Rubik's Cube Solver Robot

[TheMarteas]

Why would you make a robot that solves a cube why not a robot that cooks/washes dishes for you :)

[BjQrny93]

Asians does it better.

[MrDeerecub1977]

can it lick my ear

[chocolateskater58]

that seems a lot more complicated to build than to actually sit there and solve it

[Badhabitsjay]

People 1

Machines 0

[PoliceLightMods]

It's a University project, but you wouldn't know about University since your a dumbass.

[Rockonstage08]

can it peal a Banana?

[bebop0206]

I'm building something like that.....how can I solve the problem with the clearance between the cube and the motor's shaft??Help me!!!

[Elioslol]

1:Get japanese kid to do this

2:??

3:profit

[Jonnyinter1]

EPIC.

[ThaBelgian]

LOL, true

[leetl00t]

coudlnt solve it yourself so you built a robot to solve it? lol

[Zlaja16]

in order to make tho robot do it you have to know the algorithm to solve it...i doubt that the robot can "solve" hes just redoing steps a human gave him

[iamdirecter]

thats what i'm thinking, but it doesnt look like any of the algorithms i have learnt, unless the big pause was wen it was scanning to see its position and then do the algorithms

[Zlaja16]

i dont know...maybe is it real AI

[spotcube]

It's probably just programmed to do a certain sequence over and over until it's done

[doud0un3]

nope

there's a way to solve a cube.

i can solve a cube in lest than 30 secondes

[irish42matic]

Yet you can't spell....

[doud0un3]

nope, you know why?

i'm french

and i try my best every day to learn english more and more

just when you say that it does help me so...

[PureMeteora]

Yeah good job doud0un3. I support that.

@ irish42matic: I bet his English is better than your French so dont complain about his English.

[xPesKa]

if the reboto took about a minute you can't make it in less than 30 sec.

i'm not saying you're not capable, it's just about the speed to rotate and stuff.

[doud0un3]

no look at the videos on youtube there's about million of video showing people like solving cube in less than 30 secondes

if you dont beleive me we'll go on blogtv and i'll show you

[TheMachanga]

World record is 7.08 seconds youtube world record is 6.57 seconds and my record is 20.51 seconds.

[thecutestneo]

IT STARTED SOLVED AND THEY PLAYED IT BACKWARDS.

morons.

[Furio001]

I suppose they spoke backwards at the end as well?

[ghidfg]

lmao

[doud0un3]

lol XD

[thecutestneo]

It was a joke idiot. *points downwards*

"lmao" and "lol."

Joke. Anyway, if that IS what happened, it would be very easy to put the video on an editing program and add in the voices.

[123kiwi897123]

Why do people always think negative about everything .. maybe it can solve it without being programmed ... just keep an open mind .. damn

[sysconfig]

@ kniborg. Are u serious?!?

[trinabro]

i dont think its programed because if u look at the cube, a light will flash on it which is prolly the robot taking a picture of it then anilyizing the cube...

[greenday762]

Well... It IS programmed but the person that programmed it DID program it very well..

[kniborg]

no fucking shit its programed u dum motherfuckers we dont have free thinking robots that could look at a damn rubiks cube and fix it -_-

[killerdavesullo]

some robot COULD do that but this... no

[yugface]

what about the terminator, he could do it

[xXlarslolXx]

no robot can fix anything, even moving something, without being programmed bcuz we're not able to make robots with artificial intelligence yet, and even, those need programming too

[samstasix]

we weren't born yesterday it's obviously programmed

[scarletboa]

i like how they used rc servos.

[RobertoRobotto]

its probaly programmed to do a certain ammount of spins ...... so some nerd actually sat there writing down wat went to the right place

[descendents1]

i'm sure you could just speed it up...it's mechanical

[fuckmerimless69]

and yet humans are still quicker

[tekkenboi]

that's so programmed

[LindB377]

No... definitely not.

[dragon9910]

actually if you can get a robot to somthing like this than u can eventually get a smarter robot to do somthing better so its not a waist of money

[GGRSC]

so are you

[zmatnoz]

nice one

[XxRaN96xX]

NOW THAT LIFES GREAT MYSTERY HAS BEEN SOLVED Who wants pie?

[bill12poo]

can u make me a robot than make pizza

[FriendFinder24]

hes faster than me

[SeanDalyATeam]

very impressive! Is it computer driven or human operated? Computer I guess 5 stars

[peterlloydsahler]

Probably someone with a decent grasp on English, unlike yourself.

[a69a59b]

oooo a grammer diss, what are u 40 years old?

[XxRaN96xX]

and money

[PyroDexlessX]

i think it was someone's senior design project

[Goldstein87]

those scientist were really bored... or maybe they were just students.... in the last year of my physics degree we do exercises like that

[simariato]

you find it boring?? not me ;)

[deathklokdudette802]

DUDE!!!!!!!OMG!! :D

[SuperRandom3333]

OMG

[diebye]

thats very impressive.

[zyxy45]

This project is pretty cool! I would like to know more, like the programming language, hardware and light sensors used... I wish the author put more details... LOL maybe should I Google sth ;-)

[yes947125]

genius

[Junk3y]

isnt the world record like 15 secs?

[dragonace80]

my friend can do it under that second. i was the one that mixed it like randomly.

[seanchartd]

no.. no he cant.. -.-

[Ichigo15Kurosaki]

omg, thats horrible, i know a kid who can do a rubiks in under a minute he does it every day before tests, lol

[airsoftsniper1005]

you do know thats a computer rite?

[luc2k316]

wow, I cant believe they wasted their fucking time on a useless invention like that lol

[tehQshow]

It's not the invention, or even what it does that's important. The point of this is that everyday, every minute, every second, we are pioneering new technology, and robots are becoming more superior. It doesn't matter if all this one can do is solve a cube, it's not important. What's important is what else this technology can do.

[bokuzenkosugi]

Better than the time your parents spent making your dumbass.

[luc2k316]

should be a space between dumb and ass...

you dumbass.

[bokuzenkosugi]

Wanna play like that? Kay, let's deal.

On your profile, I think you mean "I'm", instead of "Im".

Also, "suprised" is spelled surprised.

[luc2k316]

wow dude,

that's what you call taking something too far to the point that you're just making yourself sound even dumber..

[bokuzenkosugi]

Too far? It took 5 seconds to do.

Fail less kid.

[luc2k316]

dude, you went on my profile to look for the slightest spelling error, thats taking it too far..

[luc2k316]

not to mention, flat out lame...

[bokuzenkosugi]

But it's not lame to point it out in someones comment?

[luc2k316]

you clearly scanned the whole thing.

[bokuzenkosugi]

Which took, as I said, 5 seconds.  I wasn't looking for anything in particular, but hey, I found your own errors.

Now, go back to time out.

[bokuzenkosugi]

No, I went to your profile and the spelling errors popped out at my face.

[seanchartd]

owned

[rhyscannon10]

aaaaahhhh!!! thats how judgement day starts! this will create the next terminator! destroy it quickly!!

[mattycarrano]

make a robot that solves them like the rest of us...

by pulling off the stickers and reapplying them in order.

Then I'll be impressed

[iv81]

it took more moves to solve it that to scramble, might as well reverse the scramble

[ILoveangieHeheheLOL]

oh wow this is nuts! lol nice,

[Daroga1]

woo go Michigan!!!

:P i live just north of this city!!

^_^

[trcwm]

Best one so far..

[michelobob]

Hi,

wow, great job..what software did you use for the image recognition? did you write you own solver? and how did you get the parts? wouls appreciate if you can let me know. I'm really interested in robotics, and i think this would be a nice project to pull off

[MurakumoElite]

I WANT THAT!!!!!!!!!!

[mvanlerberg]

why???????

[MurakumoElite]

to solve teh impossible! XD

[kang174]

Damn that's sick

[Mokupo]

Aren't there more efficient solution algorithms? I didn't count the number of moves, but I'm pretty sure you could solve it in a lot less.

[behind09]

wtf n3rds

=P

[Sigdor]

Lol that'd definatly be awesome to show off.

[Loudmouth573]

how about the kid watching the video?

[grumpyzrp]

omg...

[ozzfestfan01]

i can solve so much faster, just remove all the stickers and replace all the same color on all sides

[KartuneHustla]

And this is why we haven't found a cure for most diseases yet! ha!

[psiquico177]

is so fine

[nokrow05]

.......darn i feel dumb a robot can solve the damn thing but i cant wheres the justice in that.......

[tannerlew290]

thats pretty good

[TheWikipedia]

Soooooooo, why do we need this?

[asiandude94]

because it has pretty colors duhuhduh.

[contributor34]

The electromechanical design is great. But I suspect the whole setup just starts with a completed rubics cube and randomly disorganizes it but records each move and then what we see is it going in reverse order using the recorded steps. Or worse yet, the original film in reverse...?

[DougCube]

Nope. The steel rods are retractable, you can take it out and scramble it yourself, stick it back in and hit START.

[jorkjica]

For this to work, there would have to be a complete visual image of each side. You would need a camera for each side, and lighting would have to be such that no glare or shadowing would cause erroneous color interpretation.

[DougCube]

I do. And lighting was indeed a problem, but we found a way around that by using white LEDs next to each of the color sensors. There was also a black posterboard cone around each sensor to block out ambient lighting.

[contributor34]

Very nice! What a fun project!

[jorkjica]

I think I see the the leds come on and go back off, I guess at that point it no longer needs to see the sides since it has determined all the manipulations needed to solve puzzle. Great work!

[mephiston2k]

Wicked little bit of kit!

[EternalDamnation004]

Amazing

[Zaldor635]

WOW! u should be proud

[Erkki56]

impressive

[CATISCHINESE]

A little Raggety ass but its from Michigan University,So what do you expect?I still think its pretty cool though

[fastskare]

Wow...I would give a $100. for that Machine....

[DougCube]

It costed about $200 in materials to build. The time spent would surely take it to a much larger price tag...

[nuggert]

You know how you can plug in the colors and the computer figure out the steps? Its just exactly the same, but the scanner plugs in the colors of each side in automatically. The steps are then executed.

[loosefinger]

weird shit,, brilliant though

[maybe1235]

nerds

[OllyOllyTrolly]

No, not nerds. Intelligent people, unlike your dieseased brain.

[maybe1235]

wow you must be a nerd too. learn to spell

[t3dd7t]

Oh sh!t... am i how harly make one single face in several minutes. :-S

Amazing !

[justkillen07]

how did u guys make that

[kimarna]

How'd they get the cube into that thing is the question?

It'd actually be easy to write a program for a machine like that as it can turn the cube like a person, so a method for solving a real cube by hand can just be loaded in the computer, and it turns each face as instructed. Much hard to do the one's where it must move the cube so it can turn it.

Nice to see it doesn't take ages scanning all the colours either. But are those suckers holding the middle pieces? It looks like suckers... lol.

[dethlotus]

Wow... but that's nothin' after seeing a 6 year old do it in 37.9 seconds on this site... look it up.

[kiren77]

i know a way to solve it you just paint every side when the cube is mixed up lol

[mab999]

its just a computer.

A ormal Calculator.

But programmed to Move Objects i.e. Rubiks Cube, and not to just do it ona monitor

[Greengromit]

How does the robot work? It appears it takes pictures of the sides every so often to see where to move the rubik's cube. Gr8 vid 5 stars man.

[JazzDogProductions]

I would have done it by 00:01...with a sledgehammer!...woof!...xxx

[92pride]

is the world gonna end?!

[jobu1983]

LOL this made my day

[EggYolk]

awesome

[peretz36]

Cube Solver Robot

[NikkiCowan]

My Robosapien did it in 28 but he's too shy to put it on You Tube. Wicked Robot - If Completely Pointless.