Robot smashes Rubik’s Cube record with 0.38-second solve

Rubik’s Cube record. Hardware hackers Ben Katz and Jared Di Carlo have smashed the previous record for solving the Rubik’s cube robotically. Their machine solved the puzzle in 0.38 seconds—a 40-percent improvement over the previous record of 0.637. “We noticed that all of the fast Rubik’s Cube solvers were using stepper motors and thought that we could […]