Purdue University undergraduates designed the robot, which they have dubbed the “Purdubik’s Cube” getty A team of four students at Purdue University has built a robot that can solve a Rubik’s Cube in ...

In a hi-tech David versus Goliath story, a group of undergraduate students at Purdue University built a robot that crushed the world record for solving a Rubik’s cube once held by Mitsubishi, a ...

OpenAI, a non-profit co-founded by Elon Musk, recently unveiled its newest trick: A robot hand that can ‘solve’ Rubik’s Cube. Whether this is a feat of science or mere prestidigitation is a matter of ...

Cubli is a cube-shaped robot that can jump up, balance on a single corner and "walk" itself across a desk, all using off-the-shelf parts. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get ...

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Move over, human speedcubers. The Rubik’s Cube world has a new champion. Final-year University of Bristol Computer Science student Matt Pidden, seeking a dissertation project, discovered the robot ...

A high-speed robotic system named Purdubik’s Cube has shattered the Guinness World Record for the fastest time to solve a puzzle cube. The system, developed by a team of students at Purdue University ...

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There’s always been something so annoying about people who found the need to stack additional challenges onto solving a Rubik’s Cube quickly, whether it was doing it blindfolded or while juggling or ...