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The Star
4 days ago
- Science
- The Star
This robot can solve a Rubik's Cube in one tenth of a second
Dubbed the Purdubik's Cube, this robotic system is now capable of solving a Rubik's Cube in just 0.103 seconds. — AFP Relaxnews Students at Purdue University in the US have developed a robot Rubik's Cube champion, capable of solving the famous puzzle faster than the blink of an eye. Dubbed the Purdubik's Cube, this robotic system is now capable of solving a Rubik's Cube in just 0.103 seconds. To illustrate just how fast this is, its designers point out that a simple blink of the eye can take up to two or three times as long. The team has thus set a Guinness World Record. The previous record was held by a robot created by Mitsubishi Electric, which in 2024 took 0.305 seconds to complete its task. This technological feat is the work of four students in electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University. To achieve it, they developed a robot with advanced computer vision to recognise the colours of the cube's different faces. They then had to develop tailor-made algorithms to optimise the puzzle solving time, while taking great care to ensure that the mechanical movements were both extremely fast and extremely precise. Most important of all, however, was to minimise the time needed between detection of the cube's initial state and execution of the movements required to solve it. A first version of Purdubik's Cube was unveiled at a student competition in 2024, and the team has been improving it ever since, culminating in this extraordinary record. Beyond this performance, it demonstrates the possibilities offered by the combination of computer vision, artificial intelligence and precision mechanics. It paves the way for future applications where speed and precision will be essential, far beyond the simple challenge of a puzzle. – AFP Relaxnews
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Rubik's Cube Record Smashed in Less Time Than It Takes to Blink
Records are there to be broken, but when it comes to the fastest time to solve a Rubik's Cube by a robot, it's difficult to see how much more progress can be made: the latest record-breaking time stands at a mind-boggling 103 milliseconds. Full credit to the new world record holders, a team of undergraduate engineering students from Purdue University in the US: Junpei Ota, Aden Hurd, Matthew Patrohay, and Alex Berta. Their achievement is official and listed on the Guinness World Records site. The new time is faster than the blink of an eye, and beats the previous record of 305 milliseconds set by a team at Mitsubishi. It was just nine years ago that the record time dropped below a second for the first time. "Before you've even realized it's solved, we've solved it," says Patrohay. "Before you even realize it's moving, we've solved it." The super-speedy robot doing the solving has been named the Purdubik's Cube, and it combines a number of different innovations. To begin with, the cube itself is redesigned and repackaged so it won't break apart while being solved. Then we have a machine vision system that's able to recognize where the colored blocks are at any one time, plus special algorithms designed by the students that work out how the blocks need to be rotated to reach a solution as efficiently as possible. The team has also been able to refine the cube so that the acceleration and deceleration of the movements are optimized for sub-millisecond control. Add it all together, and you have a machine that sets new standards for high-speed objection manipulation. "This achievement isn't just about breaking a record, it pushes the boundaries of what synthetic systems can do," says Nak-seung Patrick Hyun, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue, who mentored the students. "It brings us closer to understanding ultra-fast coordinated control systems like those found in nature." It was back in December, at a student design competition, when the Purdubik's Cube made its first public appearance. Since then the engineers behind it have pushed it to work harder and harder – even setting up a remote Bluetooth link so that anyone could set the robot a challenge by scrambling up a cube to be solved. If you're wondering how human beings compare to the bots with this particular challenge, the record for the fastest solution is an astonishing 3.05 seconds, held by 7-year-old Xuanyi Geng from China. You might be surprised at just how many related world records there are: the record for solving a puzzle cube on a bicycle, for example, is 9.03 seconds. And there's plenty of history behind the new achievement. The Rubik's Cube has been around since the 1970s, and the current world record holders were in part inspired by previous speed records. "I always say that my inspiration was a previous world record holder," says Patrohay. "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." This Laser Breakthrough Can Read Text on a Page From a Mile Away Revolutionary Contact Lenses Let Human Eyes See Invisible Light New AI Weather Tool Outperforms Global Forecasting Centers
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?
Time of India
16-05-2025
- Science
- Time of India
World's fastest cube-solving robot built by students in jaw-dropping time
Solving a Rubik's Cube can take most people anywhere from a few minutes to a small eternity. But what if it could be done before you even knew it started? That's not a hypothetical — it's exactly what four undergrads at Purdue University just achieved. And in the process, they didn't just set a new Guinness World Record — they demolished it. Meet Purdubik's Cube : a lightning-fast robotic system built by students from Purdue's Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, which now holds the official Guinness World Record for the "Fastest robot to solve a puzzle cube" — with a jaw-dropping time of 0.103 seconds. That's not just fast. That's faster than the blink of an eye. To put that in perspective, the previous world record was 0.305 seconds, set by Mitsubishi Electric engineers in Japan in May 2024. The Purdue team's creation is nearly three times faster. The students behind the speed The Purdubik's Cube team — Junpei Ota, Aden Hurd, Matthew Patrohay, and Alex Berta — officially received Guinness certification for their achievement. The students poured hours — and in some cases, paychecks from co-op rotations — into building the robot. Their hard-earned experience also helped them gain corporate sponsorships, fueling their vision. Purdubik's Cube made its public debut at SPARK, Purdue ECE's student design competition, where it took first place in December 2024. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Giao dịch CFD với công nghệ và tốc độ tốt hơn IC Markets Đăng ký Undo But the team didn't stop there. After the competition, they fine-tuned the system to perfection, blending speed, automation, and engineering precision at a level few thought possible. The robot's secret sauce? A combination of machine vision for color recognition, custom solving algorithms, and industrial-grade motion control hardware from Kollmorgen. Every movement is precisely calculated, executed with sub-millisecond control, and optimized to maximize acceleration, deceleration, and mechanical efficiency. The robot isn't just lightning-fast — it's also interactive. The team added a Bluetooth-enabled 'Smart Cube' that allows users to scramble the puzzle in real time. The robot mirrors each move, then solves the cube instantly the moment the scrambling stops. And just how fast is fast? 'We solve in 103 milliseconds,' he added. 'A human blink takes about 200 to 300 milliseconds. So, before you even realize it's moving, we've solved it.' Not just a record Behind the scenes, Nak-seung Patrick Hyun, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, mentored the student innovators. 'This achievement isn't just about breaking a record, it pushes the boundaries of what synthetic systems can do,' Hyun explained. 'It brings us closer to understanding ultra-fast coordinated control systems like those found in nature.'
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.
