When I read about the Pidden brothers and their record-breaking robot, my reaction was equal parts awe and competitive instinct. As a cuber myself, I've spent more hours than I care to count staring ...

Blink and you'll miss it: A Purdue University student engineering team has built a robot that can solve a Rubik's cube in one-tenth of a second — faster than the average time it takes to blink an eye.

Quicker than a snap of the fingers it doesn’t have, a robot has shattered the world speed record for solving a Rubik’s Cube, completing the puzzle in just 0.305 seconds. This record time is roughly ...