position was proven to be solvable within 20 moves. Pretty neat stuff. If you search "God's Number is 20" you should find the site that lists some info.

[Zoiros85]

@needmorereality Yeah! I remember that! Tried to find the exact number, but only found 25! Thanks m8.

[lilacfun]

17 moves in total, with one corner fixed all the time, nice

[Clausfarre]

What will they think of next? A computer that plays chess??? It's a crazy world folks.

[bodryn]

As I once read in WIred magazine, truly "The future doesn't need us". Humans need to breathe earth's air. But robots can travel throughout the solar system.  All they have to do is get some artificial intelligence, and then.... GREY GOO!

[firemarshall007]

@bodryn i would like an economist to see how much robots would make if they were people.

[bodryn]

@firemarshall007 I think they'll crave electricity like we crave money. Is that the electrical greed they talk about? :o)

[Hopienme]

THAT IS SO PROOO :D

[thatgaybloke]

How about a robot that can open a tetrapak milk carton without the contents going everywhere?

[Runef12]

If just this rebot arm could make a beef, then I'd buy it.

[richwaight]

That is amazing!

[BeortheMad]

I've seen robots made from lego that do this faster :P

[Withless92]

@BeortheMad question is was the cubes the lego robots solved scrambled in a preset order?

[TheSoundDepo]

LOL

[rokeziukas]

Beware , they will take over the world muchacha

[RevDevilin]

fast ;-)

[tERtasdf]

the fastes done by human is around 7 seconds

[Ethiopiabuzz]

They taking over ,

[PureCore]

i like the end ...=)

[qtzlctl2012]

dumb. this has been done a million times by LEGOS

how the fuck is this new and/or scientific?

[mrquikscoper]

@qtzlctl2012 i dont think they do it in 14 seconds

[qtzlctl2012]

@mrquikscoper so? they made it faster wow. Put the video on TopGear then

[trimi38]

Tax money at work.

[LNOL]

That one's faster than the older versions.

[Cheebzsta]

That robot's all like "Suck it, Will Smith."

[w00per]

yawwwnn old technology. this would only be interesting if the system would first figure the algaritme out by itself.

[mszs]

The cube must have been adjusted very carefully, otherwise the robot would have ripped it apart.

[dersqrc]

but will it blend?

[jackster1990]

@dersqrc that is the question!

[davidjohn83]

what a waste of money

[EntinludeX]

One less thing I have to bother trying to be good at. Thanks, robots.

[adriank1223]

@EntinludeX lol

[DeagleBeagle]

wasnt this done years ago?

[CosmosPrivateer]

Employee of the month 2040.

I welcome the robots to do our work maybe we can start thinking as humans beings again. We just need to figure out how were going to survive with no income after these robots take our jobs.

Robots can make other robots.

[Akalack]

soo...uhh..hey science...wheres that uhh...you know...cure for cancer?

[Tr1pTr0p]

@Akalack Its... uhh... up your ass, thats where it... uh... is.

[Akalack]

@Tr1pTr0p uhh...nope...pretty sure its not...uhh....maybe scientists should start working on important shit like that instead of a robot that can solve a rubix cube...

[Tr1pTr0p]

@Akalack Well maybe you should get your complaining little ass out of your mom's basement, go to school, become a fucking scientist and work on it.

On the other hand, are you really that fucking shallow and think there are no people in the world who are actually at this fucking moment working on a cure for it? If you think that, then I'm really sorry for you.

[Akalack]

@Tr1pTr0p science isnt my thing and i hate doing math, id rather stick with music or something that actually interests me. and no im not shallow, i know there are people working on a cure, but dont you think it should be a more concentrated effort considering how serious cancer is?

[iamdamasta1]

@Akalack Have you actually researched how much effort already goes into finding a cure for cancer to be able to say more needs to be done? I'm not saying I have I just wanted to say that unless you're aware of how much research already goes into it you can't really criticize it.

Also it is a bit hypocritical to imply others who aren't interested in looking up a cure for cancer but prefer making robots who solve cubes should work on a cure, when you yourself prefer doing what interests you.

[thatoneguy1020]

@iamdamasta1 thank you for saying that it really get annoying when some people cannot seem to realize the there are many type of scientist in our world. it as if someone is to get frustrated that a medical scientist can build a fly car...

i too understand would wish they could find a cure for cancer for my grandmother sake... but researcher are doing al they can right now... and plus they have developed a new screening for cancer in recent days.

so i hope this reenforces your statement.

[MysticalFlyingMonkey]

@Akalack Not everyone cares about cancer. And the world most certainly does not revolve around it. If more scientists are interested in finding a cure for cancer, good for them, but the world doesn't have to stop in order for it to be discovered.

And do you know the amount of time and money has gone into researching it? A bloody lot! And technology needs to advance, i think, in order for us to better understand other things. Cancer is just one of our many problems that need to be understood.

[rafaravioli]

Won't be long now before we serve our robot overlords.

[BluncheonMeat]

Reminds me of an episode of "Whatever Happened to Robot Jones".

[pixelsalt]

lolx, humans still win ;)

[totian99]

WOW u finally cured cance.... Never Mind