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Yahoo
18-05-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
A New Robot Can Solve a Rubik's Cube Faster Than the Average Person Can Blink — Watch the Astonishing Video
A team of four students at Purdue University has built a robot that can solve a Rubik's Cube in about one-tenth of a second The robot, which the team has dubbed the 'Purdubik's Cube,' solves the puzzle faster than most people can blink The new record smashes the previous record (nearly four-tenths of a second) set by engineers in Japan in 2024A team of students from Purdue University has created a robot that can solve a Rubik's Cube faster than the average person can blink. Matthew Patrohay, Junpei Ota, Aden Hurd and Alex Berta are students at Purdue's Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in West Lafayette, Ind., and their machine can solve a Rubik's Cube in about a tenth of a second. 'We solve in 103 milliseconds. A human blink takes about 200 to 300 milliseconds. So, before you even realize it's moving, we've solved it,' Patrohay said in a profile on Purdue's website. The robot, which the team has dubbed the 'Purdubik's Cube,' was awarded 'fastest robot to solve a puzzle cube" by Guinness World Records in April. It solves the cube nearly three times faster than the previous record-holding robot, which was set by Mitsubishi Electric engineers in Japan in May 2024. In the Purdue profile, Patrohay revealed that he had wanted to build a machine that would smash the Rubik's Cube solve time since he was in high school. 'I always say that my inspiration was a previous world record holder,' he said. 'Back in high school, I saw a video of MIT students solving the cube in 380 milliseconds. I thought, 'That's a really cool project. I'd love to try and beat it someday.' Now here I am at Purdue — proving we can go even faster.' The team credits their school's co-op program — which enables Purdue students to attain real-world experience in industries related to their fields of study — with helping them get the Purdubik's Cube project off the ground. 'Our team came together because of the co-op program,' Hurd explained. 'It helped us build not only the friendships that led to this collaboration, but also the professional and technical skills we needed to actually pull it off." And how, exactly, does the robot work? According to the university, the Purdubik's Cube uses 'machine vision for color recognition,' along with 'custom solving algorithms' to optimize execution time. Every movement is also highly refined and 'precisely coordinated' in order to make each and every movement as fast as possible. Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Additionally, the team designed an interactive element to the model, which enables users to scramble the cube tube via Bluetooth, as well as press a button to then watch the machine solve the puzzle. The record for the fastest human time to solve a Rubik's Cube was set by Max Park of Cerritos, Calif., with a time of just over three seconds. Read the original article on People
Hindustan Times
17-05-2025
- Science
- Hindustan Times
‘Blink and you'll miss it': Robot in US solves Rubik's Cube in 0.103 seconds, smashes $80 billion corporation's record
A group of students from a US university has surprised and shocked people by creating a robot that can solve a Rubik's Cube faster than you can blink. In a video, the robot solves the puzzle in 0.103 seconds. 'Fastest robot to solve a puzzle cube 0.103 seconds by Matthew Patrohay, Junpei Ota, Aden Hurd, and Alex Berta,' Guinness World Records (GWR) wrote while posting the video. 'We solve in 103 milliseconds,' Matthew Patrohay from the Purdubik's Cube team at Purdue University told GWR. 'A human blink takes about 200 to 300 milliseconds. So, before you even realize it's moving, we've solved it,' Patrohay added. In 2024, a team of engineers at Mitsubishi Electric Corporation created a robot that solved the puzzle in 0.305 seconds. According to the New York Post, the mammoth Japanese corporation is worth nearly $80 billion. The record of robots solving cubes has been popular for years. However, the first time the one-second barrier was broken was in 2016. A post shared by Guinness World Records (@guinnessworldrecords) 'If you actually time a blink the moment it starts, you literally can't see it move. That's amazing, congrats to everyone involved,' an individual wrote. Another joked, 'Respect for the Rubik's cube for actually getting solved and not disintegrating into a million pieces.' A third added, 'I am more fascinated by the engineering needed to build that cube to withstand such a high acceleration.' A fourth remarked, 'I don't understand how it moved so quickly and did not damage it! This is crazy.' In 1974, Hungarian architecture professor Ernő Rubik created a three-dimensional cube to teach his students about three-dimensional spaces. That cube later became one of the most famous toys, used by millions worldwide. In 2024, Rubik's Cube celebrated its 50th anniversary. What are your thoughts on this Rubik's Cube video shared by Guinness World Records?
NDTV
16-05-2025
- Science
- NDTV
Watch: This Robot Can Solve Rubik's Cube Before You Might Blink
A group of students at Purdue University, Indiana, USA, have smashed the previous Guinness World Record of solving a Rubik's cube once held by Mitsubishi, a Japanese conglomerate worth nearly $80 billion. The high-speed robot is called the Purdubik's Cube, which managed to solve the puzzle cube in a blink-it-and-you-miss-it 0.103 milliseconds. Matthew Patrohay, the lead of the project, was inspired by the previous record holder and wanted to make his own attempt at the record. After gathering his friends, Junpei Ota, Aden Hurd, and Alex Berta, the team managed to beat Mitsubishi's record by two-tenths of a second. "To put it in perspective, the human blink is 200 to 300 milliseconds. So we're significantly faster than that. Human reaction time is about .200 milliseconds as well, so we're faster than that," said Mr Patrohay. Talking about the challenges in developing the machine, the researchers said they had to redesign the cube so that it could withstand the tremendous force required to solve it within milliseconds. 'The cubes themselves just disintegrate,' said Mr Patrohay. 'The pieces themselves snap in half and fall apart.' Social media reacts The video of the machine in action has gone viral on social media, inviting puzzled reactions from the users, who cannot believe the cube was solved in a blink. "WOW. I literally blinked and missed it the first time. Absolutely insane," said one user while another added: "I had to watch it a couple of times because it looked like they just clipped it to show the finished cube." A third commented: "It is even more impressive to me that they built a cube capable of being solved that quickly without disintegrating." NEW: Purdue students demolish the Guinness World Record for fastest Rubik's cube-solving robot, solving the puzzle cube in just 0.103 seconds, faster than the blink of an eye. Insane. The previous record was set by Mitsubishi Electric engineers in 2024 in Japan with a speed of… — Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 15, 2025 The rapid machine was first unveiled at SPARK, Purdue's Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) student design competition, where it took home first place in December 2024. The team continued to build on the success by pushing the limits of automation and high-speed computing. The achievement is made more remarkable by the fact that Purdubik's Cube is highly intuitive and interactive. Using a Bluetooth-enabled "Smart Cube," users can scramble the puzzle in real time, and the robot mirrors every move, solving the cube instantly once the scramble is complete.
Indian Express
16-05-2025
- Science
- Indian Express
Faster than a blink: 4 students set Guinness World Record with Rubik's Cube-solving robot
Imagine a Rubik's Cube being solved faster than the blink of an eye? Unimaginable, right? Four students from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America, have achieved this feat using a robot they built. According to NBC News, this student team created a robot to solve a Rubik's cube in just 0.103 seconds, setting a Guinness World Record last month. Their Rubik's Cube, aptly named 'Purdubik's Cube,' surpassed the previous record set by Mitsubishi Electric engineers in May 2024, whose robot could solve the puzzle in 0.305 seconds. The video shared by Guinness World Records on their Instagram account is going viral due to the lightning speed at which the robot completes the puzzle. At the beginning of the video, the robot solves the cube at regular speed, making the rapid resolution almost unbelievable. Later in the clip, it is slowed down to reveal the intricate workings of the robot as it solves the cube. The video has garnered 4.8 million views and is posted with the caption, 'Fastest robot to solve a puzzle cube: 0.103 seconds by Matthew Patrohay, Junpei Ota, Aden Hurd, and Alex Berta of @ In the comments section, the Guinness World Records account said, 'Blink and you'll miss it!' A student named Matthew Patrohay from Purdue University's Purdubik's Cube team told the GSW, 'We solve it in 103 milliseconds. A human blink takes about 200 to 300 milliseconds. So, before you even realise it's moving, we've already solved it.' A post shared by Guinness World Records (@guinnessworldrecords) Responding to the video, one user commented, 'If you actually time a blink the moment it starts, you literally can't see it move. That's amazing, congrats to everyone involved.' Another user wrote, 'Respect for the Rubik's cube for actually getting solved and not disintegrating in a million pieces.' A third user provided insight into the cube's mechanics, saying, 'By the look of it, the robot is aiming for a FMC solving rather than a speedcubing one. Speedcubing consists in resolving it the fastest way possible by using moves that are easier to do with your fingers. FMC is the Fewest Move Challenges. Since a machine isn't limited by fingers' movement, FMC becomes speedcubing. This is quite interesting.' The robot, located on the Purdue campus in West Lafayette, uses machine vision for colour recognition, custom-solving algorithms optimised for execution time and industrial-grade motion control hardware, according to a Purdue University press release. The team, consisting of engineering students Junpei Ota, Aden Hurd, Matthew Patrohay, and Alex Berta, initially designed their robot for the Spark Challenge, a design competition held in December 2024 at Purdue's Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. After winning first place, they continued to enhance the robot with sponsorship support from Purdue's Institute for Control, Optimisation, and Networks as reported by NBC News.
