In november 2015, improved fourteen-year-old Luke son of a bitch is the record rubik’s cube solve’. He did it in 4,904 seconds. A Lego machine with a Galaxy S4, it could in 3,253 seconds. Now have two engineers built a robot in 1,019 seconds.
In the video knows the robot is the puzzle to resolve in 1,196 seconds, then in 1,152, then in 1,047 and, eventually, to 1,019 seconds. The robot is composed of six stepper motors, 3d printed frames and four usb webcams, all of which are connected to a pc. The stepper motors are powered by an Atmel-Arduino-plate.
In addition, the Linux-pc using a Python written application based on Kociemba’s Cube Explorer algorithm. The rubik’s cube itself is slightly modified, with four holes in the middle of each of the six sides are drilled. The holes are needed to allow the robot the cube to twist.
To prove that the computer really does not ” see ” how the cube looks like before the start of the program, is a camera with a white sheet covered. With the robot, like the creators Jay Flatland and Paul Rose will compete for the world record that is still officially in the name of the Lego-machine-Galaxy S4-combination.